[Unofficial translation by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre]. The recent torrential rains in the west of the country have not only caused the swelling of rivers and waterfalls but have also meant Minerales de Occidente Yamana Gold had to discharge some of its pits into the Lara river...The local population in San Andrés, La Unión, Copán, had contacted the media alleging that the discharges were contaminating their local environment...While the journalist from La Prensa was in the area, mining staff approached and rebuked her...the company employees became aggressive, and filmed on camera the journalists and two of the San Andrés residents who were accompanying them...The company’s environmental manager, German Padilla, who had previously worked as a technical expert for Defomin, explained: “These pit solutions are not untreated – they have been treated..."