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21. Santa Marta Community Leaders Are Persecuted in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Marta expressed that it seemed "outrageous and suspicious" that the Salvadoran State is interested in promoting "a case" 31 years after the end of the Salvadoran civil war, and after over 40 years of "countless ...; Created on 19 January 2023
22. Public statement from social movement organizations on the detention of members of the Santa Marta community and ADES in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... of the Salvadoran population, especially of the most vulnerable sectors. Alianza Centroamericana contra la Minería (ACAFREMIN) Aliados Internacionales contra la Minería en El Salvador Alianza contra ...; Created on 13 January 2023
23. The Cerro Blanco mine and the right to consultation: (Cerro Blanco); ... on Mining, a regional organization that supports mining-affected communities in the region and has been key in sharing advice to local organizations for the consultation process. Salvadoran and Guatemalan Catholic ...; Created on 22 September 2022
24. PRESS RELEASE: The municipal consultation on Cerro Blanco mine is valid and legitimate: (Cerro Blanco); ... mining project that poses environmentmental threats for both Guatemalan and Salvadoran communities. The International Observation Mission was made up of the National Roundtable Against Metal Mining ...; Created on 21 September 2022
25. Central American mayors reject mining exploitation that affects strategic river: (Cerro Blanco); ... Esquipulas, Comotán, Santa Catarina Mita and San Juan Ermita, the mayors and deputy mayors of Sinuapa, Ocotepeque, La Labor in Honduras, and the Salvadoran towns of Candelaria de la Frontera, Citalá, Dulce ...; Created on 12 June 2022
26. Central American mayors reject mining exploitation that affects strategic river: (Cerro Blanco); ... Esquipulas, Comotán, Santa Catarina Mita and San Juan Ermita, the mayors and deputy mayors of Sinuapa, Ocotepeque, La Labor in Honduras, and the Salvadoran towns of Candelaria de la Frontera, Citalá, Dulce ...; Created on 12 June 2022
27. Public statement of the Local Governments of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, members of the Lempa River Trinational Border Association, regarding the “Cerro Blanco” mining project, developed by the ...: (Cerro Blanco); ... International Treaties signed by Guatemala related to international waters. iii. Likewise, we exhort the government of El Salvador not to backtrack on the prohibition of metal mining in Salvadoran territory. ...; Created on 12 June 2022
28. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... El Salvador, there are more than 2,500 rural and community water systems that supply almost 25% of the Salvadoran population. The absence of the State that has historically neglected its responsibility ...; Created on 23 December 2021
29. Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... The struggle led by communities affected by the threat of mining lasted more than twelve years, and this struggle was joined by different sectors of Salvadoran society and the international community that ...; Created on 16 December 2021
30. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); *ANDRES MCKINLEY - El Faro On March 29, 2017, the Salvadoran population celebrated with joy, hope and pride the approval of a law prohibiting metallic mining in all of its forms at the national level. ...; Created on 14 December 2021
31. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Despite of the success of the campaign and the fact that the mining prohibition has been in force for the last four years, La Mesa affirms that there has been no commitment on the part of the Salvadoran ...; Created on 29 June 2021
32. The law on the right to water reaches Parliament, "people's lives are at stake" warns Cardinal Rosa Chav: (Water Crisis El Salvador); FIDES Salvadoran Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez, in his usual Sunday press conference, said he hopes that the initiative of the water law that the government will present contains the progress made in ...; Created on 15 June 2021
33. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of Salvadorans to oppose mining, including more than 3 out of 5 consulted in a 2007 University of Central America poll. The most shocking ordeal faced by the water defenders was Rivera’s gruesome murder. ...; Created on 23 April 2021
34. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... that ban in The Water Defenders (Beacon Press, 2021). Broad and Cavanagh spent over a decade collaborating with the international solidarity movement supporting the Salvadorans’ fight against a proposed ...; Created on 11 April 2021
35. WATER IS LIFE. CAN WE PROTECT IT?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... lobbyists. Beyond offering these few carrots, they also carried a large stick. When the Salvadoran government paused new mining licenses to study the issue, the mining companies filed lawsuits against ...; Created on 28 March 2021
36. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the unsolved murder of one of the environmental activists killed in the lead up to this mining ban. Marcello Rivera was his name. Who was he and how did his story resonate with Salvadorans across the political ...; Created on 22 March 2021
37. NEW BOOK: The water defenders - how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the lives of the Salvadoran villagers, the journeys of the local activists who sought the truth about the effects of gold mining on the environment, and the behind-the-scenes maneuverings of the corporate ...; Created on 14 January 2021
38. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the Salvadoran Congress approved, in March 2017, a law that prohibited metal mining, the only regulation of its kind in the world. With this law, no company can extract gold, silver, copper, or other metallic ...; Created on 05 January 2021
39. EL SALVADOR - Water recognized as a public good and human right, the satisfaction of the Church: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... enter into force from 2021, after the parliamentary elections. The Archbishop of San Salvador, Mgr. José Luis Escobar Alas, president of the Salvadoran Episcopal Conference, in a video posted on the ...; Created on 30 November 2020
40. Demand to resume discussion of the Water Law in El Salvador: (Regional News); ... the current conditions to face the Covid-19 health crisis in the Central American country. The signatories demand from the Salvadoran State "to guarantee access to this vital resource in an equitable, ...; Created on 03 July 2020

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