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Article

31 Oct 2017

Author:
Grahame Russell, Upside Down World (USA)

Q’eqchi people lawsuit in Canada & Guatemala over alleged rape & violence against Hudbay could change corporate impunity, says journalist

“Is Justice Possible in Canada or Guatemala for Hudbay Minerals/CGN Mining Repression?”, 31 Oct 2017

Every now and then, there is a community  struggle that manages to break through the complex, fortified barriers of global corporate impunity…The Hudbay Minerals/CGN lawsuits in Canada, and the parallel but separate criminal trial in Guatemala, are one such struggle…While an eventual trial in Canada, and eventual re-trial in Guatemala … these lawsuits are already changing the longstanding legal and political reality of corporate impunity, and immunity from legal accountability…Thirteen Q’eqchi’ plaintiffs, suing Hudbay Minerals and CGN …for mining related repression, will travel to Toronto (… in November 2017…[and]in early 2018) to be deposed by Hudbay lawyers…It is the first time a court has ruled that a Canadian company can be tried and held liable in Canadian courts for harms and violations in other countries...