... trade under the protection of the state.” Comercio libre shut down textile production centers in Peru and New Spain, freeing their Catalonian counterparts from the burden of competition, in the same way ...
... petitions, a delegation of different representatives from social organizations also made a stop at the Guatemalan Embassy in San Salvador to ask the Guatemalan government to stop mining projects that will ...
... in congress.
The author of this post, Jim Hodgson, is Latin America/Caribbean program coordinator at The United Church of Canada. The United Church has called on Canadians to sign a petition to Parliament ...
San Salvador, February 4th, 2012
The NationalRoundtable Against Metallic Mining in El Salvador(La Mesa) reiterated in a press conference this morning its petition for the Salvadoran Government to introduce ...
... a petition (below) that is being promoted by faith-based organizations from across the U.S. that asks the Commerce Group to drop its multi-million dollar suit and take the steps necessary for environmental ...
... of individuals in the area who are mining on an artisanal scale, but it was ruled out that the quantities of cyanide and iron found in the runoff are related to these current practices.
At the petition ...
... and press were allowed into the Ministry to present the paperwork.
According to the Ministry official who received the petitions, the information will be returned within 10 days. However, the Mesa ...
... of 2011, civil society organizations representing millions of people in El Salvador, the United States, Canada and the world, submitted a petition to ICSID and the World Bank (where the trade tribunal ...
OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD BANK IN DEFENSE OF EL SALVADOR
Dr. Jim Yong Kim, PresidentWorld Bank Group1818, H Street NWWashington, DC, 20433, USA
The signers of this petition are 303 ...
... of extractivism – increasing the conflict related to competition for the use of water between mining companies and communities that need it for human and agricultural consumption in regions such as Moquegua. ...