“I bought my land to live on it, not to negotiate it.” -Farmer, Grandmother, San Marcos, Guatemala

Question: What does this farmer, and shareholders owning $37,000,000,000 in Goldcorp, Inc. (NYSE: GG) stock have in common?  A tremendously valuable stake in what happens at Marlin – an open pit gold mine in the hills of Guatemala’s San Marcos department.

Amidst the wreckage of decades of murderous conflict in Guatemala, North American mining companies are hauling in record profits. In San Marcos, the hills are filled with gold, and a mammoth open-pit cyanide mine now anchors the indigenous Mayan landscape. Community members tell of disputes over water and land, of rising crime, of rashes and health harms, and of violence against those who publicly fight the mine. Mine representatives tell of jobs, clinics, schools and an offer of prosperity.

How did Marlin come to be?  Who benefits?  Who doesn’t?  What does the future hold for Guatemala and the people of San Marcos?  This is an old story, and a new one.  A story of rich and poor.  Of North and South.  Of community and business.  Of life and death.  And it’s not a story you will see on the evening news.  This is the story of Extraction.

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