... role in securing a historic mining ban in El Salvador have been detained accused of civil war era and gang-related crimes, in what rights groups fear is a ruse to restart mining.
Miguel Ángel Gámez, ...
The Crime in Cabañas
Originally Published in the print newspaper Voces
February 22, 2010
Translated by Jan Morrill
Between August and December 2009 at least five people were assassinated in ...
... para derogar la ley.
A pesar de la popularidad del presidente, principalmente debido a su línea dura hacia las pandillas y el crimen, la economía salvadoreña está en crisis y el gobierno necesita desesperadamente ...
... the law.
Despite the president’s popularity, mostly due to his hard-line approach to gangs and crime, the Salvadoran economy is failing and the government is in desperate need to attract foreign investment. In ...
... motives behind the arrests. Furthermore, the five organizers are being prosecuted by a specialized war-crimes team set up by Bukele, raising worries that the ruling may be dictated from above for political ...
... in El Salvador that claimed the lives of 75,000," explained the organizations. "The victims of crimes from that war, which saw a U.S.-backed dictatorship and right-wing death squads kill tens of thousands, ...
... human rights violations and crimes against humanity", which took place against the Santa Marta people.
"Today, when the State says to act, it is done to re-victimize the community in something that clearly ...
... contributed enormously to the development of the country, especially in environmental protection in areas such as the fight against metallic mining.
2. We are not opposed to investigating crimes committed ...
... has created the conditions for its entire structure to be against human rights defenders. And not only in Honduras, but we are talking about regions all over the world. That is why it becomes a crime for ...
... other things.
The case is in the charge of the Magistrate of the 4th Court (for criminal, drug activity, and crimes against the environment), in session from the 25th March 2021, the judge in charge ...
... rights, in practice, they have served to prop up Canada’s predatory, globe-trotting mining industry.
Crimes and Misconduct Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has recently criticized ...
... El Salvador’s attorney general’s office classified the killing as a “common gang crime,” but the water defenders were convinced that mining interests and their local political allies had masterminded the ...
... murder—nor the subsequent murders of other water defenders—but called it a “common gang crime” and arrested a few “gang members.”
We never learn, however, what those “gang members” said about Rivera’s ...
... hold Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, national officials, and members of the police and military accountable for these crimes will fuel widespread poverty and violence and force more families ...
... Los Pinares company property owned by couple Lenir Pérez and Ana Facussé, son-in-law and daughter, respectively, of the late businessman Miguel Facussé Barjum, were initially charged with the crimes of ...
... kilometres north of Los Filos in Guerrero state, as well as others elsewhere in the country, as industrial mines in Mexico have become targets for extortion by organized crime, often in collusion with ...
... protesters held in pre-trial detention since 2019 for alleged crimes linked to their opposition to an iron oxide mine which threatens to contaminate their water supply. Five more water defenders from Guapinol, ...
Jackie McVicar
AmericaMagazine
Every Wednesday morning, Gabriela Sorto wakes up early to make lunch for her dad, Porfirio. He has not been convicted of a crime but, along with six other local men ...
... racist and corrupt Honduran state has denied the Garífuna people opportunities and as a result of all the crimes that have been committed against us, we have been forced to migrate to seek a better life ...
... also handed themselves in a few months later, but paradoxically, the judge issued a pre-trial detention order.
No evidence of the alleged crimes having taken place was presented, not to mention evidence ...