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21. Yes to life, no to mining! – Report Back Delegation to El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of Pacific Rim, to be behind the murders. Chávez is known in El Salvador as “the Ripper”. In September 2014 he personally killed a municipal employee, and then he dismembered his body. For the social movements, ...; Created on 03 February 2016
22. Justice delayed: Environmentalists assassinated in Cabañas remembered: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Committee, was also murdered. Although the string of murders ceased in 2011, mainly due to local and international pressure and the intervention of the Inter American Commission on Human Rights which ...; Created on 07 January 2016
23. Resistance against the bloodsucker: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... has always denied any involvement in the attacks and murders, blaming criminal gangs; however, it has never shown any sympathy with the victims. The murder of his brother was never prosecuted, neither ...; Created on 03 January 2016
24. ADES demands further investigation into the murder of Marcelo Rivera: (Mining and Human Rights); ... these murders have not been clarified; the Attorney General has a debt with the families of the victims, and if can not fulfil its duties, he should resign" she argued. The practice of death threats ...; Created on 12 July 2015
25. Trade Deals Are Giving Corporations the Power to Intimidate Tiny Countries: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... then called to his cell to ask whether anyone in the house had died. Murders, threats, and attacks have followed the environmental activists who oppose a gold mining project in the Cabañas department ...; Created on 13 May 2015
26. Murdered environmental activists remembered: (Mining and Human Rights); ... activist from the community of La Maraña. “We also want to reiterate our demands that the Office of the Attorney General conducts a thorough investigation of the murders to find both material and intellectual ...; Created on 30 December 2014
27. CALL FOR SUPPORT: International month of action against Canadian/Australian miner OceanaGold: (International Month of Action); ... activists have been assassinated since 2009 whose murders have not been ade-quately investigated. Many other environmental defenders currently live under continuous death threats against their lives and ...; Created on 04 September 2014
28. Facing Goliath: CIEL lends David a (legal) hand: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... that the company has generated a social conflict that has resulted in the murders, torture, kidnappings, and assaults to environmental defenders. Pacheco stated that this mine is a major concern to ...; Created on 06 August 2014
29. A corporate warning to El Salvador: Give up your gold or pay $315 million: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... pueblo repopulated by ex-guerillas from the Salvadoran Civil War, and you’ll find a quiet community with deep divisions over the mining debate. At least three murders of anti-mining activists have been ...; Created on 06 August 2014
30. Resistance against metallic mining in El Salvador commemorates International Day Against Open Pit Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... He also recalled the murders of environmentalists Marcelo Rivera, Dora Sorto, Ramiro Rivera and Francisco Durán, from Sensuntepeque, Cabañas, who opposed the exploration and mining. "Mining multinationals ...; Created on 05 August 2014
31. El Salvador, violence and impunity: (Mining and Human Rights); ... hunger for the world’s resources gets ever more competitive, killings of those defending their rights to land and the environment will rise and rise.” His team’s work in collecting information on murders ...; Created on 13 February 2014
32. PRESS RELEASE: Mesa condemns attempted murder: (Media Releases); ... reported extrange, anonymous phone calls made to his personal phone. Given the history of death threats, persecution and murders against members of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining ...; Created on 09 October 2013
33. PRESS RELEASE: Mesa introduces new Special Law to Ban Mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... documented and targeted murders, in 2009, of opponents of the mining industry have occurred, the real debate about the implications of mining has been silenced in El Salvador. The commitments made by ...; Created on 01 October 2013
34. New acts of violence and intimidation against members of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining: (Mining and Human Rights); ... defenders is the result of our continued resistance against the metal mining industry in the country, and therefore we demand: 1. As in the case of the murders of environmentalists Marcelo Rivera, ...; Created on 09 July 2013
35. PRELIMINARY REPORT “Gold Mining and the Defense of Water in El Salvador”: (Background and reports ); ... and environmentally sustainable solutions, not mining, and expressed frustration that the murders of anti-mining activists Marcelo Rivera, Ramiro Rivera, Dora Alicia Sorto and Juan Francisco Durán Ayala ...; Created on 24 May 2013
36. Take Action to Support El Salvador’s Human Right to Water: (2013 International Support for Mining Ban); ... operations from Cabañas and cease all efforts to mine gold at the El Dorado site - Cooperate fully with the Attorney General's investigations into the murders of environmentalists Alicia Sorto Recinos, ...; Created on 11 October 2012
37. Mining Ambition Impedes Environmental Justice: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... word on whether mining will be approved or not. Also, he is close-lipped about the murders in his department. Francisco Pineda, who has lost count of how many threats he has received in spite of protection ...; Created on 18 July 2012
38. “It wasn’t the Attorney General’s Office that harassed me, it was the DECO: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... not by the Attorney General’s Office, as was reported in a story published on April 16th. Recently, the Specialized Sentencing Court of San Salvador sentenced those accused for the murders of five environmentalists ...; Created on 10 May 2012
39. Pac Rim Announces Pending ICSID Decision, the Social Movement Responds: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the El Dorado mine. He had been shot in the head. The company denies any involvement in these murders. Shout Out Against Mining Injustice Both Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies Fellow John ...; Created on 30 April 2012
40. Cabañas 2012 Sign On Letter: (2013 International Support for Mining Ban); ... Rivera and Dora Sorto, and Sorto’s unborn child, to between 30 and 145 years in prison. The murders were carried out over a span of seven months in 2009 in the town of Trinidad, Sensuntepeque, Cabañas, ...; Created on 24 April 2012

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