El Salvador loses on three out of four counts, as anti-environment and anti-development case launched under CAFTA drags on
Todd Tucker, June 4, 2012
El Salvador lost three out of four of its major ...
... them against mining. They called themselves pro-water. Their whole movement was for saving the water of El Salvador. Now, that was part of what was effective.
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... counts of aggravated arson to the detriment of the mining company Los Pinares and Santos Corea, the head of a security company contracted by the same company. They also face the charge of unjust detention ...
... arrest of Ancira Elizondo occurred less than 24 hours after the Finance Intelligence Unit (FIU) of the Treasury froze the bank accounts of AHMSA and former director of Pemex, Emilio Lozoya.
In December ...
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Beside the impacts on the environment and to the residents’ livelihood, the People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS) documented cases human rights abuses.
“We have heard accounts of intensified ...
... of seismic activity.
They presented draft legislation to the government to prohibit mining. Other powerful institutions joined in, including the Catholic Church, which countsabout 60 percent of the country’s ...
... against mining in El Salvador.
He made the statements through his social media accounts.
Last March 29th, deputies of the Legislative Assembly approved the Law Prohibiting Metallic Mining which prevent ...
... currently accounts for less than one percent of the Salvadoran gross domestic product, which is composed mainly by agricultural activity, maquilas (production for exports on behalf of third parties with ...
... outrageous.
After these accounts of terror we naturally expect the whole population to oppose the company. But we become convinced of the opposite. In Cabañas we regret to notice that the firm has managed ...
... and the disposition of the legislative assembly to enact a prohibition.
This is not simple as the FMLN only counts with 31 seats at the legislative assembly and needs to negotiate with one of the right ...
... only accounts for 14% of ICSID member states, they make up 51% of those nations facing cases related to extractive industries. According to report authors Sandra Anderson and Manuel Pérez-Rocha, the litigations ...
... Three out of Four Counts, as Anti-Environment and Anti-Development Case Launched under CAFTA Drags On
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