... water resources should be in the hands of the State (central government).
In the midst of this increasingly conflictive debate, it is important to reflect on the basic principles that should guide ...
... threaten populations. The continuation of the conflict over the Tambor Mine in Guatemala potentially could lead to yet another case of a company suing a government of Central America over mining.
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P. Cabezas
Local companies tied to foreign capital drive the push to privatize water magament and services in El Salvador.
The fight for the defence of water in El Salvador and the recent conflicts ...
... local watershed committees, assigning permits, resolving conflicts over the use of water, establishing fees for services, regulating tariffs and other strategic policies of the national water distribution ...
... mining operations, due to the social and environmental damage they say has been caused since they began in 2007.
Conflicts like this have broken out in other areas of Guatemala and in other Central American ...
... authorities to try to have an exploitation license approved. At the local level in Cabañas, the company led a disastrous community relations campaign that engendered deadly conflict in the communities ...
... northern El Salvador, the negative impacts of its ICSID suit, and the conflicts that have resulted from OceanaGold’s ongoing operation in northern El Salvador, including through the El Dorado Foundation; ...
... but then a number of people visited large-scale mines just across the border in Honduras and returned home with horrifying tales of polluted water, health ailments, and rising conflict in the communities ...