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21. Honduran Land Defenders Receive the prestigious Letelier-Moffit award in Washington: (Regional News); ... industries, disputes related to the implementation of large tourism complexes, control routes for narcotrafficking and more recently the introduction of mining have added to the complexity of the land ...; Created on 24 October 2019
22. Central American antimining activists gather in El Salvador to discuss joint strategies for action: (Media Releases); ... at strengthening the dialogue, knowledge exchange and analysis of the impacts of the extractive industries in the CA4 region, particularly focusing on: Continuing the information exchange and analysis ...; Created on 05 May 2019
23. ENDORSERS / SIGNATARIOS: (La Puya International Support Letter); ... MiningWatch Canada Projet Accompagnement Québec-Guatemala (CANADA) People's Health Movement Extractive Industries Working Group (CANADA) RightOnCanada (CANADA) St James United Church Social Justice ...; Created on 25 February 2019
24. Central Americans Demand to be Consulted About Mining Projects: (Regional News); ... power in the face of the activities of the extractive industries in Central America. (IMAGE) In the municipality of Casillas, in the department of Santa Rosa, in Guatemala, local inhabitants erected ...; Created on 09 May 2018
25. Church in El Salvador backs law declaring clean, affordable water as a human right: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... of the resource. “Water is monopolized and contaminated by industries,” Archbishop Escobar Alas says. “There isn’t a law that guarantees the access to water for the poor, the people, the multitudes, ...; Created on 08 May 2018
26. COMMUNIQUE: The State of the Right to Free Prior and Informed Consent in the CA4 Region: (Media Releases); ... shared strategies of struggle as we face the challenges that the extractive industries and the governments impose on the people. Since colonization, the world powers have promoted policies of plundering ...; Created on 08 May 2018
27. Lack of proposals from political candidates on the Environmental Crisis in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... by extractive industries led a fight for 12 years. However, a change in the political balance of power in the new Legislative Assembly, could regress the long fight to protect the human rights to water, ...; Created on 08 February 2018
28. Latin American Women Weaving Territories: (Media Releases); PRESS RELEASE WOMEN OF GUATEMALA, HONDURAS AND EL SALVADOR DENOUNCE THE IMPACTS OF THE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES The women of the Peaceful Resistance La Puya and the Municipality of Mataquescuintla, ...; Created on 01 February 2018
29. Cross border mining will be the next phase of the anti-mining struggle in El Salvador: (Cerro Blanco); ... topic was discussed with members of different communities while discussing economic alternatives and social alliances facing the threat of extractive industries in countries with shared borders. Sister ...; Created on 14 November 2017
30. Western University Professor Brings El Salvador Anti-Mining Struggle to Canadian Audience: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... challenges facing El Salvador and environmental activists who live there. Although mining is one of Canada’s primary industries, many Canadians are unaware of the impact that mines can have in the global ...; Created on 08 March 2017
31. FMLN Will Vote for the Ban on the Mining Industry in the Country: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... we are convinced that metal mining is one of the most environmentally destructive industries and therefore, one of the leading contaminators of water through the use of chemicals like cyanide and arsenic ...; Created on 10 February 2017
32. For grassroots organizations, the fight to protect water and local communities continues, now on a larger scale: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... industries. Along with other rural organizations, they created the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining, which was crucial in achieving the positive ruling in favor of the Central American country. ...; Created on 10 November 2016
33. Community of San Jose Las Flores commemorates 11th anniversary of the defeat of a mining company.: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... in the resistance against the mine. "We found that mining is one of the most contaminating industries that exists, it had destroyed rivers, it contaminated the soil, it had created conditions unfit for ...; Created on 27 September 2016
34. PRESS RELEASE: Not to the blackmail of Pacific Rim Mining/Oceana Gold: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... II. That, 5 years after the EAE, the conditions of vulnerability have worsened; which makes the development of extractive industries, particularly metal mining, in the country unviable. Making the arguments ...; Created on 26 September 2016
35. NEW BOOK: Rethinking Bilateral Trade Agreements: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); Republished from Both ENDS See chapter on "ISDS, Extractive Industries and the Pacific Rim vs El Salvador case" on page 231, written by Sarah Anderson and Manuel Perez Rocha from the Institute for Policy ...; Created on 11 May 2016
36. Dirty Metals: Mining, Communities and the Environment: (General Environment Backrounders); ... into water sources. The mining industries usually come to an area with the promise of creating jobs and boosting the economy; however, many people end up losing their livelihoods to these industries, as ...; Created on 23 April 2016
37. El Salvador: ‘We will never lose our faith’: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... negative impacts of mining and extractive industries. Hope is the last thing you lose. In El Salvador we will continue to push the government and legislative assembly for a total prohibition on mining. ...; Created on 19 March 2016
38. Bill Clinton Leads Sinister Business Alliance in El Salvador: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Mexican telecom magnate Carlos Slim, and Canadian businessman Frank Giustra, who has made a career out of major investments worldwide in mining, from gold and diamonds to uranium, among other industries. ...; Created on 19 November 2015
39. Urgent! Strengthening a powerful global voice in defence of life: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the biggest of his battles, and conveyed a convincing signal to the World Bank, the mining industries, and most importantly to the UN, so that it might intervene in changing the mechanism that now allows ...; Created on 29 September 2015
40. Municipality of San Jose Las Flores declared the first territory free of mining in El Salvador: (Territories Free of Mining); ... "We found that mining is one of the most contaminating industries that exists, it had destroyed rivers, it had created conditions unfit for human living and we met people full of skin sores who told us ...; Created on 24 September 2014

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