Since the beginning of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's administration (AMLO), a package of infrastructure projects has been announced with the aim of promoting the country's economic development, among which...
Mexico City, May 23, 2017.– A coalition of civil society organizations has requested that U.S. and Canadian securities regulators investigate whether Canadian-based company, Almaden Minerals, violated the disclosure...
The gold and silver open pit mine IXTACA PROJECT, on its advanced exploration stage, is located in the Ixtacamaxtitlán municipality, in the SIERRA NORTE region of the Mexican State of PUEBLA. It occupies the...
THIS COMMUNITY-LED HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACT ASSESSMENT (HRIA) AIMS TO IDENTIFY, MEASURE, AND PREVENT THE IXTACA PROJECT’S NEGATIVE IMPACTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS. More specifically, the HRIA demonstrates the discrepancy between...
On April 17, 2016, in Santa María Zotoltepec, Puebla, the main results of the human rights impact assessment (HRIA) were presented. It was conducted by the Project on Organizing, Development, Education, and...
November 2015 Extractive projects in the Sierra Norte of Puebla are imposed without consultation and with repression and violence Mexico has granted concessions totaling 331,729 hectares to private companies without...
24 February 2014 Paradigmatic Cases of BNDES Investment in South America: Needs and Opportunities to Improve Internal Policies A civil society publication by: Asociación Ambiente y Sociedad (AAS) (Colombia)...