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21. Honduran justice denies defenders of the Guapinol river to wait for their trial in freedom: (Regional News); ... held in the morning outside the Tocoa courts, the team of defense attorneys questioned the handling of the case and demanded the immediate release of the water defenders. The lawyer and human rights ...; Created on 28 December 2020
22. 2020 in Review: Latin America and Investment Arbitration: (ISDS); ... Particularly, the Dominican Republic argued that, unlike the language used in other treaties it signed, the treaty in question (the Free Trade Agreement between the Caribbean Community and the Dominican ...; Created on 19 December 2020
23. U.S.-Backed ANDA Appointment Threatens the Salvadoran People’s Water Resources: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... concerns and questions about the U.S. government’s involvement regarding the control of water resources. For more than a decade, environmental organizations and water advocates have fought for a new ...; Created on 01 December 2020
24. The hidden connection between a US steel company and the controversial Los Pinares mine in Honduras: (Regional News); ... by the mine. The partnership was created in remarkable secrecy. In response to written questions from this journalistic alliance, Nucor did not explain why it signed a backstage agreement and didn’t ...; Created on 28 November 2020
25. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... its statement, when the Honduran Congress named the park a protected area in 2012, mining and related activities should have been prohibited. But questionable reforms to the law opened the door to the ...; Created on 25 September 2020
26. More ISDS cases launched against Latin American states amid the COVID-19 pandemic: (ISDS); ... Some cases relate to pandemic control measures, and others to ongoing cases. In a recent bulletin, the law firm Garrigues pondered “the question that arises therefore is whether COVID-19 is a new break ...; Created on 01 September 2020
27. The state of Siege in Izabal and Alta Verapaz: shelters, poppies, and the fear of repression: (Regional News); ... questioning detainees, and carrying and possessing weapons. In two days, several actions were filed against the measure decreeing the state of Siege. The Association of University Students Oliverio Castañeda ...; Created on 22 July 2020
28. Governor Aduviri must remain in jail: (Regional News); ... this argument was dismissed because the Aduviri has higher education and is fluent in the Aymara and Castilian language. Meanwhile, Aduviri’s followers questioned the ruling of the magistrates as a political ...; Created on 26 December 2019
29. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... he didn’t want to spark conflict. Instead, Coumans said the embassy grilled Simongo and the others, and the diplomat questioned whether they had legitimate ties to the Communist Party. “It was like an ...; Created on 04 October 2019
30. Getting the shaft on mining abuses: (Background and reports ); ... has been removed from the Frequently Asked Questions section of the government's website. Another troubling change suggests that this new post could be worse than nothing at all. For example, a previous ...; Created on 05 May 2019
31. Uncertainty in communities of Asuncion Mita due to the imminent reopening of the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala: (Cerro Blanco); ... a new Environmental Impact Study (EIA), after having acquired the rights from Goldcorp. "We asked some parliamentarians the same question, but they said they were not aware and/or feigned dementia," Gonzalez ...; Created on 03 May 2019
32. More than one hundred organizations reject the unjust payment of USD $31 million to Canadian mining company Bear Creek: (Regional News); ... shared by Peru and Bolivia); the lack of consultation of local communities; questions around the legality of the project; a lack of transparency; and the company’s negotiating in bad faith with the communities. ...; Created on 16 September 2018
33. Rural Communities’ Struggle Against US-Owned Mine Continues in Guatemalan Supreme Court: (Regional News); ... for taxes purposes, or royalties. The question then becomes where is it shipped to be refined.” Since the court’s decision in early 2016, the mining firm has taken new steps to move the concentrate from ...; Created on 27 August 2018
34. Church in El Salvador backs law declaring clean, affordable water as a human right: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... possible that we still don’t have a law that regulates access to water. As the church, we cannot stay silent.” “It is a question of life or death,” agrees Andrés McKinley, a mining and water specialist ...; Created on 08 May 2018
35. El Salvador – When The Seeds Of Resistance Bloom: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... ban. But in other countries, where no such moratorium has existed, and where hundreds of permits or licenses have already been given, once communities and governments begin questioning the extractivist ...; Created on 23 June 2017
36. PRESS RELEASE: OceanaGold, “the gold mining company of choice”? Not in El Salvador or the Philippines: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... away. “Ignoring or papering over the problems the company has in El Salvador and the Philippines is not going to make them disappear. Investors should definitely be questioning the choice that they have ...; Created on 23 June 2017
37. Western University Professor Brings El Salvador Anti-Mining Struggle to Canadian Audience: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... mining projects directly affect. During the question period, two self-identified representatives of GoldCorp in the audience voiced their objections to a perceived bias in Dr. Grzyb’s presentation. When ...; Created on 08 March 2017
38. In El Salvador, OceanaGold Must ‘Pay Up and Pack Up’: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... By this time, local communities were already put off. Early impacts on local water supplies and the arrogance with which the company addressed local landowners led residents to ask more questions about ...; Created on 03 March 2017
39. Community of San Sebastian still endures Commerce Group’s legacy of contamination.: (Commerce Group); ... propped up by old wooden beams of questionable quality. Nearby, the investigators checked on two shipping containers left behind by CGC. The containers are said to hold barrels of cyanide, the chemical ...; Created on 13 February 2017
40. EL SALVADOR’S WIN AGAINST THE US MINING COMPANY PACIFIC RIM: A VERY NUANCED VICTORY: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... human rights and increase this protection - that is, to generate legal and extra-legal mechanisms that will level the playing field. There is no doubt that the case in question illustrates several factors ...; Created on 28 December 2016

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