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21. Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... supervise the operation of those who participate in mining activities, without distinguishing between metallic and non-metallic mining. It also proposes obtaining mining resources as a "duty of the State" ...; Created on 16 December 2021
22. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); CLICK THE PHOTO TO DOWNLOAD REPORT IN SPANISHOn the fourth anniversary of the historic ban on metal mining in El Salvador, the National Roundtable Against metallic mining of El Salvador released a report ...; Created on 29 June 2021
23. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... spectrum? Luis Parada: Marcelo Rivera was the first activist that sounded the alarm about the danger of metallic mining in the province of Cabañas, where he was from. And he's the one that started educating ...; Created on 22 March 2021
24. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... in its exploration phase, the company closed its facilities in 2017 due to the approval of the Law prohibiting metallic mining. Following the expectations of a local sector to improve the living conditions ...; Created on 05 January 2021
25. Environmentalists commemorate the 11th anniversary of the murder of Marcelo Rivera: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... year campaign, metallic mining was banned in El Salvador in March 2017, but the struggle of Salvadorean anti mining activists is far from over. Vidalina Morales, president of the Santa Marta Association ...; Created on 15 July 2020
26. Ostúa River contaminated with lead and arsenic from Cerro Blanco mine: (Cerro Blanco); ... the contamination from the mine into Lake Güija, confirmed Cidia Cortés, a biologist and researcher with the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining in El Salvador. The findings of the study ‘The ...; Created on 21 April 2020
27. Water, transparency and mining concerns in the Philippines: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... contributes to objective, evidence-based conversations and greater accountability of stakeholders. The Philippine EITI started to publicly disclose information about the large-scale metallic mining sector. ...; Created on 08 March 2020
28. Social Organizations demand compliance with the Prohibition of Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... for transforming the economic activities of artisanal miners (güiriceros). Finally, the organizations requested the drafting of regulations to apply the Law of Prohibition of Metallic Mining through different ...; Created on 26 December 2019
29. Marcelo's Legacy: The environmentalist who fought against metal mining in El Salvado: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... metal mining, allows us to be vigilant for those companies that are out there, waiting for a way to come back. The fight has been strong in the department and in the country with the Metallic Mining Prohibition ...; Created on 18 September 2019
30. National Roundtable against Metal Mining Demands technical closure of mines and compensation for environmental damage: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... and it failed to do so. As such, the Roundtable against Metal Mining has asked the new government of Nayib Bukele to resume the actions still pending from the approval of the Metallic Mining Ban. According ...; Created on 18 September 2019
31. Mining Grabs Up Land, Deals Blow to Agriculture in Central America: (Background and reports ); ... daily use, is vital for agriculture, and is affected by the presence of metallic minerals, like cyanide, all of which will alter food production." -- Julio González The villagers are fighting the El ...; Created on 07 May 2019
32. New Report Exposes Mining Companies Suing Latin American Countries Where Communities Defend Land and Environment: (FTAs & ISDS); ... with a solid legal defence, not only led the company to lose, but cleared the way for Salvadorans to ban all metallic mining country-wide in March 2017,” said report co-author and global economy researcher ...; Created on 03 May 2019
33. REPORT: Golden opportunities for profits, corporate plunder for OceanaGold Corporation: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... of their work. Broader movements such as the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining in El Salvador (also known as La Mesa) are also active to protect water rights and to counter corporate mining in ...; Created on 24 August 2018
34. El Salvador: first anniversary of the mining ban A cause for celebration, but the new law faces dangers: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Andrés McKinley - UK LAB On March 29th, 2017, the small country of El Salvador became the first nation in the world to exercise its sovereign right to say “no” to metallic mining after carefully analyzing ...; Created on 22 June 2018
35. How El Salvador Won on Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Esty DInur - The Progressive In March 2017, El Salvador, a country with deposits of gold and silver, became the first and only country in the world to ban all metallic mining. The process took twelve ...; Created on 07 May 2018
36. Salvadorans Reinforce Commitment to Sustain Historic Mining Ban on its First Anniversary: (Media Releases); ... Against Metallic Mining are reaffirming their commitment to ensure the small Central American country continues to be an example to the world in the defence of precious water supplies. They are also warning ...; Created on 06 May 2018
37. Looming threats to the mining prohibition in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); P. Cabezas In March 2017, El Salvador became the first country in the world to ban metallic mining. But the huge victory of the antimining movement and the international recognition it has garnered may ...; Created on 08 February 2018
38. Lack of proposals from political candidates on the Environmental Crisis in El Salvador: (Media Releases); 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. ...; Created on 08 February 2018
39. A year with a bitter taste in environmental matters in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... to the persecution of water defenders," said Ramírez. El Salvador concludes 2017 with a bitter taste victory since, despite having approved a law against metallic mining, there are still other laws that ...; Created on 01 February 2018
40. Latin American Women Weaving Territories: (Media Releases); ... struggle carried out for 12 years by various organized expressions of society that raised their voices against metallic mining. However, irreparable damage was done with the murder of Dora Sorto, who opposed ...; Created on 01 February 2018

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