On 30 November 2015 human rights defender Pedro Rafael Maldonado Flores received death threats via his twitter account. Rafael…is the Director of the legal department…at….CALAS (Legal, Environmental and Social Action Centre of Guatemala)…The human rights defender has worked on legal proceedings defending the rights of local communities affected by the imposition of mining projects, in particular the transnational mining company Tahoe Resources…He has also worked on lawsuits against the criminalization of human rights defenders…The human rights defender is a beneficiary of protection measures from the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights…