Theres little bit of a hiccup here, if its indigenous votersbeing referred to in this article below who do have a say of whether to have a
mine in their districts. Though only the San Rafael district's indigenous people, can
block it in san rafael district where THO's mine is. Regular citizens and xinca
indigenous people outside san Rafael district, voting against THO's silver mine,
can't have it shut down. Nor regular citizens inside San Rafael's district.
So who's voting in this article below referencing Jalapa and how I came to reading
it. Though like I said only indigenous Xinca people in the san rafael district where
THO's mine is, can shut down the mine.
Presumably, as I presented in this link recently, (though has to be translated and
where opening it in google chrome’s browser will do that), the san rafael district has
no xinca indigenous people or not enough to warrant a shut down of THO's mine.
https://republica.gt/2017/07/06/paro-de-minera-san-rafael-le-costara-al-pais-q5-millones-diarios/ “"The Xinca Parliament has already recognized
that there is no indigenous population of their ethnic group in San Rafael Las Flores . The National
Registry of Persons also recognized the appreciation (statement) of
(the Xinca) parliament.”
However this 2011 article I recently came upon concerning the town Jalapa
https://nisgua.org/jalapa-says-no-to-mining-guatemalan-constitutional-court-hears-case-related-to-tahoe-resources-mining-license/ shows or claims that past voting in the surrounding districts of San Rafael district
rejected THO's silver mine by an overwhelming percentages. And then before
the vote could be completed in the san rafael district where THO's mine is,
the voting was prevented by the gov't. However it appears it was going to be
overwhelmingly voted against there also.
However referring to the first link above if no bribes and pressures were being
Applied to the Xinca Parliament and national registry of persons in Guatemala,
then THO's silver mind should stand and the surrounding districts can't block THO's
trucks passing through them as long as THO makes sure the vehicles are safe
for carrying toxic material through them.
Other than that there can not be a back door way of shutting down THO's silver
mine in san Rafael. Like truck blockages or an overwhelming majority of regular
Guatemalan citizens and indigenous natives outside the san Rafael district and
surrounding districts, voting against THO’s mine existing, being able to shut down
the mine. Neither vote has a right to, and appealing to warranted civil disobedience
doesn’t apply.
THO is doing all it can to make THO’s silver mine safe for the surrounding district
and that is all that is required to have it existing and avoiding any claimed warranted
civil disobedience actions against it.
Only voting indigenous Xinca natives in the San Rafael district can, if are any or in
significant numbers, can do that. Because as I have found recently too, Guatemala
did sign in 1996, the UN C169 indigenous act, allowing that to happen.
https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_008061/lang--en/index.htm