GUATEMALA LIBEL SUIT

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CS:</NOWEB> Every filmmaker is sensitive to a bad review. But sometimes a negative review isn't just dispiriting -- it's inappropriate. And sometimes it's just plain wrong.

Steven Schnoor is a Toronto Ph.D. student and documentary filmmaker. In 2007, he posted a nine-and-a-half minute video to YouTube depicting the forcible eviction of peasants from the El Estor region of Guatemala. The evictions were ordered by Canadian mining company Skye Resources, which is now part of HudBay minerals. And when the video emerged, the Canadian Ambassador to Guatemala at the time, Kenneth Cook, gave it two thumbs down -- and called it "a hoax".

Three years ago, when we last spoke with Mr. Schnoor, he was seeking an apology from the Ambassador and the Deptartment of Foreign Affairs. This week he got a little more than that -- in a Toronto courtroom.

http://www.cbc.ca/asithappens/latestshow.html
Part three.
http://www.cbc.ca/asithappens/

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1. That was very interesting...

It is certainly good news Mr. Schnoor won his case against the Ambassador and the Harper cabal. I was totally unaware of this until you posted the link so thanks for that.