Petition Against Canada for Violations of the Right to Life and Other Rights of Mariano Abarca

(“Blackfire”) obtained concessions to mine for barite in the municipality of Chicomuselo, Chiapas, Mexico.41 [12] In December 2007, the Canadian Ambassador in Mexico led a delegation to Chiapas, and met with the Governor of Chiapas and with Blackfire.42 The Ambassador, along with the Embassy’s Political Counsellor, arranged for meetings between Blackfire and the Governor of Chiapas, which led to i. [...] Canadian access to information request and complaint to Canada’s Public Sector Integrity Commissioner (PSIC) [62] In 2010, Canadian civil society groups working with the Abarca family filed an Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) Request in Canada, focused on the Embassy’s involvement in the mining project.119 In 2012, they received hundreds of pages of documents in response to the request.120. [...] 125 Judgment of the First Collegiate Court in Criminal and Civil Matters of the Twentieth Circuit of the Federal Judiciary (December 6, 2019) (Annex 15); Order of the Second District Judge for Amparo and Federal Trials in the State of Chiapas (October 2, 2020) (Annex 17); Order of the Second District Judge for Amparo and Federal Trials in the State of Chiapas (October 22, 2020) (Annex 18). [...] As mentioned above, the greater the influence a State has over the enjoyment of protected rights, the stricter the analysis of the duty to respect and guarantee rights will be. [...] In 2007, the Embassy intervened with the government of Chiapas to set up meetings with the ejidos on whose land the mining project would take place, which led to land access agreements being signed.153 In 2008, the Embassy intervened again with the federal government to secure a much-needed explosives permit for Blackfire.154 These successes demonstrate the degree of influence the Embassy had over.