Guatemala human rights official protests NV mining
Guatemala human rights official protests NV mining
The Associated Press
Friday, June 28, 2013 | 12:05 p.m.
Mining critics from Guatemala joined opponents of the revival of open pit mining of northern Nevada's historic Comstock in a protest highlighting shared concerns on the impacts on their communities a hemisphere apart.
Alvaro Sandoval Palencia of the Guatemala Human Rights Commission was among the more than dozen protesters who picketed in Reno Thursday outside a meeting of shareholders of the Comstock Mining Inc. at the Nevada Museum of Art.
Palencia says he became an activist when a mining company began work near his home without notifying his community in La Puya, Guatemala.
Joe McCarthy of the Comstock Residents Association says La Puya has become their "sister community" in their fight to halt mining in the National Historic Landmark at Virginia City and Gold Hill southeast of Reno.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013/jun/28/nv-comstock-mining-protest/#ixzz2XXoJeaXd
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