“FEATURE-'No to the mine' - Mexico's Indians fight to stop mining on ancestral land”, 5th March 2019

…After nearly 20 years of wrangling, a group of Nahua Indian villagers could make legal history in Mexico this month when a court rules on a land dispute involving a Canadian miner. A lawyer for villagers of Tecoltemi in the central Mexican state of Puebla said it was the first time a court would rule on whether the country's mining law - which gives priority to mining activities over other land use - was constitutional…For a century Mexico has granted indigenous people legal title to ancestral lands, but many have seen mining firms given rights to that land after the government prioritised mining over other land use in the 1990s, lawyers said. The case, to be heard in a federal court in Puebla, concerns two concessions awarded to Minera Gorrion, a local subsidiary of Canada's Almaden Minerals, which has caused divisions among villagers while pitting some against the company…A spokesman for Minera Gorrion said in an email the company has abided by rules set by environmental regulators, who had found no irregularities. Almaden Minerals did not respond to repeated requests for comment. Minera Gorrion said the Canadian company would only comment on the project through its Mexican subsidiary…