... in the department of Cabañas were asked to participate in a public referendum, to be held in the next months, to give their opinion in favor or against metal mining within their territory.
Cinquera is ...
... violate the rights of the inhabitants of the department of Cabañas.
Researcher Jennifer Moore stressed that mining companies create foundations to disguise their intentions, but basically are just looking ...
P. Cabezas
As the world celebrated the conclusion of the COP21 talks in Paris, the somber mood in the community of La Maraña, in the northern department of Cabañas of El Salvador, hardly echoes the cheerful ...
ADES and MUFRAS 32 and the communities of Cabañas celebrate the IV Festival for the Human Right to a Healthy Environment
By, Héctor Berrios
On September 15, 2012 women, men, young people and children ...
The Mesa is preparing an activity in front of the Attorney General's Office in response to the recent sentences in the cases of violence in Cabañas. For more information see here.
They are asking for ...
The Crime in Cabañas
Originally Published in the print newspaper Voces
February 22, 2010
Translated by Jan Morrill
Between August and December 2009 at least five people were assassinated in ...
Threats and Attacks to Religious Leader in Cabañas
January 2012
A new series of threats towards environmentalists have disrupted the uneasy calm that had settled over Cabañas after almost eight months ...
New Threats and Intimidation towards Mining Opponents in Cabañas
Another case of intimidation towards anti-mining activists in Cabañas was reported by the Environmental Committee of Cabañas. Below is ...
Political Candidates Answer to Anti-Mining Activists in San Salvador and Cabañas
March 2012
Monday March 5, the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining in El Salvador (The Mesa in Spanish) together ...
El Salvador: Pacific Rim Mining Co. Shares Up, Tensions Remain High in Cabañas
Written by Jason Wallach
Friday, 18 September 2009 07:57
At the recent Pacific Rim Mining ...
A new series of threats towards environmentalists have disrupted the uneasy calm that had settled over Cabañas after almost eight months without violence or intimidation.
On Friday January 20th, ...
... minería “sostenible”, y poco después se aprobó una ley para crear la Dirección de Energía Minas e Hidrocarburos. Líderes comunitarios de Cabañas también han denunciado la presencia de representantes de ...
... law was passed in the a law to create a Directorate of Energy Mines and Hydrocarbons. Community leaders in Cabañas have also denounced the presence of employees of mining companies offering long-term leases ...
... which it was suing at the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) for denying Pacific Rim, a subsidiary of OceanaGold, an exploitation license in the northern Cabañas ...
... Alejandro Laínez García, Pedro Antonio Rivas Laínez, Antonio Pacheco and Saúl Agustín Rivas Ortega were detained on Wednesday in Cabañas in northern El Salvador, accused of killing an alleged army informant ...
... Menéndez, exigiendo la libertad de los líderes comunitarios de Cabañas. Vidalina Morales, presidenta de @ades_sm, habla de la lucha antiminera que han librado. ✍???? @GuerreroMarvin pic.twitter.com/H8bbDOJKAm ...
... in the municipality of Victoria, department of Cabañas.
In a simultaneous operation, carried out on the same day and time, in the municipality of Guacotecti, Cabañas, state agents also detained Teodoro ...
... disregard the anti-mining struggle that the country experienced for more than twelve years and for which at least four environmentalists from Cabañas who offered their lives so that Canadian mining companies ...
... in El Salvador, the Canadian mining company, Pacific Rim, in the exploration phase alone of its El Dorado project in San Isidro, Cabañas, dried up more than 20 historical community water holes.
Instead ...
... of the communities that led to the acts of violence and assassination of 5 environmentalists in Cabañas and the strategies these communities utilized to forge a robust national and international movement ...