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1. URGENT COMMUNIQUE: To the people of Asuncion Mita, the national and international community: (Cerro Blanco); ... is legal because the notification to the commission regarding the injunction was delivered three days after the consultation took place. In addition, there is relevant jurisprudence in three previous consultations ...; Created on 23 September 2022
2. The Cerro Blanco mine and the right to consultation: (Cerro Blanco); ... rights of Guatemalan citizens to be consulted on important matters that could affect their lives and territories. Sowing division in the communities Following the results of the consultations where ...; Created on 22 September 2022
3. PRESS RELEASE: The municipal consultation on Cerro Blanco mine is valid and legitimate: (Cerro Blanco); ... of Neighbors of Asunción Mita reported that during Sunday´s vote, 27.91% of the registered voters participated. Guatemala has carried out 180 municipal consultations on metallic mining projects. There ...; Created on 21 September 2022
4. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... resources by extractive industries. They submitted five requests for public consultations and held demonstrations in front of city hall. They also erected a “Camp in Defence of Water and Life” to block ...; Created on 06 May 2021
5. The trial for Guapinol water defender Jeremías Martínez begins today in Tegucigalpa, Honduras: (Mining and Human Rights); ... oxide mine. By 2017 the Municipal Committee for the Defence of Public and Common Goods had been created and called for public consultations so that community members could decide whether they wanted ...; Created on 22 February 2021
6. Timeline: Guatemala mine suspensions: (Regional News); ... for the assets. The injunctions – which have also derailed Solway Investment Group’s Fénix nickel mine and Kappes, Cassiday & Associates’ Tambor gold operation – have hinged on the lack of prior consultations ...; Created on 23 July 2020
7. The Peaceful Resistance of La Puya fights for the right to water: (Regional News); ... response to their request for a dialogue. July 15, 2015 -- A constitutional court rules against the mine and directs the company to hold community consultations with those who are impacted by the mine. ...; Created on 03 May 2019
8. Rural Communities’ Struggle Against US-Owned Mine Continues in Guatemalan Supreme Court: (Regional News); ... The owner Daniel Kappes and the firm’s lawyer have argued that they held a consultation; but Judge Angelica Noemi Tellez Hernandez clearly states that the firm did not hold consultations with the affected ...; Created on 27 August 2018
9. Central Americans Demand to be Consulted About Mining Projects: (Regional News); ... 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 ...; Created on 09 May 2018
10. The dilemma of artisanal miners after the mining prohibition in El Salvador: (Commerce Group); ... An email response by staff member of Presidential Coordination Office states in a typical bureaucratic fashion that “we are doing internal consultations to inform you about the status of the situation ...; Created on 07 May 2018
11. In El Salvador, a moment more precious than gold: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... that the university began, two years ago, to develop a proposal for a bill prohibiting metallic mining. After a lengthy process of consultations with civil society organizations and other key actors, the ...; Created on 26 June 2017
12. Transnational mining company loses the battle, but the war continues.: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... mining activity in their jurisdictions, with support from the anti-mining movement, and the vast majority of voters have opposed it. As a result of these consultations, they adopted municipal ordinances ...; Created on 05 January 2017
13. Pacific Rim tried to negotiate with the government anticipating and adverse ruling: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... lawyers, had heard anything from the Pacific Rim Company," said Parada. Faced with such a request and after the respective institutional consultations, the Attorney General's Office (FGR), who is also ...; Created on 26 September 2016
14. Arcatao: participatory democracy defeats mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... a total of four consultations in the Department of Chalatenango. In order to assure the complete coverage of the whole region, other six referenda of the sort should be set up in neighboring municipalities. ...; Created on 11 November 2015
15. Arcatao Community Consultation: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Consultations, or municipal referendums in which the voting population asserts their preference on the issue. The first three Consultations took place in 2014 in San Jose Las Flores, San Isidro Labrador, ...; Created on 30 September 2015
16. Nueva Trinidad: 3rd Municipality in El Salvador to Declare Itself a “Mining Free Territory”: (Territories Free of Mining); ... in El Salvador follows several community consultations that have occurred in Central America, such as in the municipality of Santo Domingo in Honduras and the municipality of Mataquescuintla in Guatemala. ...; Created on 18 April 2015
17. SECOND MUNICIPALITY DECLARED FREE OF METAL MINING IN EL SALVADOR: (Territories Free of Mining); ... to organize, educate and collect signatures in order to petition municipal councils to hold consultations on mining. Following the request by community organizations, municipal councils must vote on ...; Created on 01 December 2014
18. Municipality of San Jose Las Flores declared the first territory free of mining in El Salvador: (Territories Free of Mining); P. Cabezas Anti mining activists poised to organize at least ten more consultations in the Chalatenango region by the end of 2015. September 21st, marked another historic day for San Jose Las Flores, ...; Created on 24 September 2014
19. HOW TO SUPPORT IMA: (International Month of Action); HOW TO SUPPORT THE INTERNATIONAL MONTH OF SOLIDARITY Have your organization endorse an open letter to the CEO and President of OceanaGold. Sign a petition asking OceanaGold to leave El Salvador. To ...; Created on 04 September 2014
20. CALL OUT: International observer delegation, September 2014: (2014 International Delegation); “CHALATENANGO FREE OF MINING” Community Consultations on mining in El Salvador September 2014 Communities in the department of Chalatenango have been at the forefront of organized opposition to ...; Created on 07 August 2014

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