Mining is at the center of a campaign of repression and violence targeting environmentalists and human rights defenders in Guatemala. The government is violently quashing opposition, and foreign ...

Guatemala’s Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM) will revise all recent decisions made on the granting of mining licences, according to reports from local media. Víctor Hugo Ventura, the MEM’s ...

Inspired by El Salvador’s Bitcoin Beach, a town in Guatemala is focused on cleaning its lake by diverting used cooking oil to bitcoin miners. A circular bitcoin economy in Guatemala is using resources ...

The protesters' lawyers said a group had assembled at Tahoe's Escobal mine in southeastern Guatemala in April 2013 ... Canada - one of the world's major mining nations - had then refused to ...