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During the meeting, taking place in the municipality of Ataco, Ahuachapán, attendees shared experiences with anti-mining activists of Peru who talked about the struggles, policies, social and environmental ...
... Morales the authorities of the MARN must explain the legal situation of OceanaGold mining company in the department of Cabañas.
The Anti-Mining Law established that the Guiriceros had two years to abandon ...
... Illacutipa, one of the other people prosecuted following the Aymarazo, who said that they are continuously labelled as “radicals, anti-mining, anti-system, anti-development” and that this is outrageous. ...
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The second consists of "media smear campaigns, via radio, television and online, in which we are labeled as anti-mining terrorists, environmental terrorists, or as being anti-development." Lauracio spoke in ...
... incurred along the way, including the unresolved assassinations of four anti-mining activists in 2009. Morales reminded those present that “We cannot talk about the 25th anniversary of Radio Victoria and ...
Andrés McKinley - UK LAB
On March 29th, 2017, the small country of El Salvador became the first nation in the world to exercise its sovereign right to say “no” to metallic mining after carefully analyzing ...
... on the way to the mine. Other transit points have also been blocked by the “resistance”, as the anti-mining protesters refer to themselves.
“The first thing we want, for God’s sake, is for them ...
... extractive activities in Guatemala or Honduras.
Vidalina Morales, a member of ADES and an anti-mining activist involved in the movement since its beginnings, stressed that the mining industry is harmful ...
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In 2005, the various local anti-mining groups formed the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining. They were joined by a mix of other national organizations and eventually came to a consensus that ...
... in mind the “anti-mining movement conducted its successful opposition to mining as the defense of water for the defense of life” Said Vidalina Morales from the Association for the development of El Salvador, ...
John Cavanagh, Robin Broad : RAPPLER
OceanaGold was stunningly defeated in El Salvador last March. Can it be defeated in the Philippines by 2019?
In March 2017, the small nation of El Salvador took ...
... Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) against El Salvador. It is also the same year when three anti-mining community leaders and an unborn baby were brutally murdered in northern El Salvador, ...
... and 187 homes had been bulldozed and burned in the process.
In 2011, the human rights ombudsperson called on the central government to suspend OceanaGold's permit to mine, and was refused.
Two anti-mining ...
... deadly. Several anti-mining activists were murdered in the state of Cabañas, where the company planned to mine.
OceanaGold’s case was heard by an international tribunal overseen by the World Bank. In ...
... was arrogant and made mistakes. It helped that El Salvador’s Human Rights Ombudsman embraced environmental rights as human rights, and stood up for the communities after several anti-mining supporters ...
... World Bank case, but also look at some aspects of the simultaneous effort to support the anti-mining struggle on the ground in El Salvador. The international legal case was just one of a range of intervention ...
... after community, majorities voted to impose bans within their borders.
The anti-mining movement was able to bridge deeply partisan divides and rally supporters with the slogan “No to Mining! Yes to Life!” ...
... vote to ban mining.
But the push for a mining prohibition remained strong. To support the anti-mining coalition, Carlos Padilla, Governor of Nueva Vizcaya in the Philippines, visited El Salvador to share ...
... for the Executive and Legislative authorities to create the legal regulations that allow the ban of metallic mining,” advocated Luis González from the Mesa Nacional Frente a la Minería.
The anti-mining ...
... mining activity in their jurisdictions, with support from the anti-mining movement, and the vast majority of voters have opposed it.
As a result of these consultations, they adopted municipal ordinances ...