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1. Environmentalists commemorate the 11th anniversary of the murder of Marcelo Rivera: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); P. Cabezas On July 11th, environmental justice activists in El Salvador commemorated the 11th anniversary of the 2009 assassination of Marcelo Rivera, a community cultural activist and water defender ...; Created on 15 July 2020
2. Marcelo's Legacy: The environmentalist who fought against metal mining in El Salvado: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of metal mining, for our country. This journalistic writing is to remember Dora Sorto, Juan Durán, Ramiro Rivera, and Gustavo Marcelo Rivera, who were the first front line defenders in the department of ...; Created on 18 September 2019
3. ADES demands further investigation into the murder of Marcelo Rivera: (Mining and Human Rights); Six years after the assassination of Marcelo Rivera, family members and environmental leaders of Cabañas continue to demand justice. “We are outraged that after six years, families of people who worked ...; Created on 12 July 2015
4. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... favor of their opponents. In the course of their struggle, the water defenders face trials of biblical proportions, including the brutal and unsolved murder of their leader Marcelo Rivera, a teacher ...; Created on 23 April 2021
5. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... him, stopping the landfill but not the 70,000 hogs. Brothers Marcelo and Miguel Rivera, Broad and Cavanagh write, were key members of that opposition. They founded the first library and culture center ...; Created on 11 April 2021
6. What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... that came to be known as La Mesa. This essay is adapted from Robin Broad and John Cavanagh’s The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country From Corporate Greed. During those years, Marcelo ...; Created on 05 April 2021
7. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... spectrum? Luis Parada: Marcelo Rivera was the first activist that sounded the alarm about the danger of metallic mining in the province of Cabañas, where he was from. And he's the one that started educating ...; Created on 22 March 2021
8. HONDURAS: Human rights defenders threatened by armed groups during quarantine: (Regional News); ... acts of provocation acts by a paramilitary group commanded by Santos Marcelo Torres that operates in the area of the community of Panama and the Paso Aguán farm. These incidents include death threats, ...; Created on 31 July 2020
9. The Salvadorean State has a pending debt with land defenders criminalized by mining companies: (Mining and Human Rights); ACAFREMIN Every year the inhabitants of the communities of Santa Rosa, Trinidad and La Maraña in the Department of Cabañas, fervently commemorate the life of land defenders Ramiro Rivera, Marcelo Rivera ...; Created on 26 December 2019
10. Social Organizations demand compliance with the Prohibition of Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... activist Marcelo Rivera, said that Pacific Rim left a legacy of violence, threats and a breakdown of social cohesion after the murder of environmental defenders and community leaders such as Marcelo, disappeared ...; Created on 26 December 2019
11. From Mining to Water: 25 years of Community Solidarity and Organizing: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... ADES, and our successes, without remembering Dora Sorto, Ramiro Rivera, Marcelo Rivera, who gave their lives for the defense of our environment and the right to life of current and future generations.” ...; Created on 24 August 2018
12. Solidarity Statement to the People of El Salvador on the day of OceanGold's AG: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... rally we name the courageous people whose blood was spilt in defence of their community. Marcelo Rivera Ramiro Rivera Felicita Escheverria Dora Alicia Recinos Soto and her unborn child Jose Duran ...; Created on 04 June 2018
13. Looming threats to the mining prohibition in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Violence escalated in June 2009 when community leader and vocal anti-mining activist Marcelo Rivera went missing in the town of San Isidro. His body was found two weeks later, rotting inside a water well, ...; Created on 08 February 2018
14. National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining demands justice in the case of murdered environmentalists: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... it to be installed again", said Domingo Miranda, at the commemoration ceremony of the eighth anniversary of the murder of environmentalists in San Isidro, Cabañas. Eight years after the murders of Marcelo ...; Created on 01 February 2018
15. The fight for the environment in El Salvador gets recognition in Los Angeles: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... and - according to her - even death. Three community leaders who pressed against these projects were murdered in 2009: Marcelo Rivera, Ramiro Rivera and Dora Alicia Sorto. Law against mining However, ...; Created on 14 November 2017
16. In Mining-Affected Communities, Water Is Becoming More Precious Than Gold: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... to sue, community leader and outspoken mine opponent Marcelo Rivera was tortured and killed. Six months later, Ramiro Rivera Gómez of the Cabañas Environmental Committee and activist Dora Alicia Recinos ...; Created on 26 June 2017
17. El Salvador Passes Historic Law To Ban Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... activists and community leaders were murdered. After the vote, representatives, activist leaders, and Church officials took a moment to honor the memories of Marcelo Rivera, Ramiro Rivera Gómez, Dora Alicia ...; Created on 16 April 2017
18. In El Salvador, OceanaGold Must ‘Pay Up and Pack Up’: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the Washington tribunal. In June 2009, community leader and outspoken opponent to the El Dorado mine, Marcelo Rivera, was tortured and killed. Six months later, Ramiro Rivera Gómez from the Cabañas Environmental ...; Created on 03 March 2017
19. Alejandro Guevara: “It was the communities who built the resistance against metallic mining”: (Mining and Human Rights); ... anniversary mass and community event that honored the memory of environmentalists Marcelo Rivera, Dora Sorto, her unborn son (Enmanuel), and Ramiro Rivera. The mass held at the community of La Trinidad, ...; Created on 03 January 2017
20. Solidarity rally in Toronto as decision released in OceanaGold v. El Salvador case: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... were read aloud and flowers were laid to honour their lives: June 18, 2009 - Gustavo Marcelo Rivera. A community leader and anti-mining activist, Rivera was disappeared. Less than two weeks later his ...; Created on 10 November 2016

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