"Activists ask for help combatting violence against Nicaragua’s Indigenous communities", 29 July 2024.

...For years, Indigenous communities on Nicaragua’s northern Caribbean coast have suffered threats, kidnappings, torture and unlawful arrests while defending communal territory from illegal settlements and mining...The area has attracted non-Indigenous Nicaraguans, known locally as colonos, looking to set up farms, logging operations and artisanal mines. Massive gold and copper deposits have also created opportunities for multinational mining corporations, with backing from the government...But the country’s mining concessions have continued to expand, often in Indigenous communities that struggle to find adequate legal representation, or don’t understand their rights...Between October 2023 and April 2024, the government granted three Chinese companies 13 mining concessions in the country, eight of them in the RACCN, according to a Confidencial investigation published earlier this year...