... legal and political tactics, an elite foreign interest is profiting at the expense of people and planet," stated Laura Martin, Executive Director of the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN). ...
... governments to do everything in their power to protect foreign investments from harm whether from state or non-state actors, and despite harm to people or the environment from such investments.
The ...
... that had declared Santa Ana a project of national priority, despite the Peruvian Constitution banning foreign-owned mining concessions within 50km of the national border.
Subsequently the community ...
P. Cabezas
Local companies tied to foreign capital drive the push to privatize water magament and services in El Salvador.
The fight for the defence of water in El Salvador and the recent conflicts ...
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 ...
... to about 10 different foreign companies based mainly in Canada, the United States and Australia. The mining program was a part of wider economic development strategy, concocted in the board rooms of the ...
... settlement provisions of international trade agreements and foreign investment laws. This case dragged on for seven years and should never have taken place.
Given this ruling, we support our allies in ...
... Mining" is not a foreign concept to Rodolfo Calles, of CRIPDES, who argues that the struggle that ended with a prohibition would not be enough to protect the country's natural assets.
"Because our mining ...
* Yevgeniya Yatsenko and Sebastian Rosemont : Foreign Policy in Focus
U.S. environmentalists take note: El Salvador's activists proved that a national consensus on environmentalism can be forged one town ...
... of Mexico and Central America, which has enriched foreign corporations and domestic elites for hundreds of years. The gold veins run through the north of El Salvador, right through the Lempa River watershed, ...