... Water Law.
A local community member looks at the San Sebastian river contaminated by acid drainage left behind by US based Commerce Group mining. Photo: International Allies
From a business perspective, ...
... wing parties ARENA, PCN, GANA and PDC in coordination with the National Business Association ANEP, through the approval of the so called "Integral Water Law".
The law proposes the creation of a National ...
... four consecutive governments of the pro-business ARENA party. During 20 years, Salvadoreans endured the dollarization of local currency and the signing of free trade agreements designed to facilitate ...
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 ...
... the aim of the campaign, as well as make progress towards a binding Business and Human Rights Treaty at the UN level" he stated.
Republished from: https://www.diariocolatino.com/estados-latinoamericanos-expuestos-a-demandas-de-empresas-transnacionales-manuel-perez-rocha/ ...
... and we asked whether these businesses have the right to take our rivers, and the vast majority said no,” 69-year-old Mayan Indian Cirilo Acabal Osorio told IPS.
So far they have managed to stop attempts ...
... but there is total freedom for businesses.” (Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez, appointed by Pope Francis last year, is the auxiliary bishop of San Salvador.)
For nearly two decades, El Salvador has considered ...
... particularly because of one of the presidential candidates of the right-wing majority party has links with businessmen and magnates who invest in metal mining, such as Frank Giustra, and Pacific Rim / ...
... pro-business president, Antonio Saca, succumbed to popular pressure and declared that he wouldn’t issue any additional mining exploitation permits. The FMLN candidate, Mauricio Funes, promised that if ...