A nonviolent protest on March 15 at Fortuna Silver´s Trinidad/Cuzcatlán mine in San José del Progreso turned tense, when pro-mine groups surrounded and fired shots toward local community activists, national and international human rights observers and journalists…Some 200 people gathered to symbolically close the…mine to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the assassination of community activist Bernardo Vásquez…During the…protest…[the demonstrators] reiterated their demands for the immediate closure of the…mine… effective measures to guarantee the human rights of community defenders, and for Canadian and Mexican authorities to investigate and bring to justice those responsible for the violence in the community…[and] the intellectual authors of the violence that has left four dead…Intervention by state human rights officials apparently helped diffuse a volatile situation that likely would have ended tragically…[Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Minera Cuzcatlan/Fortuna Silver to respond. The company declined to do so.]