A BRIEF CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF THE LEGAL SUIT OF PACIFIC RIM MINING COMPANY AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT OF EL SALVADOR
Andrés McKinley, Oxfam America
06/09
Metallic mining in Central America:
In the ...
... a murder during the country’s twelve-year civil war (1980–1992). In the context of Bukele’s increasing openness toward mining, however, some in El Salvador and around the world are questioning the true ...
... administrations refused.”
It is important to mention that the lead up to this pre-consultation process has been marked by a context of repression, criminalization, assassinations, and discrimination. ...
... caused by a judicial decision. However, the license continues to be suspended.”
Brief timeline and context
In March 2012 residents from San José del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc – an area known as La ...
... in the context of the consultation that worsens social division. This is evidenced by a rise in violent attacks against participants in the consultation process, including an attempted assassination against ...
... also revealed how many governments were taking extraordinary steps to suppress protests in mining contexts, as well as how companies and governments were taking advantage of the crisis to establish new ...
... offers only a cursory treatment of the first.
The timing and the context of Rivera’s murder make Pacific Rim an obvious suspect: The motive is there. Broad and Cavanagh write that San Isidro Mayor José ...
... Broad Front wrote about Aduviri in the context of the criminalization of anti-extractivism across the country. The focus of these critiques has been on the Peruvian state, but Canada is complicit too, ...
... Additionally, it can be noted in this context, due to the explanations furnished by Mexico for the modifications of its renewable energy framework, that any potential claim over these modifications could ...
... in February 2021. In this pre-electoral context, right-wing support for the constitutional reform can be understood as an attempt to gain approval from a population that widely opposes privatization, not ...
... a regional pattern of political persecution, where the governments of Central America´s CA4 region (Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador) are utilizing confinement measures, in the context of ...
... of this is the government of Honduras.
And to give a little context of what is happening in Triunfo de la Cruz, Alberth Snider Centeno is one of the — is the most young leader being a chief in one of ...
... use this incident to criminalize the beneficiaries of MC 50 -14 in La Lempira ”, explained representatives of local organizations.
Increasing vulnerability
Vulnerability increased in the context ...
Gloria Orellana - Diario Co Latino
Tatiana Oliva, from the National Alliance Against Water Privatization, considered the approval of the General Water Law to be of key importance. Especially in the context ...
... of our common goods.
In this context, we welcome with satisfaction the decision taken by the current Environment and Climate Change Commission, in January 2020, to reopen the legislative debate on this ...
... the creation of “anti-terrorism” laws. In the name of security and the fight against drug trafficking, human rights defenders have been unfairly criminalized.
This context of violence for those who ...
... this context, it could not be more timely to honour Mariano’s memory and all those in Chiapas who put everything on the line everyday to ensure clean water, land to cultivate and well-organized, self-determining ...
... the producers that live on the Lempa River”.
In this context, social organizations demand the Salvadoran State adopt measures that are appropriate and effective to prevent, reduce and control the impact ...
... a continuing context that the legislative probe intended to look into. Violations were noted as early as 2007 involving the free, prior and informed consent of indigenous Tuwali-Ifugaos in the mine’s area. ...
... used by the judges doesn't make sense in the context of these events. He points out that "the Aymara indigenous communities are never overseen by a single leader. This was shown in the anthropological studies ...