Victory for Guatemala's Mayan People
Victory for Guatemala's Mayan People
Published 15 January 2017 (9 hours 9 minutes ago)
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Guatemala’s Supreme Court has suspended the construction of two major hydroelectric plants fiercely opposed by the region’s Mayan people.
Citing irregularities in the community consultation process, the president of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ), Silvia Patricia Valdés, ruled against the construction of the Oxec I and Oxec II hydroelectric plants. Until that issue is resolved, she said, the operation remains suspended.
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Opposition to those and other projects have been ongoing since October of last year.
At the time, Indigenous people from the department of Alta Verapaz, in the north of Guatemala, marched to the capital to denounce a group of companies that had practically exhausted the entire Cahabon river, leaving the community without access to water.
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