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1. Public statement of the Local Governments of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, members of the Lempa River Trinational Border Association, regarding the “Cerro Blanco” mining project, developed by the ...: (Cerro Blanco); The Governments and Local Authorities of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, represented hereby are members of the Lempa River Trinational Border Association, and also the "Trinational Network for the ...; Created on 12 June 2022
2. Guatemalan Mine Threatens the Lempa River: (Cerro Blanco); Guatemalan Mine Threatens the Lempa River The Lempa River is the main source of surface water in El Salvador and provides drinking water for over 60% of the entire population, including the city of San ...; Created on 11 September 2012
3. International community calls for release of El Salvador antimining activists: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the five men helped lead a campaign to ban metals mining in 2017 and protect El Salvador’s primary source of clean water, the Lempa River Basin. The countrywide ban was the first of its kind anywhere in ...; Created on 20 December 2023
4. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... dozens of cases that have been started by survivors of military massacres that have not gone to trial. Three specific cases are those of the Lempa massacre (forty-three killed, 189 disappeared), the Los ...; Created on 06 April 2023
5. Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Specifically, the water defenders were concerned about mining around the Lempa River Basin, which is one of the principal water sources in the country. It would take more than a decade and several lawsuits ...; Created on 03 April 2023
6. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... for the dozens of cases of human rights violations and crimes against humanity that members of the Salvadoran military committed against the Santa Marta community (including the murders of the Lempa River ...; Created on 20 January 2023
7. Central American mayors reject mining exploitation that affects strategic river: (Cerro Blanco); ... Lempa River that runs through the three countries and supplies water to 4.5 million people. "We consider it imperative to express our position against mining exploitation, in any of its forms, that takes ...; Created on 12 June 2022
8. Central American mayors reject mining exploitation that affects strategic river: (Cerro Blanco); ... Lempa River that runs through the three countries and supplies water to 4.5 million people. "We consider it imperative to express our position against mining exploitation, in any of its forms, that takes ...; Created on 12 June 2022
9. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... in the country. It does not develop a sustainable watershed management system at the national level, nor it establishes measures aimed at the protection and conservation of the Lempa River. Despite the ...; Created on 23 December 2021
10. Ostúa River contaminated with lead and arsenic from Cerro Blanco mine: (Cerro Blanco); ... Lempa River, the most important fresh water supply for Salvadorans. "We have found that lead exceeds international water quality standards. This is already an existing danger for the aquatic life of ...; Created on 21 April 2020
11. Study reveals the threats of the Cerro Blanco mine: (Cerro Blanco); ... due to the high content of toxic metals and the reduction of the water flow. Both water streams above, provide water for the Guija Lake, the main head of the Lempa River. “We have been observing ...; Created on 26 December 2019
12. Marcelo's Legacy: The environmentalist who fought against metal mining in El Salvado: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); by Eduardo Barahona / Karla Rodas: Vanguardia El Salvador is the first country in the world to ban metal mining in its entirety, in March, 2017; but who were the precursors of this victory? It could ...; Created on 18 September 2019
13. Mining Grabs Up Land, Deals Blow to Agriculture in Central America: (Background and reports ); ... For example, the Cerro Blanco mine, located in the Guatemalan municipality of Asunción Mita, bordering on western El Salvador, is part of the Ostua-Guija-Lempa basin. The pollution generated by the ...; Created on 07 May 2019
14. Uncertainty in communities of Asuncion Mita due to the imminent reopening of the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala: (Cerro Blanco); ... El Salvador. And from there the remnants of the process, heavy metals and other pollutants, would reach the Lempa River, which sig sags throughout the country and is the main source of water for 60% ...; Created on 03 May 2019
15. Rural Communities’ Struggle Against US-Owned Mine Continues in Guatemalan Supreme Court: (Regional News); ... operations in El Salvador in 2002, and quickly identified a gold reserve along the Lempa River in the department of Cabañas. In accordance with the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), the company ...; Created on 27 August 2018
16. El Salvador: first anniversary of the mining ban A cause for celebration, but the new law faces dangers: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Andrés McKinley - UK LAB On March 29th, 2017, the small country of El Salvador became the first nation in the world to exercise its sovereign right to say “no” to metallic mining after carefully analyzing ...; Created on 22 June 2018
17. Threats to the Law Against Metallic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... expressed that the issue should be addressed regionally, since important rivers such as the Lempa, the main watershed in the national territory, are shared across the region and can be contaminated from ...; Created on 07 May 2018
18. 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
19. Lack of proposals from political candidates on the Environmental Crisis in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... rescue the Lempa river, but they contradict themselves when it comes to the economic approaches required to implement these reforms. For example, in regards to investments and the creation of employment, ...; Created on 08 February 2018
20. A year with a bitter taste in environmental matters in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of land and have destroyed what previously were forests, protected mangroves and basic grain crops in, said Patrocinio Dubón, president of the Lower Lempa Water Association. In addition, water defenders ...; Created on 01 February 2018

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