Qualifying as Canadian: Economic Diplomacy, Mining, and Racism at the Escobal Mine in Guatemala
Part Two: Dispossession Abroad
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In Chapter 8, authors Caren Weisbart, Jennifer Moore and Charlotte Connolly examines the Canadian mining industry in Guatemala. The chapter explores events surrounding the role of Canadian economic diplomacy on behalf of Tahoe Resources, the period between 2012 and 2014, the Canadian government’s support for Tahoe Resources at different times, Canadian diplomatic support to fight hikes in mining rents in Guatemala and to help obtain an operating permit, as well as Canada’s discriminatory diplomacy in Guatemala, Canada’s role in fighting the Indigenous Xinka peoples resistance, the Escobal project, and the predatory practices used by Canadian mining operating abroad.
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Contributors
Caren Weisbart
Caren Weisbart is a PhD candidate in environmental studies at York University and a research associate at the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (cerlac). Her research focuses on the statecorporate nexus as it relates to the Canadian state’s support of the mining industry. For over fifteen years, she has been an active member of the Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Network (bts), serving on the coordinating committee, and has been involved in Guatemalan and transnational efforts to fight against the harmful impacts of Canadian mining. She currently organizes with the Mining Injustice Solidarity Network (misn).
Jennifer Moore
Jennifer Moore is a writer, researcher, and organizer with a critical interest in Canadian foreign policy in Latin America, particularly in the mining sector. For over a decade, she has reported on the impacts of Canadian mining in Latin America and collaborated with communities, organizations and networks fighting to protect their land, water and wellbeing from mining in the region. She previously coordinated the Latin America Program at MiningWatch Canada and is an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C., where she contributes to their Mining and Trade project.
Charlotte Connolly
Charlotte Connolly is a research assistant with the Justice and Corporate Accountability Project, a transnational and community-based legal clinic that assists in holding states and corporations to account by offeringlegal knowledge to communities that are negatively affected by research extraction. She holds a master of arts in natural resources and environmental studies from the University of Northern British Columbia and is completing a juris doctor at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University.
