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41. How El Salvador Won on Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... In Cabañas, the Canadian company Pacific Rim in 2002 acquired the El Dorado gold mine near the rural town of San Isidro, and started exploring. El Dorado was located in the Lempa River basin, whose ...; Created on 07 May 2018
42. Looming threats to the mining prohibition in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Violence escalated in June 2009 when community leader and vocal anti-mining activist Marcelo Rivera went missing in the town of San Isidro. His body was found two weeks later, rotting inside a water well, ...; Created on 08 February 2018
43. Cross border mining will be the next phase of the anti-mining struggle in El Salvador: (Cerro Blanco); ... insisting with different offers of employment, trips, and the reconstruction of the town, but we refused, " she said. "For us this is sacred territory, in the land surrounding San José Las Flores, so ...; Created on 14 November 2017
44. How Local, Grassroots Organizing Drove El Salvador’s Mining Ban: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); * 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 ...; Created on 26 June 2017
45. El Salvador Votes for Water over Gold: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... processing of metals, whether in open pits or underground. It also prohibits the use of toxic chemicals like cyanide and mercury. In the lead-up to the vote, communities in the town of Cinquera had rejected ...; Created on 16 April 2017
46. Political parties give assurances that they will support the prohibition of Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... after the referendum, the National Round Table Against Metallic Mining. Cinquera was the fifth Salvadoran municipality to rejects metal mining; previously the towns of San Jose Las Flores, San Isidro ...; Created on 09 March 2017
47. Salvadorean Human Rights Attorney Congratulates Municipality that Rejected Mining Through Referendum: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); 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 ...; Created on 08 March 2017
48. Communities Call on Local Representatives to Approve Anti-Mining Regulation: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); * Teresa Alvarado: Transparencia Activa The inhabitants of Cinquera also asked the city council to call a popular vote so that the citizens of the town can decide through a vote if they are in favor of, ...; Created on 10 February 2017
49. Community of San Jose Las Flores commemorates 11th anniversary of the defeat of a mining company.: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); By P. Cabezas As the morning sun rises on the town of San Jose las Flores, members of the community prepare for the annual pilgrimage to the Urbina Hills, the site that once was the main exploration ...; Created on 27 September 2016
50. Yes to life, no to mining! – Report Back Delegation to El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of the necessity of an anti-mining law. The unanimity with which the people in the little farming towns in the mountains of the Department of Chalatenango resist the destructive gold mining has impressed ...; Created on 03 February 2016

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