Today, June 2nd, is the 10 year mark of the mercury spill that intoxicated thousands of villagers of Choropampa (Cajamarca). Demands for medical attention and compensation still have not yet been heard.

In memory of this tragic event, Guarango has put exceptionally the full HD version of its documentary "Choropampa, the Price of Gold" for free during one week on its YouTube page for you to view it. Watch it in Spanish or with English subtitels.

source: Al Jazeera English

Now, we're putting interesting movies about mining and globalization in Latin-America all together in the CATAPA-videozone. 

The most recent movies are own productions: testimonies about our cases in El Estor and San Marcos (Guatemala) and the San Andres mine (Honduras).

Video of the protest in front of the British Embassy in Lima after the 2 dead people in Huancabamba.

Conflicto minero en primera persona

Agua, Minería en Bolivia

CATAPA has long been working on the Majaz case in Peru. Recently a new documentary about the case was made by the London-based filmmaker Michael Watts, and is available online:

Laguna Negra is a film that explores the core values of a campesino community in Huancabamba (Peru), the way the fabric of this society has been threatened by large scale mining and the destructive outcome of imposing a capital intensive model of development on a society based on traditional values.