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Central American Nickel is reported to be obtaining the Fenix Nickel Project in Guatemala with a substantial discount from the US government.

A trove of internal documents related to Solway Investment Group’s Fenix mine reveals bribery, pollution, and troubling efforts to repress dissent.

UNBC researchers’ book says media and public are paying too little attention to the toll of environmental destruction, displacement and deaths.

Guatemala: Mine's ex-security chief pleads guilty to murder of Indigenous leader "Guatemala mine's ex-security chief convicted of Indigenous leader's murder" 7 Jan 2012 A judge in Guatemala has accepted a guilty plea by the former head of security at Central America’s largest nickel mine who was on trial for killing an Indigenous leader, in a rare conviction over human rights violations allegedly linked to Canadian-owned mining companies in the region. Mynor Padilla was found guilty on Wednesday of homicide for the 2009 fatal shooting of Adolfo Ich, a Maya Q’eqchi’ teacher and ...

“It is not going to bring my husband back, but I feel satisfied.” Transnational mining corporations, most of them Canadian, their personnel, and state security forces have been accused by human rights groups of a litany of abuses in Central America, including the killings of mine opponents. Prosecutions are rare, and criminal convictions of mining company personnel are almost unheard of in the region. Patricia Quinto, who represented Choc, a joint plaintiff in the trial, said that the verdict set an important precedent in the country. “The judge noted mining companies have generated co...