... 2012 -- Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project begins providing protective accompaniment to the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya.
December 2012 -- Security guards hired by Exmingua intimidate journalists ...
... more than 60% of the Guatemalan population is of indigenous origin.
He recalled how the company arrived for the first time and how from the beginning the company turned to the well-known strategy of ...
... are the criminal investigations like those that followed the Aymarazo. According to the lawyer, these cases bring real economic, social and psychological damage "the process of criminalisation that begins ...
... this was not a simple a gesture of good will but the beginning of a callous plan to further the neoliberal economic agenda.
Emboldened by the new balance of power, the ECCC moved to deny all public requests ...
... improve the perilous social conditions of the community:
to conduct works to stop the acid drainage and to clean up the contamination left by the company,
to immediately begin works to provide access ...
... extractive activities in Guatemala or Honduras.
Vidalina Morales, a member of ADES and an anti-mining activist involved in the movement since its beginnings, stressed that the mining industry is harmful ...
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But the development of the mining program quickly stalled due to fierce opposition from local communities who prevented mining explorations to begin in the departments of Cabañas and Chalatenango. By ...
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In 2004, after two years of searching for gold in El Salvador, the Pacific Rim Mining Corporation requested permits to begin mining close to the Lempa River. After several years of negotiations, political ...
... beginning. She hopes El Salvador’s monumental victory will reverberate around the world.
“It is a momentous step in the history of a country as small as El Salvador, that opens the doors to be an example ...
... opposition from a wide range of groups inside and outside El Salvador, the ICSID tribunal ruled against the company.
When legislators announced that they would begin serious discussion on the mining ban, ...
... powerful precedent for standing up for national sovereignty and clean water against transnational corporate interests. Nevertheless, efforts by the newly-elected FMLN beginning in 2009 — the same year ...
... mining held in El Salvador. Three municipalities have already voted NO – and almost unanimously so. Therefore the expectations for the referendum in Arcatao are high from the beginning. “Of course this ...
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Grassroots Organization Against Mining
Everything begins on the work tables of each municipality, where authorities, peasant leaders and representatives of nongovernmental organizations gather. Then, ...
... the country. It provided precious metals, which were extracted up to the beginning of the Civil War. Then the US companies fled hurriedly. Since then, the mine has been standing still. Only the sons of ...
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CRIPDES has accompanied the Stop Mad Mining campaign of the Christian Romero Initiative, CIR, in Germany since the beginning of 2015. In March, CIR reported on the third local public referendum in the ...
... are beginning to reclaim their sovereignty from the grassroots up.
In a piece that appeared Monday at Common Dreams, Salvadoran-Canadian activist Juan Carlos Jimenez pointed out that the agricultural ...
... are beginning to rebuild sovereignty from the ground up with municipal plebiscites to declare themselves free of mining. Three municipalities in the department of Chalatenango declared themselves a mining-free ...
... system. In response, communities are beginning to rebuild sovereignty from the ground up with municipal plebiscites to declare themselves free of mining. Three municipalities in the department of Chalatenango ...
... in El Salvador have decided to move ahead of the national debate and have already set out their position on mining.
At the beginning of March, the municipality of Nueva Trinidad, in Chalatenango, became ...
... Rim and El Salvador's government will present their cases at hearings beginning on Sept. 15, which is El Salvador's Independence Day, at the World Bank's International Centre for the Settlement of Investment ...