Photos/translation: Marina Bonetti
Citizens of the communities of Cicachuite, Cerro Grande, Teosinte, Chavarria, El Sitio, Los Rivera, Los Guardado, El Portillo, Los Alas, Los Orellana, Los Merino, ...
... by Canadian based corporations Pacific Rim, which has an exploration license at Cerro Petancol in the town of Potonico, and Au Martinique, now Triad, which owns licenses to explore three concessions within ...
... 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 ...
... Salvador Sanchez Ceren was emphatic in his statement that he will advocate for the suspension of all mining activity in the Trifinio Reserve area, alluding to the Cerro Blanco mining project located in ...
... river on which El Salvador depends for 60% of its drinking water. Guatemala has allowed construction of the Cerro Blanco mine within the reserve despite opposition from Honduras and from the Salvadoran ...
... moral force the Salvadoran government to require Guatemala and Honduras to suspend mining projects located at the borders. Projects such as the Cerro Blanco mine threatens to contaminate the Trifinio ...
... final day saw the delegation split into two groups with some heading to Asuncion Mita, Guatemala to meet with local community leaders and visit the Cerro Blanco Mine, while the second group travelled to ...
... if the government can not prevent a mine which may cause damage in El Salvador.
Salvadoran environmental organizations have complained that the Cerro Blanco mine, located in Jutiapa, Guatemala, could ...
... (3) the town of Asunción Mita, department of Jutiapa, Guatemala, on the border with El Salvador, where Goldcorp’s Cerro Blanco gold project threatens a transnational watershed and could provoke a transborder ...
... Pacific Rim has its operations, and will have the choice to either visit the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala or San Sebastian mine in the western region of El Salvador.
PROGRAM:
We are still working ...
... of these trans-border projects is Cerro Blanco, a mine proposed for an area of Guatemala immediately adjacent to El Salvador and in the heart of the Río Lempa headwaters. It’s one of the issues Vidalina ...
COMMUNITIES AND ORGANIZATIONS REJECT CERRO BLANCO MINE AND DEMAND THE GOVERNMENT OF GUATEMALA TO ORDERS ITS IMMEDIATE SUSPENSION. February 26, 2013
Communities and organizations convened under ...
... for more than 40 mining projects to begin operating in the border region and 14 in Guatemala that have the potential for cross border contamination. Most notorious is Goldcorp’s Cerro Blanco gold mining ...
... of mining in El Salvador.
The Mesa is also worried about possible contamination from upstream mining projects just over the border in Guatemala and Honduras. Goldcorp’s Cerro Blanco mine, for example, ...
... violations to the human rights of Salvadorans by cross border contamination stemming from the Cerro Blanco project located in Guatemala, and recent legislation in the neighboring country of Honduras that ...
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rodriguez.almazan.emilio@gmail.com
Frente Amplio Opositor a Minera San Xavier (FAO)
México
proyecto.cerro.sp@gmail.com
La Asamblea Veracruzana de Iniciativas ...
... Salvador. Recently, the Guatemalan government approved the permits for the Cerro Blanco mine: a mine is located a short 14 km from the main source of the Lempa, the Guija Lake. The Guija Lake is a natural ...
... la oportunidad para visitar el departamento de Cabañas, donde la compañía Pacific Rim tiene sus operaciones, y podrán elegir viajar hasta la mina de Cerro Blanco en Guatemala o a la mina de San Sebastián ...
... include the Santa Rita and Zamora-Cerro Colorado gold projects in El Salvador and a number of very early stage grassroots properties elsewhere in Central America. Pacific Rim maintains a generative program ...