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1. Alejandro Guevara: “It was the communities who built the resistance against metallic mining”: (Mining and Human Rights); Gloria Orellana : CoLatino "As relatives of the victims, we are still awaiting for justice to be made, and this event is to commemorate and recognize their lives," said Alejandro Guevara, at the seven ...; Created on 03 January 2017
2. The Cerro Blanco mine and the right to consultation: (Cerro Blanco); ... suffer the worst consequences. At Cerro Blanco, the company has proposed a filtered tailings storage facility will be built in dangerous proximity to communities that would be banned in many countries ...; Created on 22 September 2022
3. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... in the town of San Isidro, in Cabañas, by going door-to-door to collect donated books. They built a few shelves in their family’s living room and called it the San Isidro Foundation for Culture and the ...; Created on 11 April 2021
4. WATER IS LIFE. CAN WE PROTECT IT?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... They froze without showers, toilets, or washing machines — let alone drinking water — for days or even weeks. The irony that Texas, the state built on fossil fuels, was completely unprepared for extreme ...; Created on 28 March 2021
5. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... specialist. María Luisa Torres lives in El Junquillo, a few meters from Carmelo, in an area where crickets can be heard and the shade of the trees hardly allows you to see her humble home built with ...; Created on 05 January 2021
6. U.S.-Backed ANDA Appointment Threatens the Salvadoran People’s Water Resources: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... 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 ...; Created on 01 December 2020
7. New Report: Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: Countering Kappes, Cassiday & Associates’ Claims over a Gold-mining Project in Guatemala: (Regional News); ... incomplete environmental impact assessment. It built its mine without a construction license and through violent repression of local communities by private security and state-armed forces under a corrupt ...; Created on 24 August 2020
8. Anglo American responses to AGM queries raise more questions than they answer: (Mining and Human Rights); ... tropical dry forest, one of the most threatened ecosystems in Colombia. Cerrejón built an artificial flow to divert the Arroyo by more than 3 kilometers. The idea was to divert the stream through an ...; Created on 22 July 2020
9. Ostúa River contaminated with lead and arsenic from Cerro Blanco mine: (Cerro Blanco); ... water was clear and it did not look the way it does now... This is the result of the mine that is being built," she stated. Now, the water from the Ostúa River has a greenish color due to contamination, ...; Created on 21 April 2020
10. The dilemma of artisanal miners after the mining prohibition in El Salvador: (Commerce Group); ... than 26 barrels of cyanide each were left exposed. The minimal social infrastructure the company had built, a community center and a clinic, were closed, the dusty road that leads to San Sebastian was ...; Created on 07 May 2018
11. Cross border mining will be the next phase of the anti-mining struggle in El Salvador: (Cerro Blanco); ... should be built with support from various communities, from neighboring countries, as well the support from international organizations to ensure that multilateral initiatives such as the human right to ...; Created on 14 November 2017
12. Historic Wins for Democracy and Rights in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... groups in El Salvador for the past eight years, and who are also founding members of International Allies. They built their fight as frontline human rights defenders, who were valuing water over gold. ...; Created on 26 June 2017
13. El Salvador – When The Seeds Of Resistance Bloom: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... and strategy. We can never forget the basics of organising. Powerful narratives rooted in local realities, told and amplified well, are a powerful and unifying force. Relationships built on trust and intentional, ...; Created on 23 June 2017
14. Community of San Jose Las Flores commemorates 11th anniversary of the defeat of a mining company.: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... for the company to ever enter their territory, religious members of the mostly Catholic community built, in 2006, a 1500 pound effigy of the Virgin Mary and carried it in pilgrimage through more than 10 ...; Created on 27 September 2016
15. Commerce Group Mining Corporation required to pay for environmental clean up of the San Sebastian mine.: (Commerce Group); ... from mining process has created a public health disaster; the housing situation of many residents in the community is precarious due to the uncertainty about title to the land where they have built their ...; Created on 02 March 2016
16. In the Keystone Suit, It’s Big Oil vs. Democracy: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... reason to expect that the project permit would be granted, since similar pipelines have been built before. And as ridiculous as this sounds, tribunals have interpreted international investor protections in ...; Created on 02 February 2016
17. Resistance against the bloodsucker: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... plateau where the mine entrance used to be, and from where open tunnels still lead into the mountain. Artisanal miners have built shelters out of wooden posts, under shady aluminum roofs: with hammocks ...; Created on 03 January 2016
18. Urgent! Strengthening a powerful global voice in defence of life: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... tells us that her house was built with the earnings derived from artisanal mining; however, the opportunities were terminated with the entrance of Oceana Gold, who now owns the mine. Marsh tells us: “Now ...; Created on 29 September 2015
19. Municipality of San Jose Las Flores declared the first territory free of mining in El Salvador: (Territories Free of Mining); ... of the mostly Catholic community built, in 2006, a 900 pound effigy of the Virgin Mary and carried it in pilgrimage through more than five Kilometres of steep mountainous paths to build a temple at the ...; Created on 24 September 2014
20. MUA joins fresh OceanaGold protests: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... for its case against El Salvador. It said Australia had also built ISDS clauses into some trade agreements and could be at risk of similar lawsuits in the future. “What if, one day, Australia decided ...; Created on 11 September 2014

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