Honduran villagers take legal action to stop mining firm digging up graves for gold

Families face pressure to decide the fate of their relatives' grave, dividing the community of Azacualpa where as many as 350 bodies have already been exhumed Nothing is sacred in the path of gold miners in northwestern Honduras - not even the dead. A transnational mining company, Aura Minerals, has been digging up graves in the 200-year-old cemetery near the community of Azacualpa, La Union, to clear the way to dig for gold. Continue reading...