... given to late Regina Paz “Gina” Lopez, former Environment and Natural Resources Secretary and a staunch anti-mining advocate.
During her short yet “fearless” stint as environment secretary, Lopez closed ...
Mario Beltrán - Contrapunto
Environmental NGOs fear that the approaching electoral season might advance the company´s goals at the expense of the environment.
Environmental organizations are worried ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
* 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, ...
... cases as in Guatemala, the government has declared a state of siege due anti-mining protests, in Honduras people have suffered threats, imprisonment and even deaths, in Nicaragua this year there were over ...
Members of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining in Salvador demanded all presidential candidates to publicly state their parties' position on the issue of mining in the country. “Mining is one ...
Recent Statements Cause Alarm for the Anti-Mining Movement
After months of waiting for the Salvadoran central government to release its mining sector Strategic Environmental Assessment, the Vice-Minister ...
Political Candidates Answer to Anti-Mining Activists in San Salvador and Cabañas
March 2012
Monday March 5, the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining in El Salvador (The Mesa in Spanish) together ...
Cross-Border Struggles: Anti-Mining Ties between Wisconsin and El Salvador
February, 2012
Versión en Español
The struggle against mining is gaining force in the state of Wisconsin. On Thursday, ...
... a number of issues surrounding the case.
The Salvadoran anti-mining movement has been able to stand up to multi-national corporations like Commerce Group for a number of reasons, one of which being its ...
... disregard the anti-mining struggle that the country experienced for more than twelve years and for which at least four environmentalists from Cabañas who offered their lives so that Canadian mining companies ...
... mining. Duterte had warned to completely ban mining in the Philippines for its supposed environmental damages.
“Akin to his West Philippine Sea pretense, Mr. Duterte’s anti-mining stance was nothing ...
MONGABAY
Leilani Chavez
President Rodrigo Duterte has lifted a ban on issuing licenses for new mining operations in the Philippines, marking an about-face from a previous anti-mining stance that saw ...
... and strong coalition. We learn that a right-wing environmental minister, Hugo Barrera, handed the water defenders an essential bit of legal strategy, and a conservative archbishop became an anti-mining ...
... forced evacuation and closure of indigenous Lumada schools.
Indigenous elders and vocal anti-mining leaders, such as Domingo Choc Che from Guatemala and Bae Milda Ansabo from Mindanao, suffered brutal ...
... construction began even as communities filed legal complaints, held protests and pleaded with officials to protect the rivers, records show.
The Guapinol anti-mining protest camp. Photograph: Courtesy ...
... whose parents may not have been supporters of the anti-mining resistance, but who now celebrate his legacy in San Isidro, particularly the building of Cultural Community House that is one of the first ...
... to free political prisoners and low-level offence inmates to decongest inhumanely overcrowded prison facilities.
Incarcerated defenders like scientist and campaigner Delai Padilla, anti-mining village ...
... government institutions.
The anti-mining struggle in El Salvador has a rich history. The initiative started from non-governmental organizations and communities that led a twelve-year struggle of peaceful ...