Compelling article by Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado:

Lesions, illness, death - just some of the consequences local communities have had to bear for living near Guatemala's largest gold mine. Use of cyanide to leech gold from the rock is believed to be making children sick. Al Jazeera’s David Mercer reports from San Miguel Ixtahuacan.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/03/20103919176748560.html