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1. Pan American Silver Pressured to Shut Down Community Interference in Guatemala: (Mining and Human Rights); Counterpunch Jen Moore In the wake of a shooting attack, death threats, and fear of further violence against members of the peaceful resistance to Pan American Silver’s Escobal silver mine in Guatemala, ...; Created on 12 May 2021
2. WATER IS LIFE. CAN WE PROTECT IT?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... destroyed one of the country’s largest salmon fisheries. In Arizona, activists successfully pressured the Biden administration to more carefully evaluate a proposed giant, water-depleting copper mine on ...; Created on 28 March 2021
3. U.S.-Backed ANDA Appointment Threatens the Salvadoran People’s Water Resources: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... But in 2013, the U.S. Embassy in El Salvador pressured for a new round of privatizations through a Public Private Partnership Law, which the U.S. required El Salvador to adopt in order to receive $277 ...; Created on 01 December 2020
4. New Report: Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: Countering Kappes, Cassiday & Associates’ Claims over a Gold-mining Project in Guatemala: (Regional News); ... and despite this, they pressured the government to repress us. That’s exactly what happened on May 23, 2014 and how they managed to operate for two years,” remarks Álvaro Sandoval, member of the Peaceful ...; Created on 24 August 2020
5. Pandemic fuels mining extraction in Latin America: (Regional News); ... governments pressured by the lobby of the mining industry seek to silence the protests and use the current crisis to promote changes in national regulations that favor mining activities, at the cost of ...; Created on 09 August 2020
6. Uncertainty in communities of Asuncion Mita due to the imminent reopening of the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala: (Cerro Blanco); ... the ministry´s technical team, then the company resorted to corruption and pressured the Minister of Environment to remove the technical team that had rejected that study. They succeeded, the team was ...; Created on 03 May 2019
7. Water 2.0 - Salvadoreans take to the streets to battle renewed attempts to privatize water resources: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... on water legislation, but hinting to privatization. Since 2006, environmental organizations of El Salvador have pressured lawmakers to approve laws that recognize water as a human right and as a common ...; Created on 24 June 2018
8. The dilemma of artisanal miners after the mining prohibition in El Salvador: (Commerce Group); ... abandoned the mine in 2006, but still holds title to the land where an estimate of 300-500 artisanal miners currently operate. In 2006 the Ministry of the Environment (MARN), pressured by public outcry, ...; Created on 07 May 2018
9. In El Salvador, OceanaGold Must ‘Pay Up and Pack Up’: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... level organizations pressured for a prohibition on any industrial metal mining in the the country, given its already stressed water supplies, vulnerability to climate change and population density. Pacific ...; Created on 03 March 2017
10. Bill Clinton Leads Sinister Business Alliance in El Salvador: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... programs. Furthermore, in 2011 he pressured El Salvador’s Ministry of Labor to dissolve the union at an AVX-Kyocera plant that manufactures SIM cards for his phone companies. Workers had formed the union ...; Created on 19 November 2015
11. Christian Romero Initiative and Stop Mad Mining invite Bernardo Belloso from CRIPDES to Europe: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... to refuse a permit for a gold and silver mine in Rosia Montana. The population in the surrounding areas of the mine along with numerous NGOs, had pressured the government for years. Thanks to the support ...; Created on 28 October 2015
12. El Salvador, violence and impunity: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Alexander Pérez.” Ramiro’s brother claims that he was pressured by the prosecution while giving evidence, and threatened with imprisonment. Alejandro Guevara says those imprisoned were responsible for ...; Created on 13 February 2014
13. El Salvador faces "international mafias" in "frivolous" international law suits ...: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... in the U.S. to prepare the counterclaim to ENEL Green Power. La Mesa Against Metallic Mining in El Salvador noted in the statement that Salvadoran political parties, "are especially prone to being pressured ...; Created on 23 October 2013
14. Salvadorans Pressure the Attorney General to Ensure Justice: (Mining and Human Rights); ... from Radio Victoria pressured him as to why there had not been results in their case, is almost over three years old, he said they are still investigating. He also said that the Mesa should pressure ...; Created on 26 April 2012
15. Ruling Rejected in the Case of Murdered Environmentalists: (Mining and Human Rights); ... to testify against the accused during the judicial process, he was pressured by the Attorney General’s office and they tried to intimidate him by threatening to incarcerate him if he testified. Pineda, ...; Created on 18 April 2012

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