Toronto (Canada), May 12 (EFE Noticias) .- The Ombudsperson for the Defense of the Rights of Environment of El Salvador, Yanira Cortez, began a tour of Canada today to talk about the case of OceanaGold ...
STOP THE SUITS TOUR
International Investment Agreements Threaten People and the Environment from El Salvador to Canada
(Montreal/Ottawa/Toronto) In anticipation of an imminent ruling from ...
... pressure on OceanaGold to withdraw its lawsuit against El Salvador and to build a stronger support base in Australia, a representative from La Mesa will tour Australia in mid-November.
Vidalina Morales, ...
... Members of La Mesa have participated in numerous public education tours in the US and Canada, and have engaged lobbying campaigns with US Senators and Members of Parliament in Canada.
Currently, La Mesa ...
... been facing the expansion of palm plantations, tourist developments, mining, drug trafficking, and the government project known as the Economic Development Zones (Zonas de Desarrollo Económico ZEDE).
Miriam ...
... of “development” that mining promised. Broad and Cavanagh describe a few of these events, and the water defenders’ ingenious ways of subverting them. For example, Pac Rim bankrolled a local soccer tournament. ...
... Salvadoran civil war, there were few influential families linked to the sector. Since domestic elites in tourism and agriculture depended heavily on water, many supported the defenders or at least refrained ...
... government has never given us anything that we didn’t fight for. She gave everything for this community. She’s the reason me and my family are so firm.”
Venessa’s community is located between two tourism ...
... debt instruments by Mexican courts, the alleged taking of certain tourism facilities in Tulum and a dispute relating to the treatment of a satellite services provider Additionally, Mexico risks facing ...
... that it may affect some famous tourist destinations in the mineral- and agriculture-rich upland town of Kasibu.
The governor also cited the MGB Geohazard Map, published in 2012, indicating that Nueva ...
... compensate the Garífuna community for the territory that had been taken over by foreigners and companies for tourist projects. As of present day, the ruling has yet to be met.
“The Honduran state is ...
... There must be an advisory council made up of 14 people from the agro-industry, agricultural cooperatives, industrial sector, tourism, indigenous groups, students, and regional watershed committees. All ...
... part of the Catholic Dioceses of San Cristóbal de las Casas.
MODEVITE has been fighting to stave off construction of a mega-highway to stimulate tourism from San Cristóbal to Palenque, given that it ...
... industries, disputes related to the implementation of large tourism complexes, control routes for narcotrafficking and more recently the introduction of mining have added to the complexity of the land ...
... of extractive industries in the region.
Today we have reached end of the Central American Tour: "Latin American Women Weaving Territories" that started on January 7 and has toured Guatemala, Honduras ...
... groups”.
There were also several visits to the global North by Salvadorans. These included the 2013 North American Tour and the 2015 Stop the Suits Tour of Canada. For Jen Moore, this was important “to ...
... water in San Sebastian
Before we get to meet the people of Arcatao, Pedro Cabezas and Alfredo Carias from CRIPDES take us for a tour across the small Central American country – as a preparation for the ...