Argentina: Indigenous communities opposing lithium mining face threats & attacks
Résumé
Date indiquée: 1 Jan 2012
Lieu: Argentine
Entreprises
Minera Exar SA (joint venture of Lithium Americas Corp, Ganfeng Lithium, and JEMSE) - Parent CompanyProjets
Cauchari-Olaroz - OperationConcerné
Nombre total de personnes concernées: Chiffre inconnu
Peuples indigènes: ( Chiffre inconnu - Argentine , Exploitation minière , Gender not reported )Enjeux
Intimidation et menaces , Défenseurs des droits de l'hommeRéponse
Response sought: Non
Type de source: NGO
"White Gold: The violent water dispute", 22 April 2020
In the Jujuy puna, in northwestern Argentina, thirty-three indigenous communities of Salinas Grandes and Laguna de Guayatayoc resisted the advance of lithium mining a decade ago. Neither the judicial conflicts nor the threats that are current in the province paralyzed their claim: they defend water, they want to sustain their way of life linked to the salt flats and they demand that the companies that put the area at water risk leave their territories... For other inhabitants of the area, the mining companies are synonymous with dispossession and new violence scenarios. The seven families comprising the Apacheta Collective were victims of threats and harassment in 2012, when one of them was beaten up and ended up in the hospital with several blows to his body. This was Hipólito Guzmán, Carlos Guzmán’s brother... Hipólito was also part of the Assembly and rural commissioner of Susques. Shortly before the attack, he had already reported threats and verbal aggressions due to his anti-mining position...