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21. Honduran Land Defenders Receive the prestigious Letelier-Moffit award in Washington: (Regional News); ... responsible for kidnappings, death threats, and attacks with firearms against members of the resistance. In November 2018, A public relations campaign led by local politicians, corporate media and businessmen ...; Created on 24 October 2019
22. Over two hundred organizations denounce multimillion-dollar suit brought by U.S. mining firm against Guatemala: (Media Releases); ... Office and others. In the letter, organizations argue that the suit “represents a further attack on Guatemala’s judicial system.” They point to mounting pressure on the Constitutional Court from President ...; Created on 04 May 2019
23. Letter of support for defenders of "La Puya" ...: (La Puya International Support Letter); ... supplies, ecosystems and the quality of life in the area. We express our dismay at how this suit represents a further attack on Guatemala’s judicial system. The Constitutional Court is already under ...; Created on 26 February 2019
24. More than one hundred organizations reject the unjust payment of USD $31 million to Canadian mining company Bear Creek: (Regional News); ... such it represents a grave attack on human rights; on freedom of expression; and on social mobilisation”. The case dates back to 2011, when communities in the Puno region mobilized against the Santa ...; Created on 16 September 2018
25. Criminalisation brought to new extremes in case of Aymara indigenous communities in Peru: (Regional News); ... peasant rights. The case of Walter Aduviri and the Aymara people is emblematic of the attacks and threats faced by communities that stand up to defend their basic resources throughout Latin America ...; Created on 28 August 2018
26. Rural Communities’ Struggle Against US-Owned Mine Continues in Guatemalan Supreme Court: (Regional News); ... projects at the site had been completed. Furthermore, it states that these cases represent a violent attack on their investments. “Communities have taken the law into their own hands,” said Maribel Dieguez, ...; Created on 27 August 2018
27. El Salvador – When The Seeds Of Resistance Bloom: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... mining corporation. If ever there was an example of how the seeds of a local battle flowered into a formidable global campaign, it was this one. At a time when organised dissent is both under attack ...; Created on 23 June 2017
28. EL SALVADOR’S WIN AGAINST THE US MINING COMPANY PACIFIC RIM: A VERY NUANCED VICTORY: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... opposed the project, as well as numerous threats and attacks. Finally the arbitration proceedings showed other states that when a government decides in favour of the interests or positions of its population, ...; Created on 28 December 2016
29. Solidarity rally in Toronto as decision released in OceanaGold v. El Salvador case: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... mine in El Salvador, Sorto Recinos was shot and killed as she returned home from doing her laundry. She was eight months pregnant at the time. Her other small child was also injured in the attack. June ...; Created on 10 November 2016
30. PRESS RELEASE: Coalition of Groups States “There are No Winners”: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Mesa). “Pac Rim's presence in El Salvador has fomented local conflict, which has led to threats, attacks, and assassinations. We want OceanaGold, and all the misery it has caused, out of El Salvador, and ...; Created on 14 October 2016
31. CAFTA Investor Rights Undermining Democracy and the Environment: Commerce Group Case: (ISDS); Public Citizen Global Trade Watch The Commerce Group Corporation attacked El Salvador’s environmental policies under the CAFTA when the company’s environmental permits for gold mining in Northeastern ...; Created on 30 April 2016
32. Yes to life, no to mining! – Report Back Delegation to El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... this disease strongly attacks the nervous and immune systems. “The company has not provided the supply of clean water to the population. Instead, we have to buy the expensive water that comes in bottles”, ...; Created on 03 February 2016
33. In the Keystone Suit, It’s Big Oil vs. Democracy: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... to mining were attacked, including Miguel Rivera’s brother Marcelo, who was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered. Miguel himself has been the target of threats and intimidation. As extreme as the corporate ...; Created on 02 February 2016
34. Resistance against the bloodsucker: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... has always denied any involvement in the attacks and murders, blaming criminal gangs; however, it has never shown any sympathy with the victims. The murder of his brother was never prosecuted, neither ...; Created on 03 January 2016
35. Trade Deals Are Giving Corporations the Power to Intimidate Tiny Countries: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... then called to his cell to ask whether anyone in the house had died. Murders, threats, and attacks have followed the environmental activists who oppose a gold mining project in the Cabañas department ...; Created on 13 May 2015
36. Murdered environmental activists remembered: (Mining and Human Rights); ... as a result. He had been attacked on August 7, shot 8 times in the back, while returning on horseback from milking his cows. He survived, and recognized the perpetrator a former employee of the mine. ...; Created on 30 December 2014
37. La Mesa: Our life will be at risk if metal mining projects are allowed: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... despite the enormous risks to the water supply in the country. "We denounce this lawsuit as one more attack to the sovereignty of the Salvadoran people and reiterate our firm desire to further this struggle ...; Created on 22 April 2014
38. FMLN candidate Sanchez Ceren commits to not exploit metal mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... pledged not to allow metal mining in the country. According to the candidate, the exploitation of metal mining is an attack on the population. According to the candidate, the practice is a threat to ...; Created on 24 February 2014
39. El Salvador, violence and impunity: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Salvador’s northern town of Ilobasco. After the attacker had fled unrecognized into the dusk, the phone rang: “Have there been any deaths in the house?” The female caller used an anonymous number and ...; Created on 13 February 2014
40. OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD BANK IN DEFENSE OF EL SALVADOR: (2013 North America Tour); ... the country’s most important river and source of water. Rather than complying with the environmental permitting process of El Salvador, the Canadian company Pacific Rim launched an attack under the Dominican ...; Created on 11 December 2013

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