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21. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Jacobin Owen Schalk Following its failed crypto scheme, authoritarian president Nayib Bukele’s cash-strapped government is making moves to reverse El Salvador’s metal mining ban. Its reintroduction ...; Created on 06 April 2023
22. Salvadoran environmental defenders detained for decades-old crimes: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); The Guardian Nina Lakhani Activists worry the arrests are a move by the cash-strapped government to open the country to now banned metals mining Five prominent environmental defenders who played a crucial ...; Created on 04 April 2023
23. Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Mongabay Maxwell Radin El Salvador banned all mining of metals in 2017, but environmentalists are concerned that the government is preparing to reverse the decision and bring in international investment. The ...; Created on 03 April 2023
24. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Common Dreams Jessica Corbett Critics warn that the Salvadoran government is "desperate for revenues" and trying to "demobilize potential grassroots opposition" to reversing a historic nationwide ban ...; Created on 20 January 2023
25. Public statement from social movement organizations on the detention of members of the Santa Marta community and ADES in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... these people are accused of committing a murder during the civil war (1980-1992) and of illicit associations. This last offense relates the case to the narrative of the current government’s “state of exception” ...; Created on 13 January 2023
26. URGENT COMMUNIQUE: To the people of Asuncion Mita, the national and international community: (Cerro Blanco); ... Mita have already exercised their right to be consulted as per the political constitution of the republic and the municipal code, and the overwhelming results should be considered indicative for government ...; Created on 23 September 2022
27. The Cerro Blanco mine and the right to consultation: (Cerro Blanco); ... waterways in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. But years of frustrations about the lack of information on the project by government authorities and lack of prior consultation by company officials led ...; Created on 22 September 2022
28. PRESS RELEASE: The municipal consultation on Cerro Blanco mine is valid and legitimate: (Cerro Blanco); ... of those who cast ballots voted against metal mining projects and only 10.63% expressed were in favor. The Commission is made up of representatives of the municipal government of Asunción Mita, the Catholic ...; Created on 21 September 2022
29. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... been facing the expansion of palm plantations, tourist developments, mining, drug trafficking, and the government project known as the Economic Development Zones (Zonas de Desarrollo Económico ZEDE). Miriam ...; Created on 25 December 2021
30. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... and the oligarchies of the construction industry. This Government continues to sign agreements between ANDA and the construction oligarchies, providing them with water extraction concessions to supply ...; Created on 23 December 2021
31. Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... were aware of the impacts that mining exploitation would have on water and the environment in general. In recent days we have learned that the Salvadoran government has approached specialists from the ...; Created on 16 December 2021
32. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... strong and clear public rejection of this industry, there are worrying signs that suggest that the government of Nayib Bukele, with its puppet Legislative Assembly, are considering opening the door to ...; Created on 14 December 2021
33. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... to sell their projects. The struggle took international dimensions when two companies, Commerce Group and Pacific Rim (later acquired by OceanaGold), decided to sue the government of El Salvador at the ...; Created on 29 June 2021
34. The law on the right to water reaches Parliament, "people's lives are at stake" warns Cardinal Rosa Chav: (Water Crisis El Salvador); FIDES Salvadoran Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez, in his usual Sunday press conference, said he hopes that the initiative of the water law that the government will present contains the progress made in ...; Created on 15 June 2021
35. Anglo American files lawsuit against Colombia: (ISDS); ... with the World Bank's International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). The director of the government's legal defense agency, Camilo Gomez, told Argus that the state made a strong attempt ...; Created on 08 June 2021
36. Peru miners fall amid uncertainty over tight presidential election: (Mining and Human Rights); ... a Castillo government that would seek higher taxes on mining is "becoming more of a reality," Rohan Reddy, Global X vice president, and research analyst, said by phone. Higher taxes would raise costs ...; Created on 08 June 2021
37. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People: (Mining and Human Rights); ... are devastating to the well-being of rural communities and Indigenous peoples, while allowing private corporations to sue governments over hard-fought social and environmental protections. Case in ...; Created on 07 June 2021
38. Mining is not ‘recovery’: (OceanaGold Philippines); Inquirer Efenita Taqueban and Gideon Lasco In the name of “recovery” from the pandemic, the Philippine government has opened up mining opportunities in the country, with the President recently lifting ...; Created on 02 June 2021
39. Green group supports ban on open-pit mining, protection of 'no mining zones: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... Last month, President Rodrigo Duterte lifted a nine-year moratorium on new mining agreements to allow in investments and boost government revenues. But environmental groups said the move was one of the ...; Created on 27 May 2021
40. First Pre-Consultation Meeting with the Xinka People on the Escobal Mine: (Mining and Human Rights); ... our history… Reaching this moment was a very difficult task… [spanning] four government administrations. Since 2009, we have been protesting and demanding the right to consultation, but unfortunately previous ...; Created on 26 May 2021

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