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1. Santa Marta Community Leaders Are Persecuted in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); TeleSur Five social leaders were arrested due to a judicial order that links them to an alleged case that occurred during the civil war. On Thursday, Santa Marta's Association for Social Economic Development ...; Created on 19 January 2023
2. Australian-Canadian mining company OceanaGold misleads public on Filipino mine: (OceanaGold Philippines); Greenleft Ron Guy Spokesperson for the Australian National Campaign on Mining in the Philippines (ANCoMP) Andrew Morrison believes that Australian-Canadian mining company OceanaGold is misleading the ...; Created on 22 April 2021
3. Mine reappears on list of suspects: Lead source inquiry welcomed: (OceanaGold); Otago Daily Hamish Maclean OceanaGold has welcomed investigations under way to rule out all possible sources of lead in an Otago community’s water supply even after the mining company resurfaced on ...; Created on 13 March 2021
4. 5 Garífuna Leaders Are Still Missing in Honduras: (Regional News); Massay Crisanto - The Nation It’s been nearly 50 days since five Garífuna leaders were abducted in their homes in Triunfo de la Cruz, on Honduras’s Caribbean coast. On July 18 at 5:30 AM, men wearing ...; Created on 03 September 2020
5. Ostúa River contaminated with lead and arsenic from Cerro Blanco mine: (Cerro Blanco); ... Lempa River, the most important fresh water supply for Salvadorans. "We have found that lead exceeds international water quality standards. This is already an existing danger for the aquatic life of ...; Created on 21 April 2020
6. El Salvador Church Leaders Fight for Ban on Mining Exploitation: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... a boost Monday as leaders of the Catholic church in the Central American country presented a bill in Congress aimed at blocking mining and protecting citizens from “serious contamination.” “The objective ...; Created on 10 February 2017
7. “El Dorado Foundation” develops misleading social programs: Jennifer Moore: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); By Gloria Orellana - CoLatino "The activities of the El Dorado Foundation are misleading, are dangerous and show a lack of deep respect for the people of Cabañas and El Salvador," said Jennifer Moore, ...; Created on 07 March 2016
8. Bill Clinton Leads Sinister Business Alliance in El Salvador: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... he owns two of El Salvador’s principal telecom operators (Claro and Digicel), which are leading the charge against a recently-approved communications tax that would fund violence prevention and security ...; Created on 19 November 2015
9. Anti-mining leaders asks presidential candidates to make explicit their position on mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Members of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining in Salvador demanded all presidential candidates to publicly state their parties' position on the issue of mining in the country. “Mining is one ...; Created on 21 November 2013
10. Government of El Salvador asked once again to take leadership in banning metallic mining: (Cerro Blanco); San Salvador, February 4th, 2012 The NationalRoundtable Against Metallic Mining in El Salvador(La Mesa) reiterated in a press conference this morning its petition for the Salvadoran Government to introduce ...; Created on 04 February 2013
11. Salvadoran Indigenous leader Shandur Kuátzin Makwilkali: (Mining and Human Rights); Salvadoran Indigenous leader Shandur Kuátzin Makwilkali BY ROBIN LLEWELLYN • NOV 6, 2012 "This is not Cabañas," said Shandur Kuátzin Makwilkali, gesturing around the room and out the window at the wooded ...; Created on 19 November 2012
12. Frustration around the Latest Ruling in the Cases of Violence towards Environmental Leaders: (Mining and Human Rights); Frustration around the Latest Ruling in the Cases of Violence towards Environmental Leaders Wednesday April 11, six members of the 18th Street gang were sentenced to between 30 and 145 years in jail ...; Created on 18 April 2012
13. Threats and Attacks to Religious Leader in Cabañas: (Mining and Human Rights); Threats and Attacks to Religious Leader in Cabañas January 2012 A new series of threats towards environmentalists have disrupted the uneasy calm that had settled over Cabañas after almost eight months ...; Created on 12 March 2012
14. International community calls for release of El Salvador antimining activists: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the five men helped lead a campaign to ban metals mining in 2017 and protect El Salvador’s primary source of clean water, the Lempa River Basin. The countrywide ban was the first of its kind anywhere in ...; Created on 20 December 2023
15. International Week of Action Free the Santa Marta 5: (Free the Santa Marta 5); ... law was passed in the a law to create a Directorate of Energy Mines and Hydrocarbons. Community leaders in Cabañas have also denounced the presence of employees of mining companies offering long-term leases ...; Created on 08 April 2023
16. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... integrity of their country in a region where states generally side with foreign investors over local demands, leading to potentially tragic conflict. Such conflict is ongoing at the Cerro Blanco mine ...; Created on 06 April 2023
17. Salvadoran environmental defenders detained for decades-old crimes: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... which has been widely used by the Bukele regime to lock up more than 60,000 alleged gang members since March. Rights groups fear that the community leaders, who are being held at a police station in ...; Created on 04 April 2023
18. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... massacre in 1980, where 30 people were assassinated and 189 were disappeared), the government is now re-victimizing the community by targeting their leaders, who have been outspoken against the policies ...; Created on 20 January 2023
19. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... based in Washington D.C. in the United States, which for almost six decades has been conducting research and supporting progressive social movements and leaders. In an interview with Mongabay Latam, ...; Created on 25 December 2021
20. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... such as cyanide (a chemical that can kill a human being in quantities less than a grain of rice), mercury, sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, lead, arsenic, cadmium, magnesium and other substances. According ...; Created on 14 December 2021

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