Mining prohibition El Salvador - Thursday, 6 April 2023 - 12:04 PM
Jacobin Owen Schalk Following its failed crypto scheme, authoritarian president Nayib Bukele’s cash-strapped government is making moves to reverse El Salvador’s metal mining ban. Its reintroduction would be a disaster for the nation’s already contaminated water supply. Unlike many Latin American countries that...
Mining prohibition El Salvador - Tuesday, 4 April 2023 - 12:04 PM
The GuardianNina Lakhani Activists worry the arrests are a move by the cash-strapped government to open the country to now banned metals miningFive prominent environmental defenders who played a crucial role in securing a historic mining ban in El Salvador have...
Mining prohibition El Salvador - Monday, 3 April 2023 - 12:04 PM
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 government has created a new agency to oversee extractive industries and begun...
Mining prohibition El Salvador - Friday, 20 January 2023 - 12:01 PM
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 on environmentally destructive metal mining. More than 250 organizations from 29 countries came together Friday to...
Mining prohibition El Salvador - Thursday, 19 January 2023 - 12:01 PM
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 (ADES) called on citizens to protest in San Salvador...
Media Releases - Friday, 13 January 2023 - 15:01 PM
#SantaMartaNoEstaSola San Salvador. January 11, 2023. During the early hours of Wednesday, January 11, agents of the Attorney General Prosecutor's Office and the National Civil Police of El Salvador arrested Miguel Ángel Gámez, Alejandro Laínez García and Pedro Antonio Rivas, members of...
Cerro Blanco - Friday, 23 September 2022 - 17:09 PM
Urgent Communique from the Municipal Commission Specific to the Consultation on Mining The members of the Commission recognized and designated by the Municipality of Asuncion Mita, Jutiapa to organize the Municipal Consultation on Mining petitioned by citizens of our municipality, are...
Cerro Blanco - Thursday, 22 September 2022 - 12:09 PM
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 with the presence of mining projects that...
Cerro Blanco - Wednesday, 21 September 2022 - 16:09 PM
Different environmental and ecofeminist organizations, ecclesial movements, and regional activist alliances participated as international observers in the municipal consultation held this past Sunday, 18th of September in the municipality of Asunción Mita, Jutiapa, Guatemala. The consultation was related to the presence...
Thursday, January 14, 2021 - 13:01 PM
Mining prohibition El Salvador
Water is life. Countless communities across the world, from Flint, Michigan to the Standing Rock Reservation to the Gualcarque River in Honduras, have used this phrase as a rallying cry...
Read moreTuesday, January 5, 2021 - 13:01 PM
* Angélica Cárcamo / Norma Ramírez - ARPAS In 2000, the Pacific Rim mining company intended to employ 450 families in the Department of Cabañas, north of El Salvador. Although the...
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