Since 2018 the Municipal Committee in Defence of Common and Public Goods (CMDBCP) have filed a series of criminal and administrative complaints against state institutions, such as Honduran National Institute of Geology and Mining (INGEOMIN), the Honduran Ministry of Energy, Natural Resources, Environment and Mines (MiAmbiente+) and Honduran Institute of Foresty Conservation (ICF), as well as the private company, Inversiones Los Pinares, for their role in granting and obtaining mining permits in breach of environmental safeguards or the right to effective participation of the affected communities in the decisions to continue with the ASP1 and ASP2 mining project and processing plant.
El Comité Municipal de Defensa de los Bienes Comunes y Públicos (CMDBCP) and the Coalición Contra la Impunidad (CCI), "Cronología de la Criminalización del Campamento Guapinol", dated August 2019, online: https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source..., accessed 15 April 2020