... would be a disaster for the nation’s already contaminated water supply. Unlike many Latin American countries that court extractive investments from transnational companies, El Salvador has no metal mining ...
... more than 33 years ago during the brutal civil war that claimed 75,000 lives.
Prisoners sat on the cement floor of a courtyard at a prison. Their upper bodies are bare, their heads shaved, and they ...
Mongabay
Maxwell Radin
El Salvador banned all mining of metals in 2017, but environmentalists are concerned that the government is preparing to reverse the decision and bring in international investment. The ...
Common Dreams
Jessica Corbett
Critics warn that the Salvadoran government is "desperate for revenues" and trying to "demobilize potential grassroots opposition" to reversing a historic nationwide ban ...
TeleSur
Five social leaders were arrested due to a judicial order that links them to an alleged case that occurred during the civil war.
On Thursday, Santa Marta's Association for Social Economic Development ...
... legal proceedings against their members and representatives. Santa Marta is an exemplary community that has achieved enormous social development, like no other rural population in the country. ADES has ...
... it took a position against the Municipal Consultation, a historic event that clearly marked the determination of the people against the installation of metallic mining operations through a consultation ...
A municipal referendum was held on September 18 in Asunción Mita, Guatemala, that will impact the future of the Cerro Blanco mine. The question on the ballot aske
d people if they were in agreement ...
... mining project that poses environmentmental threats for both Guatemalan and Salvadoran communities.
The International Observation Mission was made up of the National Roundtable Against Metal Mining ...
... Mita, Department of Jutiapa, Republic of Guatemala, to issue the following public statement before the national and international public opinion:
CONSIDERING
1. That the Lempa River Trinational ...
... Miranda grew up in a Garifuna family that migrated from their community in Santa Fe, Colón, to live and work in a banana field. In those plantations, she saw how people were treated like slaves: the end ...
... Water Systems. It maintains the privatizing spirit in which it was presented last June by the President of the Republic. It is a Law that deepens water injustice as it includes mechanisms that will generate ...
... The struggle led by communities affected by the threat of mining lasted more than twelve years, and this struggle was joined by different sectors of Salvadoran society and the international community that ...
... strong and clear public rejection of this industry, there are worrying signs that suggest that the government of Nayib Bukele, with its puppet Legislative Assembly, are considering opening the door to ...
... that documents the events and strategies that led to the historic ban on metal mining in El Salvador.
Seen from the perspective of the activists who let the local struggle against mining, the document ...
FIDES
Salvadoran Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez, in his usual Sunday press conference, said he hopes that the initiative of the water law that the government will present contains the progress made in ...
... with the World Bank's International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). The director of the government's legal defense agency, Camilo Gomez, told Argus that the state made a strong attempt ...
... a Castillo government that would seek higher taxes on mining is "becoming more of a reality," Rohan Reddy, Global X vice president, and research analyst, said by phone.
Higher taxes would raise costs ...
... has taught us, it is that our environmental and human health are inseparable, and our abuse of nature will come to haunt us, not least in the form of viral outbreaks caused by our exploitation of animals, ...
... fundamentally prone to environmental destruction, climate disruption, and human rights violations."
"We also believe that we still lack rigorous economic plans for national industrialization, agrarian ...