Americas Policy Group

Photo credit: Sin Etiquetas +593. Protesters flood the streets in Cuenca, Ecuador for the protection of water and the paramo de Kimsakocha, carrying signs and banners in the massive September 16th protested dubbed the 5th River.

Photo credit: Sin Etiquetas +593. Protesters carry a large demon effigy with the name of the mining company threatening their water source on the front: Dundee precious metals.

Photo credit: Accion Ecologica.

🙌 PEOPLE POWER!

This Saturday, the Ecuadorian government announced that it has revoked the environmental license for the Loma Larga project!

This is the result of community power and peaceful resistance!
DPM Metals must abide by the law, listen to communities and definitively cancel the project!

Excellent reporting on the visit of courageous Xinka leaders and the massive support they have received in Canada as they call for respect for their rights to self-determination AND their decision denying consent to Canadian #mining that threatens their lands, water & safety.
#PuebloXinkaDijoNo

Guatemalan Indigenous Leaders Urge Closure of B.C.-Owned Mine At a news conference in Ottawa, Marisol Guerra and Marta Muñoz, two Xinka women from Guatemala, call on the Canadian government to support the closure of Vancouver-based Pan American Silver’s Escobal ...

Powerful call from Xinka leaders, civil society orgs & Green Party leader Elizabeth May ALL calling on #Canada and Vancouver-based Pan American Silver to respect #IndigenousPeoplesRights and the Xinka's decision to reject consent for the Escobal mine in #Guatemala. www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...

🚨TOMORROW Learn about a historic consultation by the Xinka, amid terrifying repression, and how Vancouver-based Pan American Silver has responded.
#IndigenousPeoplesRights #IndigenousSovereignty #mining #Guatemala #PuebloXinkaDijoNo #solidarity

🚫"No" means "NO"! 🚫

TAKE ACTION ✊🏽 Tell Vancouver-based Pan American Silver they must respect the rights of the Xinca Indigenous people and permanently close the Escobal mine in #Guatemala that threatens them.

#PuebloXincaDijoNo #XincaPeopleSayNo

Sign the petition ⏬

NEXT WEEK! Don't miss a conversation with Xinca leaders about why they say NO to Canadian company Pan American Silver's Guatemala mine.

📅 September 23, 5:30-7:30pm
🏘️ Faculty of Social Sciences, uOttawa, Room 5028

RSVP ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/canada-mus...

#PuebloXinkaDijoNo #XinkaPeopleSayNo

#Ecuador Over 90,000 people reportedly took part in yesterday's march demanding a stop to a controversial mining project by Canada's Dundee Precious Metals in an ecologically sensitive paramo that provides drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people. Rights and the rule of law are at stake.

The APG is honoured to co-host this important event with Xinca women leaders from Guatemala. Join us to hear about their courageous struggle for self-determination and protection of the rights of their people, threatened by the Canadian-owned Escobal mine.
#PuebloXinkaDijoNo #XincaPeopleSayNo

On April 24-25, APG had its first in-person AGM in over 5 years!
Thank you to PSAC - AFPC for hosting our meeting, our panellists and guests and the 20 member organizations who joined us for this important meeting.
Minutes from the meeting are available on our website:
www.apg-gopa.com/events

The @UBCIC & representatives of the Xinka Parliament of Guatemala will call on the Canadian government & Pan American Silver to honor the Xinka’s decision to deny consent for reopening the Escobal mine.

📺 TODAY, May 28, 10 a.m. PT / 1 PM EST

Join us 🔗 shorturl.at/ZrK1Q

We, civil society organizations and representatives of social movements in Canada, stand in solidarity with the Xinka Parliament. We call on Guatemalan authorities, Pan American Silver and the Canadian government to:

Open Letter: 27 Canadian Organizations and Coalitions Support Xinka People’s Right to Self-Determination over Canadian Escobal Mine

▶️https://shorturl.at/4FoXN

APG expresses its heartfelt solidarity with CECG and REDCONPAZ in light of the violent break-in to their offices and stealing of information on the night of Saturday, 26, and early morning of Sunday, 27.

⛓️‍💥Read our statement here: www.apg-gopa.com/statementsle...

After a historic seven year consultation, today the Xinka Parliament released the long-awaited decision on the Escobal Silver Mine - they withhold their consent to the project!

Read more: www.miningwatch.ca/news/2025/5/...

Event poster: Image of protesters holding the panamanian flag.

Coming up in one week!

The fight for permanent closure: Panamanians address renewed efforts to reopen a Canadian copper mine.

🗓️ Wed, May 7
⏲️ 11am PST/ 1pm Panamá/ 2pm EST

Register now: bit.ly/fight-for-cl...

✉️On April 29, APG sent an open letter to the Canadian minister of foreign affairs, Melanie Joly, in concern over the arrests of the ancestral Authorities in Guatemala in April 23.

🔗Read the full letter on our website: www.apg-gopa.com/statementsle...

"Laura Ávalos, una de las representantes del @apgopa.bsky.social, que apoya al ejido desde Canadá [afirmó] que "este es un momento crítico para que la comunidad internacional y en particular las organizaciones canadienses, se solidaricen con el ejido de Carrizalillo."

The hazardous machinations of Canada’s mining elite As the dangers that mining-affected communities and environment defenders continue to mount in Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador and other countries, Canadian mining companies such as Equinox Gold confirm the...

An important read by Jennifer Moore @ips-dc.org about ongoing threats to the Ejido de Carrizalillo, upon whose lands the Canadian mining company Equinox Gold operates its Los Filos gold mine. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

Conflicts of Interest and Sovereignty at Stake: The Ecuador-Canada FTA FTA: Warnings of increased environmental degradation, human rights violations, and a potential clash with Ecuador’s constitution loom.

Ecuador's new trade deal with Canada isn't just controversial—it's a conflict of interest. President Noboa's family has major stakes in Canadian mining while the FTA includes investor protections banned by Ecuador's constitution.

Today, 98 organizations and coalitions from 12 countries, including MiningWatch Canada, sent a letter to Vancouver-headquartered Equinox Gold $EQX in solidarity with ejido de Carrizalillo, Mexico

Check out the letter here👉 shorturl.at/J2VXg
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From Canada we stand in solidarity with ejido deCarrizalillo, Guerrero #Mexico. We demand Equinox Gold's CEO to persue respectful negotiations

Signed by Americas Policy Group @apgopa.bsky.social, @miningwatch.bsky.social, @mininginjustice.bsky.social, @canadiansmanitoba.bsky.social

Canadian Unions Write To The Canadian Government Expressing Deep Concern About Canada-Ecuador Free Trade Agreement

Check out their statement here: shorturl.at/yEsZX

'Yes to life, no to mining': Sisters in El Salvador join church's protest Sisters are participating in the church's campaign: "Yes to life, no to mining," calling for the restoration of a law against metal mining in El Salvador.

'The mining thing, it's going to be like the Spaniards, who took the gold. Nobody believes they are going to share it with everyone. That's a lie.' —Natividad Chicas Rivera www.globalsistersreport.org/environment/... via @ncronline.bsky.social

International Allies Against Mining in El Salvador condemns decision to retry ADES Santa Marta Five Water Defenders and Bukele’s attempts to overturn mining ban - Institute for Policy Studies The decision to grant a retrial presents further evidence of the deterioration of independence within El Salvador’s judicial system, and its politicization to punish and weaken the struggle to uphold ...

Update on the decision to retry #SantaMarta5 and Bukele’s stated desire to pursue mining development “International Allies Against Mining in El Salvador‬⁩ condemns decision to retry ADES Santa Marta Five Water Defenders and Bukele’s attempts to overturn mining ban” ips-dc.org/release-inte...

Photo: A hand-printed sign is posted on a wall in Sigchos in March 2024 when communities filed a court injunction against the advancement of the environmental consultation. The sign reads: "Cultivating the land is a more powerful source of wealth than the extraction of minerals." Source: Associación Flor de Caña.

PRESS RELEASE: "100+ Organizations Voice Deep Concern Over Violence to Advance Canada’s Atico Mining Project in Ecuador" via MiningWatch and the Alliance for Human Rights in Ecuador.
Read more --> miningwatch.ca/news/2024/12...

APG sends letter to Minister NG amid highly disturbing reports of harms linked to Canadian mine projects in Ecuador, "we are deeply concerned about the aggravating effect of Canada-Ecuador free trade negotiations and a gender impact assessment that has gaping holes".

On December 2, we sent an open letter to Minister Hon Mary Ng, concerning the recent Gender Impact Assessment by Canada during the Canada-Ecuador Free trade agreements. You can read the letter on our website here: www.apg-gopa.com/statementsle...