Zapotec Protesters Shot on Behalf of Canadian Mining Company
Submitted on January 23, 2012
January 23, 2012 - Intercontinental Cry
One Zapotec has died and another is in recovery after a group of municipal police officers and other armed men opened fire on a crowd of protesters in the municipality of San José del Progreso, Ocotlán, Oaxaca, Mexico...Cuzcatlán, a subsidiary of the Canadian mining company Fortuna Silver has already received a permit to build [a] pipeline. Opponents of the mine maintain that the permit should not have been issued because the municipal government failed to obtain the community's free, prior and informed consent.
