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1. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... to sell their projects. The struggle took international dimensions when two companies, Commerce Group and Pacific Rim (later acquired by OceanaGold), decided to sue the government of El Salvador at the ...; Created on 29 June 2021
2. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... about the mine’s potential ecological damage. In their attempts to defend their territories, local leaders have been surveilled, threatened, injured and imprisoned, and some, like Morazán, have been killed. ...; Created on 06 May 2021
3. Honduran justice denies defenders of the Guapinol river to wait for their trial in freedom: (Regional News); CRITERIO Tegucigalpa. - Eight environmental defenders of the Atlantic zone of Honduras have been in prison for 15 months due to their opposition to a mining project which is plagued with irregularities. ...; Created on 28 December 2020
4. Thousands of Salvadorans endure COVID-19 without running water to wash their hands: (Regional News); ... affected communities, along with water trucks. The government also planned on digging new wells in order to provide water and stop dependence on the Las Pavas Water plant. According to their official website, ...; Created on 11 September 2020
5. Communities in rural El Salvador request a referendum to keep mining projects out of their territories.: (Territories Free of Mining); ... petition, then a public consultation must be called by the local community council. If the anti-mining forces are able to get over 50 percent of the registered voters to support their motion then the community ...; Created on 08 September 2014
6. Anti-mining leaders asks presidential candidates to make explicit their position on mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); 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 ...; Created on 21 November 2013
7. Investor Rights Strip Communities of their Basic National Sovereignty: (FTAs & ISDS); Investor Rights Strip Communities of their Basic National Sovereignty On the day of the expected Pacific Rim decision, the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining organized a press conference with ...; Created on 08 June 2012
8. International Week of Action Free the Santa Marta 5: (Free the Santa Marta 5); ... 30 years ago. Now, like thousands of other prisoners in El Salvador, they are in grave danger of dying or being killed while awaiting an opportunity to prove their innocence. Their families and legal team ...; Created on 08 April 2023
9. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... statement calling on the Salvadoran government to drop the charges against the five water defenders or, at the very least, release them from prison to await their trial. Currently, they are being held ...; Created on 06 April 2023
10. Salvadoran environmental defenders detained for decades-old crimes: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... more than 33 years ago during the brutal civil war that claimed 75,000 lives. Prisoners sat on the cement floor of a courtyard at a prison. Their upper bodies are bare, their heads shaved, and they ...; Created on 04 April 2023
11. Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... decades speaking out contamination of water sources by mining projects, were arrested in January after mining officials visited their town of Santa Marta. MEXICO CITY — It was considered a major environmental ...; Created on 03 April 2023
12. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... massacre in 1980, where 30 people were assassinated and 189 were disappeared), the government is now re-victimizing the community by targeting their leaders, who have been outspoken against the policies ...; Created on 20 January 2023
13. Public statement from social movement organizations on the detention of members of the Santa Marta community and ADES in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... legal proceedings against their members and representatives. Santa Marta is an exemplary community that has achieved enormous social development, like no other rural population in the country. ADES has ...; Created on 13 January 2023
14. URGENT COMMUNIQUE: To the people of Asuncion Mita, the national and international community: (Cerro Blanco); ... Mita have already exercised their right to be consulted as per the political constitution of the republic and the municipal code, and the overwhelming results should be considered indicative for government ...; Created on 23 September 2022
15. The Cerro Blanco mine and the right to consultation: (Cerro Blanco); ... with the presence of mining projects that would affect the natural resources in their territory, and the answer of the people was a resounding no. Asuncion Mita is the capital of the eastern department ...; Created on 22 September 2022
16. PRESS RELEASE: The municipal consultation on Cerro Blanco mine is valid and legitimate: (Cerro Blanco); ... Church, civil society organizations, and representatives of the mining company Elevar Resources, who resigned from their positions shortly after the establishment of the commission. However, the observation ...; Created on 21 September 2022
17. Central American mayors reject mining exploitation that affects strategic river: (Cerro Blanco); El Financiero A dozen mayors from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras expressed this Tuesday their opposition to the exploitation of the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala for contaminating the strategic ...; Created on 12 June 2022
18. Central American mayors reject mining exploitation that affects strategic river: (Cerro Blanco); El Financiero A dozen mayors from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras expressed this Tuesday their opposition to the exploitation of the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala for contaminating the strategic ...; Created on 12 June 2022
19. Public statement of the Local Governments of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, members of the Lempa River Trinational Border Association, regarding the “Cerro Blanco” mining project, developed by the ...: (Cerro Blanco); ... which only a joint and coordinated action of the three countries will provide a satisfactory solution to the problems of the populations and the sustainable management of their natural resources”. 7. ...; Created on 12 June 2022
20. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... Miranda grew up in a Garifuna family that migrated from their community in Santa Fe, Colón, to live and work in a banana field. In those plantations, she saw how people were treated like slaves: the end ...; Created on 25 December 2021

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