The Xinka people and their weight in eastern Guatemala's mining
- Social license and prior consultation
- Social license and prior consultation
- Audited
In the 2018 census (INE), 264,167 people self-identified as Xinka (1.8% of the population), against only 16,214 in 2002; the jump reflects the identity-claim movement that the Escobal litigation itself catalyzed (figures confirmed against IWGIA and INE's Compendio Estadístico de Pueblos). The Xinka people — not Maya, with their own language family — live in Jutiapa, Jalapa and Santa Rosa, exactly the eastern mining corridor (Escobal, Cerro Blanco). Judgment 4785-2017 settled their existence in the area of influence in court after their presence had been denied in the project's studies: denying or understating indigenous presence in the environmental impact assessment is the most repeated original error in the record (the same finding MICI made at Ixquisis).
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Figures
- Self-identified Xinka population
- 264,167 (1.8%)
- Xinka population
- 16,214
Sources
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Related records
- The death of State-licensed projects in Guatemala
- Guatemala's ratification of ILO Convention 169 and its obligations
- Absence of a prior consultation law and Initiative 5450
- Over 100 community consultations without binding force
- The Constitutional Court's four stages of prior consultation
- The missing consultation law as an investor risk
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