... paramilitary groups, including the massacres perpetrated in Santa Marta and surrounding communities, by troops from the Sensuntepeque Military Detachment No2, led by the recently deceased Colonel Sigifredo ...
Water is life. Countless communities across the world, from Flint, Michigan to the Standing Rock Reservation to the Gualcarque River in Honduras, have used this phrase as a rallying cry against powerful ...
... countries, Torres´ perspective changed: “Pacific Rim talked about green mining. But we saw that the company was going to benefit from the profits and we were going to be left with the damages to the environment. ...
... to account,” said Dulce.
A group of scientists from Agham conducted an environmental investigation mission in 2014 in the mining community and found damages to forests, and air and water pollution linked ...
... fighting to protect community health and water from negative mining impacts — are facing new threats.
These trends are laid out in a global solidarity statement released June 2 and signed by over 300 ...
How the Global Mining Industry is Profiting from the COVID-19 Pandemic
This report provides in-depth cases to exemplify the four trends highlighted in the international open letter “Global Solidarity ...
YSUCA
The Cerro Blanco mine is located just 15 kilometres from the border with El Salvador, in the municipality of Asunción Mita in the department of Jutiapa, Guatemala. Since 2006, the project has posed ...
... especially for the loggerhead turtle. Now, the mining company seeks compensation from the Mexican State for more than 3.5 billion dollars for its losses and has filed a formal complaint with an international ...
... no longer apply to Canada, and only a limited version will remain in place between the U.S. and Mexico.
The overdue removal of ISDS from NAFTA is rightfully being celebrated by Canadians. Even Canada’s ...
... originate in their struggle to repopulate the town of Santa Marta, Cabañas, at the height of the bloody civil war. Founded by community members on their return from Honduran refugee camps, ADES and Radio ...
Gloria Silvia Orellana - Diario CoLatino
Manuel Pérez Rocha, fellow from the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), participated in the Regional Meeting of the Central American Alliance Against Mining. ...
PRESS RELEASE: National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining
For many years El Salvador has faced serious environmental degradation provoked in its majority by industrial processes of big corporations. ...
Gloria Orellana – CoLatino.
Berta Caceres' murder did not fall on "deaf ears", peasant and indigenous organizations from Honduras and El Salvador have decided, under a banner of solidarity, to unite to ...
LEARN FROM EL SALVADOR WHO KICKED OCEANAGOLD OUT
Press Release
Amianan Salakniban, the broadest network of environmental organizations and advocates in North Luzon, Philippines, expresses their support ...
Von Svenja Riebow: Amerika21 - Translation: Marina Bonetti
From September 30th to October 15th, Bernardo Belloso, president of the Association for Development travelled on a speaking tour through Germany, ...
... company trying to use opaque and unaccountable ISDS tribunals to effectively steal from a sovereign state. Governments should be standing up for the rights of their own people, rather than handing power ...
... amidst the relentless push by mining corporations to extract and profit from these resources.
We are in solidarity with the Salvadoran movements in their continuing struggle against mining.
We are ...
... aid and relief organization Oxfam America praised the ten members of Congress who urged the National Assembly of El Salvador to take immediate action to protect the environment and local communities from ...
... aid and relief organization Oxfam America praised the ten members of Congress who urged the National Assembly of El Salvador to take immediate action to protect the environment and local communities from ...
Concerned Citizens from Across the U.S. Call on a Milwaukee Company to Act Ethically
A Milwaukee Company’s Toxic Legacy
In 2006, the Salvadoran government decided to revoke the failed Milwaukee-based ...