... incurred along the way, including the unresolved assassinations of four anti-mining activists in 2009. Morales reminded those present that “We cannot talk about the 25th anniversary of Radio Victoria and ...
P. Cabezas
Barely six weeks have passed since the newly elected, right wing dominated legislature took office, but recent frictions between security personnel of the legislature and university students ...
... alliance of the UCA, the Archdiocese of San Salvador and Caritas. On March 9th of that same year, Church and university authorities, accompanied by over 6000 priests, nuns and lay activists concerned with ...
... a roadblock on the road that leads to the San Rafael Las Flores mine, blocking the passage of trucks carrying supplies to the site. In the picture, Rosa Dávila (centre) peels ears of corn in the activists’ ...
P. Cabezas
A few weeks after the first anniversary of the mining ban in El Salvador environmental activists in the country are wondering how long before the ban is overturned.
The ban approved with ...
... at several levels: human health, environmentally and socially. In fact, in the community of Santa Marta, Cabañas, activists who denounced the intrusion of the Pacific Rim / Oceana Gold mining company were ...
... popular organizing, which American and other activists might want to pay attention to and learn from. It is also a tale of collaborations across causes, sectors, geographic areas, and national borders. ...
... with signs of torture reminiscent from the executions carried out by death squads during the civil war in El Salvador. By 2011 three more antimining activists had been murdered: Ramiro Rivera, Dora Alicia ...
Francisco Coto - La Opinion
For 13 years, Vidalina Morales and other environmental activists, led constant fight against a Canadian/Australian mining company which threatened the north of El Salvador. ...