German Chub has been involved in the conflict with Fenix nickel mine since 2009 over land rights, when he was shot and paralyzed from the waist down by Mynor Padilla, the mine’s head of security, who also shot dead anti-mining activist Adolfo Ich Chamán, and was convicted in January 2021. On October 27 2021, in the midst of a recent protest over a nickel mine in El Estor, in eastern Guatemala, police have carried out more than 40 raids and 60 arrests. Police with personnel from the country’s Office of the Public Prosecutor raided German Chub's house. Hundreds of other police officers, soldiers and marines were in the area, patrolling and stationed at different points around town, including along a stretch of road between El Estor and the mining complex 6 kilometers (4 miles) to the west.