... discuss the impact of the Cerro Blanco Mine in El Salvador.
Days six and seven:
Participate as international observers in a community consultation process in Chalatenango.
Day eight:
Press ...
... in advocating for a mining ban.
The communities most affected by the introduction of mining projects in the country are the northern farming communities of the departments of Metapan, Chalatenango, ...
... Portillo, the mayor of Texistepeque, and Reynaldo Cardoza, a federal congressman from Chalatenango, are also allegedly active in the group’s leadership. Insight Crime writes: “Their political links, which ...
... projects were granted in El Salvador, 23 licenses are currently active across the northern region including the departments of Cabañas, Chalatenango, Santa Ana, La Unión and Morazán. In 2009, with ...
... the Madison-Arcatao Sister City project which has been working with CRIPDES and the community of Arcatao, Chalatenango for 26 years. Throughout the years we have been working together around issues facing ...
... and spirited event, with speeches from community leaders, chants and a hilarious anti-mining play presented by a youth theater group from Chalatenango.
For the Mesa’s press release in English about ...
... policies in those areas. In Chalatenango, the FMLN maintained control of the majority of municipalities that would be affected by mining (Arctatao, Nueva Trinidad, San José Las Flores, and Nueva Concepción, ...
... de El Salvador, CRIPDES
La Mesa Nacional Frente la Mineria Metalica
La Asociación de Comunidades para el Desarrollo de Chalatenango, CCR
Chicago Religious Leadership Network ...
Another Example of a National Unified Mining Resistance
In December, fifteen high school students from Carasque, Chalatenango piled into a van and made the six hour trek from their home to Santa Rosa ...