• International Allies Against Mining in El SalvadorWe are a group of organisations from Australia Canada, Europe and the U.S. that support the Salvadoran people's demand for sovereignty, the right to water and healthy communities. We coordinate our work with the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining in El Salvador and with communities directly affected by mining projects.  

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Recent News

Salvadorans participate in a protest against mining outside the Legislative Assembly in San Salvador on March 29, 2017. (Marvin Recinos / AFP via Getty Images)

El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger

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...

El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, is under pressure to find new revenue streams after his embrace of cryptocurrency failed spectacularly. Photograph: Marvin Recinos/AFP/Getty Images

Salvadoran environmental defenders detained for decades-old crimes

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...

Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?

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...

Supporters of Salvadoran water defenders demanded their release in San Salvador on January 19, 2023.

250++ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders

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...

Santa Marta Community Leaders Are Persecuted in El Salvador

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...

Public statement from social movement organizations on the detention of members …

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...

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NEW BOOK: The water defenders - how ordinary people saved a …

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...

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From dreams of gold to organic agriculture

Tuesday, January 5, 2021 - 13:01 PM

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* 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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