... several groups in El Salvador’s Cabañas department that were drawn into mining debates when a Canadian company tried to re-open an old gold mine in the area. ADES now finds itself involved in the national ...
... the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA).
Trade itself may violate the dignity of others, or, it may protect the dignity of all human beings, thus becoming an “instrument for good,” as Norwegian ...
... a superficial solution that has been designed to save the administration itself, they should promote a ban on metallic mining through a new Mining Law that explicitly reflects the profound socio-environmental ...
... cost of this case for El Salvador has been estimated at 4.3 million USD. This means that in defending itself against these two cases, El Salvador has already spent a total of over 5 million USD. For El ...
... million.
By Keny López, La Prensa Grafica
Monday, January 16, 2012 00:00
Translated by Jan Morrill
Defending itself from two arbitration suits for not issuing mining exploitation permits has ...
... with this reality and attempting to reconstruct their lives in harmony find themselves again threatened by confrontation and violence from the moment that a mining project inserts itself into community ...
... just to be dragged through this arduous process for over a year in order to defend itself from a baseless attack. This is money that could have been much better spent by the government investing in economic ...
... would damage the ecosystem, productivity and life. It should show that the Pacific Rim is an aggressor who is painting itself as a victim, and that it is the government that should be suing the company ...
... month.
MIRIAM MIRANDA: [translated] What we feel as an organization is that something similar to the Berta Cáceres case is going to repeat itself, where the government is going to parade a group of people ...