[Translated by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre]

"In view of negotiations with Chinese businessmen to buy Dominga, Humboldt Alliance asks President Boric to cancel the project ‘once and for all’” - May 4, 2022

...The Humboldt Alliance on Tuesday criticised the negotiations of the Délano Méndez and Garcés Silva families to sell the Dominga mining project to a group of Chinese investors... "On this occasion, organisations from the Coquimbo Region, from the territory where they intend to commit one of the greatest ecocides by insisting on destroying the Humboldt Archipelago, the aquifer of Los Choros and the sources of employment of nearly 2. We are addressing the Chilean state, that is, the executive, the judiciary and the legislature to demand the right decision and once and for all prevent the installation of Dominga and stop this real series of 'hidden truths' carried out by the owners of Dominga with the sponsorship of former president Piñera, since 2009, before the rejected Dominga port mining project entered the environmental impact assessment system," the alliance said in a statement ... For the group, the negotiations for the sale of Dominga to Chinese capital are the "icing on the cake", "the manoeuvre that crowns the endless series of manipulation and pressure on institutions and the community that the owners of Dominga have been carrying out non-stop"...