Edgardo Ayala - IPS
The installations of the silver mine located in the rural municipality of San Rafael Las Flores, in Guatemala, have been closed since 2017, as the result of a Constitutional Court ...
... to play out and that decisions be made based on the rule of law. As part of this, we call on KCA to drop its suit.
We call for the immediate demilitarization of the region, specifically the municipality ...
... 100,000 cartons of coca cola every day. Experts project that, at the current rate of extraction, this aquifer will be exhausted in approximately 30 years. Meanwhile, the 30,000 inhabitants of the municipality ...
... of La Puya, and determined that the mining company and the municipality violated the rights of the communities to a prior consultation, and ordered the mining firm to suspend the construction of infrastructure. ...
Edgardo Ayala - IPS News
(IMAGE) Residents of the municipality of San Rafael Las Flores maintain a permanent sit-down in front of the Constitutional Court, in the centre of Guatemala’s capital, to demand ...
... companies.
A case in point is one of the Philippines' largest open pit mines: that of Australian-Canadian mining giant OceanaGold in the municipality of Didipio in Nueva Vizcaya. OceanaGold has been ...
... and Development - ARDM
Association of Communities for the Development of Chalatenango (CCR)
Guatemala:
Indigenous Municipality of Cotzal, Resistencia Zona Reina, Uspatán Quiché
Departmental ...
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, ...
... the community in San José Las Flores, Chalatenango.
In the community of Los Prados, in the municipality of La Laguna, Chalatenango, CRIPDES held a forum on "Cross border mining in El Salvador". The ...
... country. In the municipality of Cinquera, a referendum at the end of February kept the issue front and center just weeks before the national General Assembly voted to pass a blanket law against metallic ...