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1. Recent Statements Cause Alarm for the Anti-Mining Movement: (Mining and Human Rights); Recent Statements Cause Alarm for the Anti-Mining Movement After months of waiting for the Salvadoran central government to release its mining sector Strategic Environmental Assessment, the Vice-Minister ...; Created on 24 May 2012
2. Semana Internacional de Accion para Demandar la Libertad de los 5 Defensores de Santa Marta y ADES: (Free the Santa Marta 5); ... estado dando la voz de alarma sobre los intentos de Bukele de reabrir las puertas a las empresas mineras multinacionales. A pesar de la falta de pruebas, los Defensores de Santa Marta fueron sentenciados ...; Created on 09 April 2023
3. International Week of Action Free the Santa Marta 5: (Free the Santa Marta 5); ... and Social Development Association (ADES), who was a key leader in the fight against mining for more than 12 years and had recently been sounding the alarm over Bukele’s attempts to re-open the door to ...; Created on 08 April 2023
4. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... defenders who were instrumental in achieving a 2017 legislative ban on metal mining in El Salvador. Global alarm has been building since Miguel Ángel Gámez, Alejandro Laínez García, Pedro Antonio Rivas ...; Created on 20 January 2023
5. Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... for mining and quarry exploration proposals. These latest events cause alarm because they seem aimed at allowing activities related to metal mining in the country. In addition, these actions of the government ...; Created on 16 December 2021
6. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... and journalists in Tocoa. Read news coverage based on evidence, not alarm. The roots of conflict Communities in Tocoa have persisted in organizing against the mines since 2011, when the Carlos Escaleras ...; Created on 06 May 2021
7. ‘Complete turnaround’: Philippines’ Duterte lifts ban on new mining permits: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... companies which have been suspended … plan to expand their mining operations in Palawan,” she told Mongabay. She added it’s especially alarming that these mining permits target areas of natural forest ...; Created on 15 April 2021
8. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... like Vidalina Morales and Antonio Pacheco of the local Association for Economic and Social Development (ADES) were quickly alarmed by the dried-up springs and groundwater sources caused by the mine’s exploratory ...; Created on 11 April 2021
9. WATER IS LIFE. CAN WE PROTECT IT?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... assassinated. These water defenders won over the most unlikely of allies, like a conservative archbishop alarmed by the dangers of cyanide. They even flew in a governor from the Philippines, who spoke ...; Created on 28 March 2021
10. 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
11. US Senators introduce bill to tackle corruption & rights violations in Honduras - cite Guapinol case: (Mining and Human Rights); ... of deeply alarming corruption and human rights abuses being committed at the highest levels of the Honduran government,” said Merkley, who serves on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “A failure to ...; Created on 23 February 2021
12. Criminalization increases against environmental defenders and social movements of the Central American region: (Regional News); ... where a significant resistance against extractive projects is taking place, have been punished with a partial State of Siege while extractive projects operate illegally. An alarming sign of this trend ...; Created on 26 December 2019
13. National Alliance Against the Privatization of Water “Water is not for sale, we care for it and defend it: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... the possibilities for adaptation. This is, without a doubt, an alarming reality in it of itself – nevertheless, we must add to this global reality a national environmental crisis that places us in a moment ...; Created on 26 September 2019
14. THE STRUGGLE FOR GOOD WATER GOVERNANCE CONTINUES IN EL SALVADOR: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... This alarming situation has led international organizations, such as the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Global Water Partnership (GWP) and the Latin American Water ...; Created on 27 August 2018
15. Threats to the Law Against Metallic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Morales denounced that a "green mining" campaign recently emerged on social media networks is raising the alarm of a possible counter-offensive by the industry to raise the issue again in the public arena ...; Created on 07 May 2018
16. Cross border mining will be the next phase of the anti-mining struggle in El Salvador: (Cerro Blanco); ... and to open ditches that alarmed the population. But according to Sister Teresa, the decision of the local community development association to ban mining, and the support from the local government were ...; Created on 14 November 2017
17. OceanaGold announces it will stay in El Salvador despite prohibition: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the next Legislative Assembly. This announcement has generated alarm in communities of Cabañas, as they consider the presence of the company a threat for the peace and wellbeing. The National Roundtable ...; Created on 27 July 2017
18. Across the Pacific: building a global struggle against the free-trade agenda of OceanaGold: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the lowest regulatory standards, and investor-state dispute systems undermining the sovereignty of nations are just among its alarming features. The growing international people’s struggle against the ...; Created on 26 September 2016
19. Xenia Marroquìn: “Water is not a merchandise, it is a human right”: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... companies that exploit the resources are trading electricity and using the resources in an unequal way without any regulation? There is an alarming situation in the Eastern part of the country, where ...; Created on 30 September 2015
20. El Salvador, violence and impunity: (Mining and Human Rights); ... they were to bring him in alive. When Father Quintanilla’s car alarm activated, the priest broke free and escaped his pursuers by diving down a ravine. The police and the Attorney General’s Office refused ...; Created on 13 February 2014

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