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Security chief of Canadian mine subsidiary found guilty of indigenous Guatemalan murder
THE family of a Guatemalan indigenous community leader has edged closer to justice after a court accepted the guilty plea of a security chief for a subsidiary of a Canadian-based mining company for his murder.
Mynor Padilla was found guilty on Wednesday of homicide for the 2009 fatal shooting of Adolfo Ich, who had led community opposition to the reopening of the Fenix nickel mine, the largest in the country, outside the town of El Estor.
At the time of the killings it was operated by the Guatemalan Nickel Company (CGN), a subsidiary of the Toronto-based Hudbay Minerals, which also faces two lawsuits in Ontario, Canada over allegations that it has been involved in a string of abuses against those that oppose mining projects.
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