by Maxwell Radwin on 2 August 2023 - MONGABAY
Calls from the international community are growing for the release of five environmental activists fighting water pollution and mining in El Salvador ...
... was swift and brutal. It violently broke up the protest camp, militarized the entire region and arrested 32 local environmental activists.
In 2019, 12 of the accused environmentalists appeared voluntarily ...
... resources and leave others in the ground. Due to climate science if not solidarity, the prospects of local communities and activists for notching environmental wins against wealthy and well-connected companies ...
The Nation
Robin Broad and John Cavanagh
In March 2017, people from poorer communities across El Salvador stood up to corporate power and convinced their legislature to make their country the first ...
... lack of space and the deplorable sanitary conditions they live in. This is the situation of seven environmental activists who have been held in preventive detention since last September at the Olanchito ...
... environmental permits to various companies, according to environmentalists in the country. The fear of activists is that the new government will grant mining exploration permits, even though there is a ...
P. Cabezas
Yolanda Flores, DHUMA: more than 80% of the Peruvian territory has been concessioned to mining activity. Photo: ACAFREMINSan Salvador - Representatives of indigenous communities, social ...
... hundred anti-mining activists from mining affected communities in Cabañas arrived at the San Salvador Cathedral this past Sunday to participate in a special service to commemorate the fifth anniversary ...
By Theresa Wolfwood
Vidalina joined 17 Victoria activists at a potluck supper in Victoria last night. She spoke about her family, her community and the importance of the struggle to keep metal mining ...
Political Candidates Answer to Anti-Mining Activists in San Salvador and Cabañas
March 2012
Monday March 5, the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining in El Salvador (The Mesa in Spanish) together ...
... Prominent Anti-Mining Activists
CANADIAN DIMENSION: El Salvador arrests anti-mining activists as transnational companies eye investment
INEQUALITY: Is Mining Money Behind the Arrest of Salvadoran Water ...
... prohibition is facing new threats. On January 11, the Salvadoran government ordered the arrest of five prominent anti-mining activists and water defenders: Miguel Ángel Gámez, Alejandro Laínez García, ...
The Guardian Nina Lakhani
Activists worry the arrests are a move by the cash-strapped government to open the country to now banned metals mining Five prominent environmental defenders who played a crucial ...
... also arrested several anti-mining activists on what critics say are dubious charges. Five “water defenders,” who led the charge on the 2017 mining ban — and who had begun to speak out again last year — ...
... used to arrest the social activists reveal the construction of a legal case whose real purpose is to attack the Santa Marta community and the ADES leaders.
Through a statement, the community of Santa ...
... by issuing a public statement declaring the referendum illegal and not sanctioned by the government of Guatemala, however, local activists said that neither the ministry nor the company has jurisdiction ...
... that documents the events and strategies that led to the historic ban on metal mining in El Salvador.
Seen from the perspective of the activists who let the local struggle against mining, the document ...
... killings of Indigenous leaders, the classification of activists as terrorists, and the bombing of Indigenous schools,” Asuncion said.
From 2010-2016, at least 73 Indigenous peoples were killed in the ...
... nearly 4,000 people are calling on the Vancouver-based company to halt all community activities in the Central American country.
In mid-April, activists delivered a petition to Pan American Silver urging ...