... companies have decided to establish bylaws to prohibit mining in their localities.
The municipalities of San José las Flores, San Isidro Labrador and Nueva Trinidad in Chalatenango have had referenda ...
... already terrible. But, more terrible is that this is not a unique case: not long ago the Canadian gold mining company Gabriel Resources sued Romania for 6 billion dollars, after the government decided ...
By Marina Bonetti
Communities and organizations gathered in front of the World Bank in San Salvador to demand a fair verdict on the lawsuit of Pacific Rim vs El Salvador.
After days of uninterrupted ...
El Diario de Hoy - Translation: Marina Bonetti
A diplomatic document shows that Pacific Rim lied to the tribunal about the time in which it decided to initiate the lawsuit against El Salvador before ...
By: Alejandra Martins - BBC Mundo / Translation: Marina Bonetti and Sigrun Pallesen
In an office in Washington, three arbitrators are about to decide on the lawsuit filed by the multinational mining ...
... Our small group attracts some women that live nearby, who decide to join us. They share their stories abut the difficult situation in the community, and in the same way we tell them about the Salvadoran ...
... in El Salvador have decided to move ahead of the national debate and have already set out their position on mining.
At the beginning of March, the municipality of Nueva Trinidad, in Chalatenango, became ...
... scarcity crisis.
El Salvador refused to issue a permit for a gold mine to Vancouver-based Pacific Rim, the corporation decided to sue the government for over $300 million (U.S.). Pacific Rim has since ...
... of the worst excess of corporate greed. The claim is being decided in a tribunal under the tainted “Investor-State Dispute Settlement” (ISDS) procedure which corporations and some governments want to see ...