We've been posting some updates on our facebook page as events were unfolding, and here's a photo-essay by documentary photographer and journalist James Rodriguez, who writes:
After two years and two months of peacefully blocking the entrance to U.S.-based Kappes, Cassiday & Associates (KCA) El Tambor gold mine, local residents of San Jose del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc were violently evicted by Guatemalan Police forces in order to introduce heavy machinery inside the industrial site. Led by the local women, members of the La Puya resistance prayed and sang until they were faced with tear gas. Numerous locals were injured and detained.
Click here to see the full photo-essay.
Rodriguez does amazing work. You can check out his website or follow him on facebook.
