Water Forum of El Salvador Opposes the Government's Mining Suspension
Today, sitting beneath banners that read “For sustainability and the Right to Water” the Water Form of El Salvador held a press ...
... in El Salvador, is to demobilize potential grassroots opposition to the government's plans."
Given Bukele and Attorney General Rodolfo Delgado's track records as well as the state of exception that ...
... with the World Bank's International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). The director of the government's legal defense agency, Camilo Gomez, told Argus that the state made a strong attempt ...
... had been tapped.
He said the mining industry could bring "significant economic benefits to the country" by supporting the government's "Build, Build, Build" infrastructure programme and creating jobs.
The ...
... Director of the Association of Participatory Broadcasting of El Salvador (ARPAS), Leonel Herrera, denounced the U.S. government's influence in El Salvador’s policy decisions, including regarding the recent ...
... was never an echo of concern from past governments. Water has not yet ended up serving the entire Salvadoran population.”
What is the source of the Salvadoran water problem? Access to water is not legally ...
... 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 ...
... department of Alta Verapaz. The government's justification for decreeing the state of Siege is that the presence of organized crime groups carrying out illicit activities such as drug trafficking, illegal ...
... and the use of slave labour. Yet there are rarely any consequences for companies where they are headquartered and allowed to raise most of their money – namely, in Canada.Successive Canadian governments ...
... prohibiting metal mining in the country.
However, the fight continues.
"The company is still present in our department, despite the government's decision. It is a very serious situation for us that we ...
... they threatened to bring the army, we answered that we had experienced twelve years of war and we were not afraid.”
The presence of Au Martinique led local governments affected by the project to join ...
... potentially negative outcome of the suit, could deteriorate the government's capacity to prevent further migrations, curb the chronic insecurity in the country and implement policies for sustainable economic ...
... Rim, of which you are the President of the Board of Directors, on the national sovereignty of the Republic of El Salvador. Pacific Rim has refused to respect the Salvadoran government's decision to deny ...
... more than $77 million in compensation over the government's denial of a permit for a gold mining project. The government acted in response to strong public concerns that the project could contaminate a ...
... filed arbitration in the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), an arbitration mechanism of the World Bank based in Washington D.C. Pacific Rim claims the Salvadoran government' ...
... of concern from past governments. Water has not yet ended up serving the entire Salvadoran population.”
What is the source of the Salvadoran water problem? Access to water is not legally recognized as ...