'No to mining': activists demand closure of Guatemala gold mine

Metapan, El Salvador (AFP) April 20, 2024

Waving banners and shouting "no to mining," environmental activists gathered in small boats on a lake between El Salvador and Guatemala on Friday calling for the closure of a Canadian-owned gold mine. Residents fear that the Cerro Blanco site, which has been granted permission by Guatemala to convert from an underground to open-pit mine, will contaminate Lake Guija. "All these extraction