... Police in order to force fuel tankers in the mining site; a local leader was arrested but also bailed out the following day.
Gina Lopez’s ‘maverick leadership” remembered
A posthumous award was also ...
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... would be a terrible idea. Those interested in environmental justice should watch the water defenders’ trial, and the broader debate around mining in El Salvador, very closely.
Original source: https://jacobin.com/2023/02/el-salvador-mining-ban-threat-water-pollution-nayib-bukele/ ...
... to widespread arbitrary detentions and other abuses, according to United Nations experts.
Original Source https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/14/el-salvador-environmental-defenders-arrested-mining-ban ...
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Maxwell Radin
El Salvador banned all mining of metals in 2017, but environmentalists are concerned that the government is preparing to reverse the decision and bring in international investment. The ...
... forces during the 1980s to remain in impunity, while punishing the leaders of communities, like Santa Marta, who bore the brunt of that very violence."
Original source: https://www.commondreams.org/news/el-salvador-water-defenders ...
... seems to be political revenge," the statement published by CDHAL points out.
Original source: https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Santa-Marta-Community-Leaders-Are-Persecuted-in-El-Salvador-20230119-0006.html ...
... for the nearby town of El Estor daily. According to the residents of Valle de Syria in Honduras, the San Martín mine, in nine years of operations, dried up 19 of the 23 original rivers in the area. And ...
... the country have led to the marginalization and oppression of communities and indigenous peoples, as well as pollution and the destruction of the environment," Guerrero said in a statement.
Kalikasan ...
... cooperatives.
To exemplify the problems that arise around this way of working, we have to travel in our imaginations to the Porco mine in Potosí, an operation under Illapa’s control. In November 2020 ...
... Gina Lopez, a staunch anti-mining advocate, as secretary of the DENR. In her one year in office, Lopez oversaw the closure and/or suspension of permits for 26 mining operations found in violation of environmental ...
... led to the finding the people who actually killed them. But, didn't go beyond to find who may be behind the murders.
Marco Werman: And Marcelo Rivera, how did his story capture the imagination of Salvadorans ...
... you envision who truly has power if we unleash our imaginations and act together.”
—Ai-jen Poo, executive director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, author of The Age of Dignity, and MacArthur ...
... it brazenly violates the ancestral domain rights of our aboriginal constituents who are the Bugkalots-llongots but also on account of OceanaGold’s adamant refusal to settle its local business taxes due ...
... there have also been outcries from communities against possible attempts to take over some of the wells originally built to supply areas ANDA was failing to service that are managed by community water ...
... and peaceful assembly.”
In addition to the eight men detained in 2019, a judge will soon decide whether five others, whose cases were originally dismissed, must also await trial in prison or at home. ...
... men in jail, along with the other five who originally had their case dismissed, now face detention and arson charges. Under Honduran law, these charges do not require the detention of the accused, but ...
... greenwashing.
The historic closure of big mines under the late former environment secretary Gina Lopez has been recently announced by current environment secretary and ex-general Roy Cimatu himself as ...
... aspects of the original NAFTA was that it allowed private corporations to sue governments in international tribunals, demanding compensation for alleged violations of a wide range of investor “rights.” ...
... these people have been marginalized in health care services, or when asking for agricultural packages from state institutions. When representatives of these institutions see that people from Santa Rosa, ...