P. Cabezas
Members of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining demanded the immediate removal of Australian/Canadian OceanaGold mining company of El Salvador after the Attorney General's Office ...
P. Cabezas
More than one hundred member organizations of the Alliance Against the Privatization of Water in El Salvador mobilized throughout the country to deliver letters to regional Legislative offices ...
By Andrés McKinley : NCR
SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR, There are times in life when things come together, forces galvanize, pieces fall into place and processes take on a magical quality that keeps you wondering ...
* 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 El Salvador.
The most recent win was in March 2017, when the national legislature voted overwhelmingly to make El Salvador the first nation on earth to ban all metals mining, an activity that threatened ...
Thomas Mc Donagh and Aldo Orellana López : The Democracy Center
On 29th March 2017 legislators in El Salvador approved a blanket ban on all metal mining activities in the country – the first country ...
... tell that the company was at the centre of international controversy over two of its mine projects in 2016 and early 2017. Ignoring significant problems in El Salvador and the Philippines, however, will ...
Sandra Cuffe: Mongabay
Legislators in El Salvador made history Wednesday, passing a bill to ban all metallic mining activities in the country.
The results of the much-anticipated vote were unanimous: ...
Sebastian Rosemont: Huffinton Post
The vote marked the culmination of a decade of pressure from activists, environmentalists and the Catholic church.
In an historic vote, El Salvador became the first ...
... metallic mining.
The people of El Salvador and their international allies against irresponsible mining are celebrating a historic victory. After a long battle against global mining companies that were ...
El Pais/EFE
San Salvador, Feb 28 (EFE) .- El Salvador's Human Rights Ombudswoman, Raquel Caballero, congratulated today the residents of the town of Cinquera (northwest Cabañas), who last sunday rejected ...
... series, bringing the anti-mining struggle of El Salvador to the Canadian north with an informative presentation.
In a local library, a crowd gathered to learn about the environmental crisis in El Salvador ...
By Aruna Dutt : IPS News
Cabañas, El Salvador, Mar 1 2017 (IPS) - The citizens of Cinquera municipality in Cabañas delivered a resounding vote against mining, on Sunday February 26th, when 98 percent ...