... aid and relief organization Oxfam America praised the ten members of Congress who urged the National Assembly of El Salvador to take immediate action to protect the environment and local communities from ...
Communities from Across the Hemisphere Speak out Against Pacific Rim
On October 20th, thousands of people marched in Cabañas, El Salvador to voice their opposition to the proposed gold mining project ...
ADES and MUFRAS 32 and the communities of Cabañas celebrate the IV Festival for the Human Right to a Healthy Environment
By, Héctor Berrios
On September 15, 2012 women, men, young people and children ...
Investor Rights Strip Communities of their Basic National Sovereignty
On the day of the expected Pacific Rim decision, the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining organized a press conference with ...
Do Trade Agreement International Investor Protections Imperil Local Communities and the Environment?
On Wednesday, March 28th Luis Gonzalez, a member of the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining ...
Cross-Border Struggles: Anti-Mining Ties between Wisconsin and El Salvador
February, 2012
Versión en Español
The struggle against mining is gaining force in the state of Wisconsin. On Thursday, ...
Save the Mining Moratorium Law
The state of Wisconsin’s mining legislation is some of the strongest in the country and the world. Their “prove it first” law requires mining companies to show ...
... (or around) April 22 (Earth Day) and to finish on April 30th.
We are asking groups like yours to join Salvadoran social movement organizations in organizing solidarity actions to take place in cities ...
... population, most long-term facilities are full. The defense lawyers also believe that, because the case is attracting international attention, no facilities want to take them.
The failure of Bukele’s ...
... the capital, San Salvador, could languish in overcrowded cells for months before formal charges are filed in court. The ongoing state of emergency has suspended a wide range of civil liberties and led ...
... from the communities that representatives of mining companies are visiting their territories to offer social programs and to lease large quantities of land."
"With that in mind," Cabezas concluded, "the ...
... is not alone. The international and national community recognizes the importance of the struggle of organized communities against mining and death projects. Freedom for prisoners politicians."
The arguments ...
... paramilitary groups, including the massacres perpetrated in Santa Marta and surrounding communities, by troops from the Sensuntepeque Military Detachment No2, led by the recently deceased Colonel Sigifredo ...
... authorities in the licensing process. Moreover, the consultation is binding for the municipality according to the municipal autonomy principle established in the political constitution of the republic. ...
... of Jutiapa in Guatemala and is home to the Cerro Blanco mining project. Local communities and environmental organizations have long been concerned about the environmental impacts of this project on shared ...
... 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 ...
... which encompasses 26 municipalities, the councilors assure that the mine was initially in charge of the company "Entremares S.A" and is now managed by the Canadian company "Bluestone Resources INC" that ...
... which encompasses 26 municipalities, the councilors assure that the mine was initially in charge of the company "Entremares S.A" and is now managed by the Canadian company "Bluestone Resources INC" that ...
The Governments and Local Authorities of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, represented hereby are members of the Lempa River Trinational Border Association, and also the "Trinational Network for the ...
... territories.
In addition, several Garífuna communities are experiencing forced displacement. One of them is Triunfo de la Cruz, where 400 families left the community in 2019, and in July 2020, during ...