An injunction/court order granted by a Mexican judge should protect eleven Zapotec communities in the Ocotlán Valley of Oaxaca state from Vancouver-based Fortuna Silver and its subsidiary the Cuzcatlán mining company.
A statement from the communities says: “Faced with the negligence and omission of the federal government, we decided to appeal to the justice system through an amparo on December 5, 2023, to request the cancellation of the mining concessions granted in our territories without our consent.”
La Jornada further explains: “Judge Emmanuel Hernández Alba, head of the First District Court in the state of Oaxaca, granted 11 communities an injunction by which it is ordered ‘to refrain from depriving totally or partially, temporarily or permanently, of the ownership and possession of the lands of the agrarian regime, the populations of merit,’ that is, that they are prohibited from applying any project. including the miners, which is an achievement of these communities.”
Fortuna/Cuzcatlán has been extracting gold and silver concentrates in San José del Progreso since 2011 through mining concessions granted by the federal government without prior consultation with its residents.
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