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1. 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
2. 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
3. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... and strong coalition. We learn that a right-wing environmental minister, Hugo Barrera, handed the water defenders an essential bit of legal strategy, and a conservative archbishop became an anti-mining ...
Created on 11 April 2021
4. What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... killed in El Salvador’s civil war. It thus took a great deal of courage for the water defenders to reach out to ARENA, as well as to the ultraconservative archbishop of San Salvador, the nation’s capital, ...
Created on 05 April 2021
5. WATER IS LIFE. CAN WE PROTECT IT?
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... assassinated. These water defenders won over the most unlikely of allies, like a conservative archbishop alarmed by the dangers of cyanide. They even flew in a governor from the Philippines, who spoke ...
Created on 28 March 2021
6. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
The World Joyce A new book describes how environmental activists in El Salvador brought conservatives and progressives together to institute a nationwide ban on metal mining in 2017. The World’s ...
Created on 22 March 2021
7. 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
8. In Mining-Affected Communities, Water Is Becoming More Precious Than Gold
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... allies, includ-ing the archbishop of El Salvador, head of the country’s conservative Catholic Church. Effective opposition kept Pacific Rim from meeting the regulatory requirements to obtain the permits ...
Created on 26 June 2017
9. Historic Wins for Democracy and Rights in El Salvador
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... good news: The environment minister and other individuals in the then-conservative government of President Tony Saca listened to the communities and convinced the executive branch to halt new mining licenses ...
Created on 26 June 2017
10. El Salvador Church Leaders Fight for Ban on Mining Exploitation
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... forward in the Congress, and the latest proposal is likely to continue to face an uphill battle in the conservative-dominated assembly. In 2013, a national coalition against metals mining presented a ...
Created on 10 February 2017
11. A dirty gold fever
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... ago the then-head of state of El Salvador Antonio Saca refused to grant mining rights to the mining company Pacific Rim for a vein of gold in the Department of Cabañas. The president and its conservative ...
Created on 02 February 2016
12. Save Our Water, End Investor Rights
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... moratorium was declared in 2008 when then-President Antonio Saca of the conservative ARENA party agreed not to issue new mining permits. Three successive Salvadoran Presidents have maintained the moratorium. ...
Created on 18 May 2015
13. A corporate warning to El Salvador: Give up your gold or pay $315 million
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... in 2006, under the conservative administration of President Tony Saca, the rate of granting exploitation permits suddenly dropped. The result of fears of contamination from mining activity and years ...
Created on 06 August 2014
14. El Salvador, violence and impunity
(Mining and Human Rights)
... right-wing ARENA party in San Isidro’s municipal elections. ARENA and the conservative PCN have dominated Cabañas since the 1979-92 civil war, when the area was held by the army with support from paramilitary ...
Created on 13 February 2014
15. Why we are shouting out against mining injustice
(2013 International Support for Mining Ban)
Why we are shouting out against mining injustice BY BRENT PATTERSON and MEERA KARUNANANTHAN  JUNE 18, 2012 In the next decade, the Conservative government predicts over $500 billion in investments ...
Created on 27 June 2012
16. Varios Países Rechazan Mecanismos de Arreglo de Disputas entre Estados e Inversionistas
(FTAs & ISDS)
...  investor-state-changes-trade-deal-us-implementation-rushed-be  Submitted by Janet Eaton on Mon, 2012-03-19 20:33 [3] South Korea conservatives win parliamentary poll, boost for Park  http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/12/us-korea-politics-election-idUSBRE83A19R20120412 ...
Created on 10 May 2012

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