... the Foundation for the Development of El Salvador FUSADES .
The March 2014 legislative elections changed the political balance of power at the legislature, the left leaning FMLN, which supported the bill ...
... and legislative elections scheduled for 2018, although the result may also be unfavorable.
Four municipalities of the country have held local referenda (consultas populares) on the viability of having ...
... resource.”
In El Salvador, activists call the ruling a moral victory, but they say a new law to ban metal mining is needed before the 2019 elections, which could bring a right-wing government to power. ...
... various policies, in cases ranging from tobacco to mining. This report discusses a selection of the many investor-state attacks on public policies that have occurred globally.
http://www.citizen.org/documents/egregious-investor-state-attacks-case-studies.pdf ...
... added that the El Dorado Foundation provided the current mayor of San Isidro with transportation and flags during the last municipal elections.
Manuel Perez Rocha from the IPS lamented that El Salvador ...
... the city hall, by the registration stands and the tables with the ballot boxes. Election officials explain the voting process to those who cannot read and write. Even the Catholic Church takes a stand: ...
... process of calling a referendum.
Then, the referendum takes place. The elections take place publicly, and the voters can come and participate throughout the day. Such elections are not difficult to organize, ...
... we made during the election campaign for city council and now we are giving an answer to the population that has expressed through organized communities and the Consulta Steering Committee that this ...
... municipality of Arcatao will be voting on the consultation on metal mining. "We need a bit over 1,000 people to vote for the referendum to be legal. But in the last municipal election 1,600 people cast ...
... water as a public good.
- Why does ARENA claim the discussion of the Water Act as electioneering?
At no time has the issue been about elections for the FMLN. This coming March, the General Water Law ...
... the country. Therefore we are concerned that mining and other environmental issues are notably absent again the election campaign, "said Edgardo Mira, from the National Roundtable Against Mining, La Mesa. ...
... He was an outspoken opponent to the El Dorado mine, and organized community opposition to local election irregularities in January 2009. He had received repeated death threats, was subject to a targeted ...
... of the general water law that would undermine the public management while favouring further privatization of the limited water resources.
The upcoming legislative elections in March 2015 can potentially ...
... organizations, and a high level commission of the office of the Ombudsman for the Defence Human Rights in El Salvador, PDDH, actively monitored the vote and endorsed the results of the elections.
Human ...
... San Jose Las Flores the first "Free Territory Mining" in El Salvador. According to the municipal code in El Salvador, at least 40 percent of the registered voters in the last election need to sign the ...
... elections.
But as the campaign picked up esteem in late 2013 and the party released its campaign platform, environmental leaders became disappointed that the document did not reflect the proposals ...
... wing parties, ARENA or GANA to make up the 43 votes required to pass legislation. The closely contested results of the March 09 presidential elections, which the FMLN won by narrow margin of only 6500 ...
... referred to statements made by the Republican former senator Jim DeMint , which warns that if the FMLN wins the presidential election on 9 March, the country will be "a paradise for gangs."
Sanchez ...
... right-wing ARENA party in San Isidro’s municipal elections. ARENA and the conservative PCN have dominated Cabañas since the 1979-92 civil war, when the area was held by the army with support from paramilitary ...
by: P. Cabezas
As the February 2nd presidential elections in El Salvador quickly approach, environmental activists are stepping up pressure on candidates to address issues relating to the country`s precarious ...