P. Cabezas
Yolanda Flores, DHUMA: more than 80% of the Peruvian territory has been concessioned to mining activity. Photo: ACAFREMINSan Salvador - Representatives of indigenous communities, social ...
Andres McKinley
The profound crisis of water resources in El Salvador, in terms of quality, quantity and access, is widely recognized and scientifically documented by national as well as international ...
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 ...
San Salvador June 16, 2018
This morning members of more than seventy social organizations, environmentalists, youth, women groups, churches, unions and universities across the country marched through ...
Catholic News Service
SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR — El Salvador's bishops urged lawmakers to discard any plans for privatizing water in the Central American country, saying the poor could not afford to ...
... protesting the potential privatization of water already paint a grim picture of things to come for social movements in El Salvador.
During the month of May, parliamentarians moved to ratify the mining ...
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 ...
Melbourne, Australia - In May 2013, the Maritime Union of Australia took part in an International Fact Finding Mission to El Salvador.
The study group came from a broad group of countries and backgrounds ...
PRESS RELEASE
San Salvador, May 31st 2018. Last week the Environment and Climate Change Committee of the Legislative Assembly moved to archive all files and petitions related metallic mining in El ...
Melissa Vida : America Magazine
The archbishop of San Salvador, Jose Luis Escobar Alas, points to Blessed Oscar Romero’s portrait on a shelf in his office. “Blessed Romero, is, without a doubt, a role ...
P. Cabezas
A few weeks after the first anniversary of the mining ban in El Salvador environmental activists in the country are wondering how long before the ban is overturned.
The ban approved with ...
Esty DInur - The Progressive
In March 2017, El Salvador, a country with deposits of gold and silver, became the first and only country in the world to ban all metallic mining.
The process took twelve ...
April 4th, 2018
A year since El Salvador's legislature unanimously approved a law prohibiting all metal mining activities in the country, Salvadoran organizations including the National Roundtable ...
P. Cabezas
In March 2017, El Salvador became the first country in the world to ban metallic mining. But the huge victory of the antimining movement and the international recognition it has garnered may ...
PRESS RELEASE: National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining
For many years El Salvador has faced serious environmental degradation provoked in its majority by industrial processes of big corporations. ...
Alfredo Carias: Vanguardia
In the midst of an important victory in El Salvador, an evaluation of the social and environmental conditions in the country contrasts to the achievements obtained with the ...
Francisco Coto - La Opinion
For 13 years, Vidalina Morales and other environmental activists, led constant fight against a Canadian/Australian mining company which threatened the north of El Salvador. ...
... against mining in El Salvador.
He made the statements through his social media accounts.
Last March 29th, deputies of the Legislative Assembly approved the Law Prohibiting Metallic Mining which prevent ...
Gloria Silvia Orellana - Diario CoLatino
"My mother was the daughter of miners and when I told her everything that happened here (in El Salvador) she told me that when her father finished working (in a ...