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1. Salvadoran environmental defenders detained for decades-old crimes: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... role in securing a historic mining ban in El Salvador have been detained accused of civil war era and gang-related crimes, in what rights groups fear is a ruse to restart mining. Miguel Ángel Gámez, ...; Created on 04 April 2023
2. Crime in Cabañas: (Mining and Human Rights); The Crime in Cabañas Originally Published in the print newspaper Voces February 22, 2010 Translated by Jan Morrill Between August and December 2009 at least five people were assassinated in ...; Created on 20 March 2012
3. Semana Internacional de Accion para Demandar la Libertad de los 5 Defensores de Santa Marta y ADES: (Free the Santa Marta 5); ... para derogar la ley. A pesar de la popularidad del presidente, principalmente debido a su línea dura hacia las pandillas y el crimen, la economía salvadoreña está en crisis y el gobierno necesita desesperadamente ...; Created on 09 April 2023
4. International Week of Action Free the Santa Marta 5: (Free the Santa Marta 5); ... the law. Despite the president’s popularity, mostly due to his hard-line approach to gangs and crime, the Salvadoran economy is failing and the government is in desperate need to attract foreign investment. In ...; Created on 08 April 2023
5. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... motives behind the arrests. Furthermore, the five organizers are being prosecuted by a specialized war-crimes team set up by Bukele, raising worries that the ruling may be dictated from above for political ...; Created on 06 April 2023
6. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... in El Salvador that claimed the lives of 75,000," explained the organizations. "The victims of crimes from that war, which saw a U.S.-backed dictatorship and right-wing death squads kill tens of thousands, ...; Created on 20 January 2023
7. Santa Marta Community Leaders Are Persecuted in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... human rights violations and crimes against humanity", which took place against the Santa Marta people. "Today, when the State says to act, it is done to re-victimize the community in something that clearly ...; Created on 19 January 2023
8. Public statement from social movement organizations on the detention of members of the Santa Marta community and ADES in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... contributed enormously to the development of the country, especially in environmental protection in areas such as the fight against metallic mining. 2. We are not opposed to investigating crimes committed ...; Created on 13 January 2023
9. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... has created the conditions for its entire structure to be against human rights defenders. And not only in Honduras, but we are talking about regions all over the world. That is why it becomes a crime for ...; Created on 25 December 2021
10. To the General Public, The Peaceful Resistance of La Puya states: (La Puya International Support Letter); ... other things. The case is in the charge of the Magistrate of the 4th Court (for criminal, drug activity, and crimes against the environment), in session from the 25th March 2021, the judge in charge ...; Created on 23 May 2021
11. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support: (Mining and Human Rights); ... rights, in practice, they have served to prop up Canada’s predatory, globe-trotting mining industry. Crimes and Misconduct Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has recently criticized ...; Created on 07 May 2021
12. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... El Salvador’s attorney general’s office classified the killing as a “common gang crime,” but the water defenders were convinced that mining interests and their local political allies had masterminded the ...; Created on 23 April 2021
13. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... murder—nor the subsequent murders of other water defenders—but called it a “common gang crime” and arrested a few “gang members.” We never learn, however, what those “gang members” said about Rivera’s ...; Created on 11 April 2021
14. US Senators introduce bill to tackle corruption & rights violations in Honduras - cite Guapinol case: (Mining and Human Rights); ... hold Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, national officials, and members of the police and military accountable for these crimes will fuel widespread poverty and violence and force more families ...; Created on 23 February 2021
15. Honduran justice denies defenders of the Guapinol river to wait for their trial in freedom: (Regional News); ... Los Pinares company property owned by couple Lenir Pérez and Ana Facussé, son-in-law and daughter, respectively, of the late businessman Miguel Facussé Barjum, were initially charged with the crimes of ...; Created on 28 December 2020
16. Canadian corporate greed on display in Mexico mining dispute: (Regional News); ... kilometres north of Los Filos in Guerrero state, as well as others elsewhere in the country, as industrial mines in Mexico have become targets for extortion by organized crime, often in collusion with ...; Created on 28 November 2020
17. How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources: (Mining and Human Rights); ... protesters held in pre-trial detention since 2019 for alleged crimes linked to their opposition to an iron oxide mine which threatens to contaminate their water supply. Five more water defenders from Guapinol, ...; Created on 07 October 2020
18. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); Jackie McVicar AmericaMagazine Every Wednesday morning, Gabriela Sorto wakes up early to make lunch for her dad, Porfirio. He has not been convicted of a crime but, along with six other local men ...; Created on 25 September 2020
19. 5 Garífuna Leaders Are Still Missing in Honduras: (Regional News); ... racist and corrupt Honduran state has denied the Garífuna people opportunities and as a result of all the crimes that have been committed against us, we have been forced to migrate to seek a better life ...; Created on 03 September 2020
20. One year on and Honduran Environmental Defenders still in jail without trial: (Mining and Human Rights); ... also handed themselves in a few months later, but paradoxically, the judge issued a pre-trial detention order. No evidence of the alleged crimes having taken place was presented, not to mention evidence ...; Created on 01 September 2020

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