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A community consultation on open-pit mining exploration and exploitation was carried out on Saturday in Jacaltenango municipality – in Huehuetenango department, Guatemala. Reporter Jose Bernardino Francisco from Radio Stereo Azul told Real World Radio that the result of the consultation was against mining activity. The reporter said over 27,000 people expressed their opposition to mining exploitation in Saturday’s consultation. “This shows that noone agrees with the presence of mining corporations in this Guatemalan region”, he said. José Bernardino Francisco exposed that in all consultations carried out Huehuetenango, the communities expressed their opposition to mining activity.

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