Moonflower Enterprises

MOONFLOWER ENTERPRISES IS CLOSING AS OF JANUARY 1, 2012

moonflower — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 00:42:24 +0000

MOONFLOWER ENTERPRISES IS CLOSING AS OF JANUARY 1, 2012.

Please check back at the end of each month for super deals on our remaining inventory.

Goldcorp mine in Guatemala ordered to shut

moonflower — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:45:13 +0000

Goldcorp (G-T45.44-0.96-2.07%) Marlin mine in Guatemala has been dealt an adverse ruling from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which has called on the project to be shut pending an investigation into alleged human rights abuses and environmental problems. Read more

Former Guatemalan Special Forces Soldier Indicted for Making False Statements on Immigration Forms Regarding 1982 Massacre of Guatemalan Villagers

moonflower — Sat, 29 May 2010 23:47:51 +0000

Thursday May 20, 2010.

A former Guatemalan special forces soldier was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Palm Beach County, Fla., for lying on his naturalization application about his participation in a 1982 massacre at a Guatemalan village known as Dos Erres, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer for the Southern District of Florida and Assistant Secretary John Morton of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Read More

Scientists Find Elevated Levels of Potentially Toxic Metals in Some Guatemalans Living Near Canadian-owned Mine,

davem — Sat, 22 May 2010 03:06:46 +0000

Environmental health scientists from the University of Michigan find that a sample of Guatemalans who live near a controversial gold and silver mine in the country’s western highlands have higher levels of potentially toxic heavy metals in their urine and blood than a sample of residents who live farther from the mine. Read more . . .

The Second Killing of Pablo Bac: Deafened by Canadian Silence and Impunity in Guatemala

davem — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 03:27:59 +0000

FROM THE FATHER …

In 1981, Pablo Bac, a Mayan Qeqchi man from the community of Chichipate (municipality of El Estor, department of Izabal, Guatemala) was disappeared and killed. Read more . . .

Coca-Cola Sued for ‘Campaign of Violence’ in Guatemala

davem — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:20:13 +0000

All over the world, tabletops, football stadiums, and corner shop windows are branded with its iconographic white-on-red, swirling text. Coca-Cola isn’t just a product, it’s an institution and a corporate behemoth. And right now it is facing a lawsuit in New York brought by two bottling plant workers from Guatemala. Read more

Disappeared But Not Forgotten: A Guatemalan Community Achieves a Landmark Verdict

moonflower — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 16:29:50 +0000

On August 31, 2009 a tribunal in Chimaltenango, Guatemala, sentenced former military commissioner Felipe Cusanero Coj to 150 years in prison. Cusanero’s conviction for surreptitiously kidnapping and murdering six Guatemalan citizens in the early 1980s, keeping their whereabouts and fate concealed, marks the first time in Guatemalan history that a court has found a member of the military guilty of a crime against humanity. Read more

The Truth Under the Earth: The Relationship Between Genocide and Femicide in Guatemala

moonflower — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:13:38 +0000

The war in Guatemala has never ceased. While the Peace Accords signed in 1996 demobilized some combatants and weapons - the killing, raping and torturing continues unabated. Read more . . .

Hudbay Minerals (Canadian mining company) linked to one and possible two deadly shootings on September 27 & 28.

moonflower — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:08:02 +0000

It is reported that two people have been killed and over twenty injured in two attempted massacres, hours apart, of Maya Qeqchi people from communities attempting to defend their lands against Canadian nickel mining company HudBay Minerals. Read more . . .

Guatemala: Mines Bring No Benefits to Local People

moonflower — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:42:28 +0000

(IPS) - The new draft law on mining before the Guatemalan parliament does not strictly regulate water use and environmental protection, does not provide for community consultation, and sets royalties payable to the state at too low a level, say environmental and social organisations. Read more . . .