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1. 10 Prosecuted for murders of environmentalists: (Background and reports ); 10 Prosecuted for murders of environmentalists According to prosecutor’s hypothesis, none of the murders are linked to environmental activism against mining. La Prensa Grafica By Suchit Chavez Wednesday, ...; Created on 19 April 2012
2. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... for the dozens of cases of human rights violations and crimes against humanity that members of the Salvadoran military committed against the Santa Marta community (including the murders of the Lempa River ...; Created on 20 January 2023
3. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... murder—nor the subsequent murders of other water defenders—but called it a “common gang crime” and arrested a few “gang members.” We never learn, however, what those “gang members” said about Rivera’s ...; Created on 11 April 2021
4. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... led to the finding the people who actually killed them. But, didn't go beyond to find who may be behind the murders. Marco Werman: And Marcelo Rivera, how did his story capture the imagination of Salvadorans ...; Created on 22 March 2021
5. NEW BOOK: The water defenders - how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... with corporate greed; a transnational lawsuit at a secretive World Bank tribunal in Washington, DC; violent threats; murders; and, surprisingly, victory. The husband-and-wife duo immerses the reader in ...; Created on 14 January 2021
6. Canadian corporate greed on display in Mexico mining dispute: (Regional News); ... community in 2015, and the murders of an estimated 55 community members as of 2019. Such extreme violence has also been reported in connection with Toronto-based Torex Gold’s mining operation about 45 ...; Created on 28 November 2020
7. Pandemic fuels mining extraction in Latin America: (Regional News); ... We know that the police and the Army are the only way for the Government to resolve this type of conflict." Since the murder of Berta Cáceres on March 3, 2016, the number of murders of defenders of the ...; Created on 09 August 2020
8. Social Organizations demand compliance with the Prohibition of Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... to the Attorney General's Office (FGR), to open the case and resume the investigation, to clarify who were intellectual authors of the crimes. When these murders took place, we certainly did not know where ...; Created on 26 December 2019
9. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... “You get desensitized at some point because of how wholesale the murders are,” Dulce told VICE News. “We are basically living with half of our body already six feet under.” A number of activists and ...; Created on 04 October 2019
10. Marcelo's Legacy: The environmentalist who fought against metal mining in El Salvado: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... many people in the department of Cabañas and other sectors of the country who recognize their struggle, and subsequent murders due to the presence of mining corporations, managed to raise national awareness ...; Created on 18 September 2019
11. Threats to the Law Against Metallic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... killed. Although the separate murders of 4 activists were attributed to criminal gangs, community members state that the clear link is their involvement in the opposition to the mining company. Similarly, ...; Created on 07 May 2018
12. How El Salvador Won on Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... The murders prompted an international outcry and a resolution from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, but the intimidation continued. Ramos spent a few months in Ecuador due to the threats ...; Created on 07 May 2018
13. Salvadorans Reinforce Commitment to Sustain Historic Mining Ban on its First Anniversary: (Media Releases); ... testament to our people’s commitment to protect the environment for future generations. It is dedicated to those who continued the struggle despite a campaign of brutal repression, including four murders ...; Created on 06 May 2018
14. Looming threats to the mining prohibition in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... intellectual authors of the murders of environmental defenders who were assassinated in 2009, second we need to ensure that Minerales Torogoz, and the El Dorado Foundation leave Cabañas, and third we need ...; Created on 08 February 2018
15. 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
16. Open letter to Oceana Gold: (Open Letter OceanaGold); ... and With respect to the above, OceanaGold should cooperate fully in a full, impartial investigation into the murders and threats that have taken place in connection with this conflict over the years. ...; Created on 30 November 2017
17. How Local, Grassroots Organizing Drove El Salvador’s Mining Ban: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... to pay. The suit — and lack of a thorough government investigation into the murders — strengthened the resolve of the anti-mining movement and gave them the moral high ground. Hundreds of local and national-level ...; Created on 26 June 2017
18. In El Salvador, OceanaGold Must ‘Pay Up and Pack Up’: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); MiningWatch After seven years, four murders and US$24 million in total legal costs, in October 2016, a little-known World Bank tribunal trashed OceanaGold’s claim that El Salvador either owed it a mining ...; Created on 03 March 2017
19. Social Movements Demand Blunt Action to Prohibit Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... has been happening for more than 10 years, and that debate has even had unfortunate consequences such as the murders of environmentalists. This can be closed with 43 votes of the Legislative Assembly, ...; Created on 15 February 2017
20. Alejandro Guevara: “It was the communities who built the resistance against metallic mining”: (Mining and Human Rights); ... our country. With the murders of the environmentalists our family has paid a price that has been very painful, these murders continue to have ramifications in community members that still live with the ...; Created on 03 January 2017

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