By Aruna Dutt : IPS News
Cabañas, El Salvador, Mar 1 2017 (IPS) - The citizens of Cinquera municipality in Cabañas delivered a resounding vote against mining, on Sunday February 26th, when 98 percent ...
by NICK ALEXANDROV
The revolutionary Salvadoran writer Roque Dalton once remarked, in his poem “OAS,” that “the President of the United States is more president of my country than the president of ...
... companies. Another mechanism that generates water injustice, and favors theft and dispossession, are the private agreements between ANDA (National Association for the Management of Sewers and Aqueducts) ...
... rights and environmental due diligence legislation” that would apply to the sector, she said that “the problem with this legislation is oftentimes it can be another public relations and impression-management ...
GuapinolResiste
After finding that the detention of the eight Guapinol defenders imprisoned for more than 17and 26 months is arbitrary, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention urges the Government ...
... has thus far refused to release any details about its communications with Goldcorp, Guatemala, or the commission itself.
Another Canadian court is currently hearing a separate case about a mining firm ...
... an area larger than the Netherlands had burned.
Another crucial factor is the role of international development institutions and treaty bodies, which regularly judge disputes involving foreign investors. ...
... it could not deal with all the violations of all commercial companies around the world,” Morgantini says.
“Another fundamental element is that the current draft of the Treaty does not foresee direct ...
... Marcelo Rivera organized a team and raised the money to make uniforms that read “Out With Pac Rim” and “No to Mining.” They won the tournament.
In another case, Broad and Cavanagh write, “At one of their ...
... conducted by the University of Central America in 2007 and 2015, which revealed overwhelming disapproval for mining.
Another factor was La Mesa’s framing of the issue. The water defenders did not see ...
... is worthwhile.
Another neighbor speaking against the expansion said he’s unnerved by the gold mine’s recent history of violating environmental laws. The Haile Gold Mine and a laboratory have been fined ...
... to post another $10 million in cash for the expansion.
By law, many companies with the potential to hurt the environment must assure money is available for a cleanup one day. Many rely on insurance policies, ...
... that already was in place. He was the one that actually led people to travel to Honduras to see the devastation of mining there through another old mining site in El Salvador. And that's what made people ...
... and that those responsible for the illegal detention should be investigated.
The Working Group urged the Honduran State not to wait because every day they do not release them, they are committing another ...
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Beth Geglia and Andrea Nuila
It’s almost like an insult that this is happening to us now, after so much sacrifice to develop the community to the point it’s at today,” Venessa Cardenas explains, ...
... of their lands by the mine.
Another Pan American Silver operation, located in northern Peru, has been the source of even more conflict. Construction of the Shahuindo gold mine in Cajamarca started in ...
... agreement, it requires ratification by each member state of the EU, which is likely to take more than a year.
4. Conclusion In conclusion, 2021 is shaping up to be another busy year for Latin America ...
... of the initial validity of the 25-year FTAA, OGPI has suspended the company’s operation for more than a year now and has been working with the national government for its renewal possibly for another 25 ...
... Achieving sustainable organic agricultural production over time can help a family not depend on another work activity, as in the case of the Reyes-Membreño family.
“There are many people who are very ...
... contract was obtained through corrupt means. Ultimately, the Tribunal rejected the corruption allegations holding that the casual link between the evidence and the contract was insufficient.
In yet another ...