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1. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... violent displacement during the civil war. Among the allies the water defenders won over were a legislator from the conservative ARENA party who led a key committee in El Salvador’s Congress, a prosecutor ...; Created on 23 April 2021
2. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... in the region, and thus no opposition to mining. A local mayor from the right-wing ARENA party promoted landfills and industrial hog farms as “development” projects. Local opposition organized against ...; Created on 11 April 2021
3. What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... its female leaders—proved instrumental. But notable heroes also emerged in the right-wing ARENA party. This is especially significant if you remember that from 1980 to 1992, roughly 75,000 people were ...; Created on 05 April 2021
4. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... El Salvador's conservative ARENA [National Republican Alliance] party found common ground with former rebel leaders and Catholic Church officials to ban mining? Luis Parada Basically, they, like all the ...; Created on 22 March 2021
5. Civil society presents a proposal for the Water Law in the Legislative Assembly: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... Marta Evelin Batres from the right-wing party ARENA, and president of the Commission on the Environment and Climate Change. Civil society leaders added that their expectation is that legislators will not ...; Created on 20 April 2020
6. From Mining to Water: 25 years of Community Solidarity and Organizing: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... mining ban passed, El Salvador’s conservative ARENA party proposed their own water law, with the technical guidance of El Salvador’s National Association of Private Companies (ANEP). The regulatory entity ...; Created on 24 August 2018
7. Founding statement: National Alliance against Water Privatization in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... wing parties ARENA, PCN, GANA and PDC in coordination with the National Business Association ANEP, through the approval of the so called "Integral Water Law". The law proposes the creation of a National ...; Created on 25 June 2018
8. Water 2.0 - Salvadoreans take to the streets to battle renewed attempts to privatize water resources: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... four consecutive governments of the pro-business ARENA party. During 20 years, Salvadoreans endured the dollarization of local currency and the signing of free trade agreements designed to facilitate ...; Created on 24 June 2018
9. El Salvador: first anniversary of the mining ban A cause for celebration, but the new law faces dangers: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Andrés McKinley - UK LAB On March 29th, 2017, the small country of El Salvador became the first nation in the world to exercise its sovereign right to say “no” to metallic mining after carefully analyzing ...; Created on 22 June 2018
10. Threats to the Law Against Metallic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Morales denounced that a "green mining" campaign recently emerged on social media networks is raising the alarm of a possible counter-offensive by the industry to raise the issue again in the public arena ...; Created on 07 May 2018
11. How El Salvador Won on Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of Waukesha, Wisconsin started operating there. After the war ended, Cabezas says, the rightwing ARENA government, in collaboration with international mining concerns, drafted an economic plan for ...; Created on 07 May 2018
12. Salvadorans Reinforce Commitment to Sustain Historic Mining Ban on its First Anniversary: (Media Releases); ... has become concentrated in the hands of a single party, ARENA, whose aspiring presidential candidate is known to have ties with international mining interests. “We have argued, with scientific ...; Created on 06 May 2018
13. Looming threats to the mining prohibition in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... suffered significant erosion of public support while the pro-business ARENA party, which introduced the mining program in 2002, is poised to take a significant majority at the legislative assembly in the ...; Created on 08 February 2018
14. Mining company continues lobbying efforts to repeal Anti-Mining Law: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the political map of El Salvador, just two years before he launched his pre-candidacy for the presidency of the country. Calleja is the leading candidate for the right-wing party ARENA. Nonetheless, Giustra' ...; Created on 14 November 2017
15. Conservative candidate Carlos Calleja against mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Translated from Ultima Hora Carlos Calleja, the candidate to the presidency for the Republican Nationalist Alliance, ARENA party, considers himself to be a true environmentalist and has declared he is ...; Created on 14 November 2017
16. To prevent water privatization: the next battle for Salvadorean environmentalists: (Water no Gold); ... in mid-June by the National Association of Private Enterprise (ANEP) before the Legislative Assembly and supported by ARENA and other right-wing parties. We believe that its contents are intended to implement ...; Created on 27 July 2017
17. Anti mining organizations ask for the approval of the General Water Law: (Sample Data-Articles); ... the water. Also, we are concerned that Deputy Johnny Wright, of the ARENA party, has stated that the proposal is eminently technical, implying that the others are not." said Baños. The water proposal ...; Created on 21 July 2017
18. PRESS RELEASE: To the national and international public opinion: (Media Releases); ... Enterprise (ANEP) before the Legislative Assembly and supported by ARENA and other right-wing parties. We consider that its contents are intended to implement a model of privatized management, where ...; Created on 21 July 2017
19. How Local, Grassroots Organizing Drove El Salvador’s Mining Ban: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... and play an important role in the community. About half of the population strongly supports the left-wing FMLN while the other half flocks behind the right-wing ARENA party. In addition, many residents ...; Created on 26 June 2017
20. El Salvador becomes first country to ban metals mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... shortly before the bill was put to a vote. Francis Zablah, a legislator from GANA, one of the three main political parties in the country together with the FMLN and ARENA, lauded the multi-partisan commission ...; Created on 16 April 2017

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