... Blanco mining project in Jutiapa, and its re-opening by Bluestone Resources.
The OIE was created with the intention of contributing data on the extractive industry in Guatemala from an independent perspective. ...
... Claims over a Gold-mining Project in Guatemala, examines Kappes, Cassiday & Associates (KCA) attempt to strong-arm the Guatemalan government through international arbitration into green-lighting the unwanted ...
... because the local authorities excused themselves from making decisions around the conflicting project of the company Inversiones Los Pinares.
Far from listening to the community´s demands, the town hall ...
... of the intention to sue by Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. (Odyssey) for the cancellation of the Don Diego project, under Chapter XI, on investment, of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). ...
... told IPS while moving about in the kitchen set up in an improvised camp, which IPS visited on Apr. 29.
The lack of prior consultations with the communities where such projects are installed is a recurrent ...
Sandra Cuffe : Waging NonViolence
Communities and organizations in northern El Salvador continue to organize referendums in an effort to keep their territories free of mining. Established by the country’s ...
... peasant and indigenous movements from Honduras and El Salvador was to assess the reality and experiences that both nations face in relation to "megaprojects" that generate forced migration of populations, ...
By: Oscar López -CoLatino / Translated by: Marco Melloni
People of different communities in the San Isidro municipality, region of Cabañas, manifested their opposition to a metal mining project in the ...
... led by members organizations of the National Roundtable Against Mining, La Mesa, in the region of Chalatenango and it is intended to inspire other communities threatened by metallic mining projects in ...
... to finally stop mining projects in El Salvador ," said Vidalina Morales, a representative of coalition opposing mining.
Morales explained that the organizations fighting metal mining are convinced that ...
Given the recent announcement by Goldcorp Inc. on the indefinite suspension of the Cerro Blanco mining project, the most advanced project in the border of El Salvador and Guatemala, the National Roundtable ...
... Salvador to deliver a letter addressed to Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina to express concerns related to the Cerro Blanco mining project in the border with El Salvador.
The letter delivered ...
... been facing the expansion of palm plantations, tourist developments, mining, drug trafficking, and the government project known as the Economic Development Zones (Zonas de Desarrollo Económico ZEDE).
Miriam ...
... their urban development projects, thereby generating scarcity in impoverished populations; two emblematic cases of these practices are the Agreements signed between ANDA and the Dueñas and Poma families, ...
... UCA, showed that 79.5% of participants considered El Salvador to be an inappropriate country for mining metals. In the same survey, 76% of those surveyed were opposed to the opening of mining projects ...
... starts with a historical background of mining companies in El Salvador, the resistance against a series of mining projects that began operating unannounced in communities in the early 2000s, the resistance ...
... spoke of a particular project.
Cardinal Rosa Chávez said he did not know the content of the project, but hopes that "what has been done so far will be taken into account", and described the way in which ...
Minería Panamericana
Anglo American mining company has filed a lawsuit against a ban preventing Colombian coal miner Cerrejón from developing its La Puente project.
The latest lawsuit comes after Cerrejón ...
... such as the Central America–Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR), which have been imposed on Guatemalans. This framework favors the development of large-scale mining and energy projects that ...
... to come. What nature worked on and harnessed to develop in millennia will be gone in 25 years (the lifetime of a “Financial and Technical Assistance Agreement” for mining projects in the Philippines). ...