By Sandra Cuffe: CIM Magazine
Tahoe Resources’ fiercely contested Escobal silver mine in Guatemala will remain idled for the time being.
Members of the regional mining resistance movement inspect ...
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Ignoring Consistent Pleas to Comply with the Rule of Law
The most recent Supreme Court’s ruling upholds a July 2015 ruling by a Court of Appeals judge, who agreed with the members of the peaceful resistance ...
... civil society continue to be essential. Community-level organisations and groups play an essential role in voicing out resistance. In Cabanas in El Salvador, the grassroots media group Radio Victoria has ...
... microfinances, organic agriculture, leadership training, youth programs, and women’s empowerment. An Historic Success Their most public success began in 2006 with their resistance to a Canadian-Australian ...
... for different struggles against the abuse and impunity by corporations.“We must create a political framework that gives visibility and protection to respective social resistance movements, and that is ...
... on the way to the mine. Other transit points have also been blocked by the “resistance”, as the anti-mining protesters refer to themselves.
“The first thing we want, for God’s sake, is for them ...
... and the right to free and informed consent and the current political and socio-economic context of the Mesoamerican region; we exchanged experiences of resistance to unwanted extractivist projects and ...
... ten companies from the United States, Canada, and Australia, without consultation with the residents. These developments faced immediate popular resistance.
Two of the most affected areas were the departments ...
... by a stray bullet.
According to Miguel Rivera, brother of Ramiro Rivera, the work that environmentalists have done in resistance to Pacific Rim's plans has been minimized and linked to gang problems. ...
PRESS RELEASE
WOMEN OF GUATEMALA, HONDURAS AND EL SALVADOR DENOUNCE THE IMPACTS OF THE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES
The women of the Peaceful Resistance La Puya and the Municipality of Mataquescuintla, ...