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1. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... fear of water defenders in El Salvador. And, this is why there is now a global outcry over these arrests." #SantaMarta | Diversos colectivos ambientalistas están afuera del Centro Judicial Isidr ...; Created on 20 January 2023
2. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... 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 ...; Created on 14 December 2021
3. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... and activist who directed a cultural center in his rural hometown of San Isidro. The authors recount these dramatic setbacks and how the movement responded to them, extracting lessons that might apply ...; Created on 23 April 2021
4. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... in the town of San Isidro, in Cabañas, by going door-to-door to collect donated books. They built a few shelves in their family’s living room and called it the San Isidro Foundation for Culture and the ...; Created on 11 April 2021
5. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... in El Junquillo, his native village, in the municipality of San Isidro. This municipality is characterized by having clay soil and difficult to work for the production of vegetables and legumes. “In these ...; Created on 05 January 2021
6. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... call Tocoa home. “Defending the environment is defending the home we all share,” says Gregorio Vasquez, S.J., of the Saint Isidro of Labrador Parish of Tocoa in an interview with the Saint Alphonsus Rodriguez ...; Created on 25 September 2020
7. Environmentalists commemorate the 11th anniversary of the murder of Marcelo Rivera: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... from the small town of San Isidro, Cabañas, who died due to his relentless opposition to the El Dorado mining project, owned by Canadian Pacific Rim/Oceana Gold mining company. The death of Marcelo, ...; Created on 15 July 2020
8. The Salvadorean State has a pending debt with land defenders criminalized by mining companies: (Mining and Human Rights); ... communities of San Isidro Cabañas, to oppose metal projects. That opposition caused mining companies, allied with the local right-wing government, to organize attacks on our leaders,” expressed the representative ...; Created on 26 December 2019
9. Social Organizations demand compliance with the Prohibition of Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... exploitation permit at the El Dorado mine, in San Isidro, Cabañas. These events allowed the Legislative Assembly, in March 2017, to unanimously pass the prohibition of metal mining in the national territory. ...; Created on 26 December 2019
10. From Mining to Water: 25 years of Community Solidarity and Organizing: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... mining interests. On another hot Salvadoran morning, hundreds of people gathered in San Isidro’s central park for the event, titled, “Exigimos el Derecho Humano al Agua, No a la Propuesta Privatizadora ...; Created on 24 August 2018
11. How El Salvador Won on Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... In Cabañas, the Canadian company Pacific Rim in 2002 acquired the El Dorado gold mine near the rural town of San Isidro, and started exploring. El Dorado was located in the Lempa River basin, whose ...; Created on 07 May 2018
12. Looming threats to the mining prohibition in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Violence escalated in June 2009 when community leader and vocal anti-mining activist Marcelo Rivera went missing in the town of San Isidro. His body was found two weeks later, rotting inside a water well, ...; Created on 08 February 2018
13. National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining demands justice in the case of murdered environmentalists: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... it to be installed again", said Domingo Miranda, at the commemoration ceremony of the eighth anniversary of the murder of environmentalists in San Isidro, Cabañas. Eight years after the murders of Marcelo ...; Created on 01 February 2018
14. Political parties give assurances that they will support the prohibition of Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... after the referendum, the National Round Table Against Metallic Mining. Cinquera was the fifth Salvadoran municipality to rejects metal mining; previously the towns of San Jose Las Flores, San Isidro ...; Created on 09 March 2017
15. Salvadorean Human Rights Attorney Congratulates Municipality that Rejected Mining Through Referendum: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of exploitation of metals. Cinquera is the fifth Salvadoran municipality that rejects metal mining; San Jose Las Flores, San Isidro Labrador, New Trinidad and Arcatao of the northern department of Chalatenango ...; Created on 08 March 2017
16. Pressure Grows on Mining Giant to Pay $8 Million to El Salvador: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... for the El Dorado gold mine in San Isidro, Cabañas. “OceanaGold has to accept the ICSID decision and immediately pay the US$8 million that it owes to El Salvador for legal expenses and expenses,” said ...; Created on 05 March 2017
17. Pressure Mounts on El Salvadoran Legislature to Ban Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... San Isidro de Labrador, Chalatenango Department, has also banned mining. These actions followed the results of community referendums showing an overwhelming opposition to mining operations due to the threat ...; Created on 13 February 2017
18. OceanaGold (Pacific Rim) plans to sue the State; organizations demand mining ban: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... approximately 250 million dollars as compensation for not letting it exploit El Dorado mine in San Isidro, Cabañas. In 2002, the company had started exploration works in the mine after acquiring permits, ...; Created on 13 February 2017
19. FMLN Will Vote for the Ban on the Mining Industry in the Country: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Flores, Nueva Trinidad, Las Vueltas, and San Isidro Labrador they are adding to the initiative to eradicate all forms of mining in the nation’s territory. “We have initiated [the process] with referendums ...; Created on 10 February 2017
20. Communities Call on Local Representatives to Approve Anti-Mining Regulation: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... been realized in four municipalities in the Department of Chalatenango. Among those that have joined together in rejecting mining are: San José Las Flores, San Isidro Labrador, Nueva Trinidad, and Arcatao. ...; Created on 10 February 2017

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