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1. The hidden connection between a US steel company and the controversial Los Pinares mine in Honduras: (Regional News); ... Honduran businessman Lenir Pérez and his wife Ana Isabel Facussé, owners of Inversiones Los Pinares -- a company that is waging battle against the residents of a town called Guapinol, who oppose the company' ...; Created on 28 November 2020
2. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... who have opposed the mine have been killed, putting its owner, Inversiones Los Pinares, at the centre of a deadly environmental conflict in the mineral-rich Bajo Aguán region. Local communities are concerned ...; Created on 06 May 2021
3. The trial for Guapinol water defender Jeremías Martínez begins today in Tegucigalpa, Honduras: (Mining and Human Rights); ... one of the 8 defenders of water and life.” Jeremías is one of the defenders who has been imprisoned for protecting the Guapinol River from being polluted by the Inversiones Los Pinares mine. He has ...; Created on 22 February 2021
4. Honduran justice denies defenders of the Guapinol river to wait for their trial in freedom: (Regional News); ... Los Pinares company property owned by couple Lenir Pérez and Ana Facussé, son-in-law and daughter, respectively, of the late businessman Miguel Facussé Barjum, were initially charged with the crimes of ...; Created on 28 December 2020
5. How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources: (Mining and Human Rights); ... consultation inside a protected national park in a process mired by irregularities, according to international experts. In response to criminal complaints filed by the company Inversiones Los Pinares, ...; Created on 07 October 2020
6. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Committee in Defense of Common and Public Goods were victims of a defamation campaign while they were in Washington to receive an international human rights award for their environmental activism. Pinares ...; Created on 25 September 2020
7. One year on and Honduran Environmental Defenders still in jail without trial: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Honduras, turned into a river of mud. The muddied waters could be traced to the activities of a mining company, ‘Inversión Los Pinares.’ Unknown to the communities of Guapinol, the company had been granted ...; Created on 01 September 2020
8. The lawyers in the Guapinol case reject denial of appeal stating that it was copied and pasted form a different resolution: (Mining and Human Rights); ... after the Los Pinares mining company and the Public Prosecutor's Office filed false charges against them. At the end of their initial hearing on September 1, 2019, Judge Lisseth Vallecillo ordered pre-trial ...; Created on 24 August 2020
9. The Honduran government intensifies persecution against defenders of the Guapinol River: (Regional News); ... who have been in preventive prison for 11 months, for the alleged crimes of aggravated arson to the detriment of the Los Pinares mining company and deprivation of liberty against Santos Corea, the head ...; Created on 20 August 2020
10. Legal Defense: Honduran Courts Rule to Sustain Political Persecution in Guapinol Case: (Regional News); ... Honduras who have been criminalized by the Inversiones Los Pinares mining company and the Attorney General’s Office were notified that their appeals to dismiss the case were unsuccessful. The resolution, ...; Created on 18 August 2020
11. Pandemic fuels mining extraction in Latin America: (Regional News); ... at large. "The mine is owned by the Honduran company Pinares Investment which is linked to the Facussé family. The Facussé family, one of the most powerful in the country, has investments in palm plantations ...; Created on 09 August 2020
12. Defending Land and Water from Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19: (Regional News); ... company Pinares Investment. Despite multiple appeals, their lawyers have received no response. Meanwhile, their families are not allowed to visit and there are severe water shortages in the prisons. In ...; Created on 23 July 2020
13. German parlamentarians demand justice for Honduran environmental activists: (Regional News); ... of the Guapinol community in the north of the country and Inversiones Los Pinares, a mining company, is prototypical for the situation in Honduras. For years, the community has been fighting against the ...; Created on 20 April 2020
14. CEJIL requests revocation of preventive detention of Guapinol water defenders: (Regional News); ... detention. The process faced by the defenders resulted from a series of peaceful demonstrations carried out in the municipality of Tocoa, Colón, in order to stop the operations of the Los Pinares mining ...; Created on 20 April 2020
15. International report finds that the Honduran government violates the rights of Tocoa's environmental defender: (Regional News); ... of the ASP I and ASP II mining concessions owned by Inversiones los Pinares / Ecotek mining. The research team composed by Dr. Bernie Hammond and Dr. Amanda Grzyb (Western University, Canada), Dr. Michael ...; Created on 20 April 2020
16. Tocoa is declared free of mining, but controversial mining project remains active: (Regional News); ... because the local authorities excused themselves from making decisions around the conflicting project of the company Inversiones Los Pinares. Far from listening to the community´s demands, the town hall ...; Created on 26 December 2019
17. Honduran Land Defenders Receive the prestigious Letelier-Moffit award in Washington: (Regional News); ... Water and Life" to protest the irregular allocation of mining exploitation permits, known as ASP and ASP1, to Inversiones los Pinares mining company, formerly known as Emco Mining. The company is owned ...; Created on 24 October 2019
18. How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources: (Mining and Human Rights); ... experts. In response to criminal complaints filed by the company Inversiones Los Pinares, 32 people, including one man who died three years before the alleged incidents, have been charged with multiple ...; Created on 07 October 2020
19. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Common and Public Goods were victims of a defamation campaign while they were in Washington to receive an international human rights award for their environmental activism. Pinares Investments, the company ...; Created on 25 September 2020

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