... million-dollar lawsuits in international courts sanctioned through trade agreements, the lack of a clear policy to deal with the threats of internal and cross-border mining, the continued discussion of ...
... the case under a provision of El Salvador's Investment Law. This provision allowed foreign investors to bypass local courts and take their disputes directly to international tribunals. Since then El Salvador ...
... international courts, acting under local Investment Law and the Free Trade Agreements signed by El Salvador, proving once again that only thing the care about is money. 4 - Our rejection of both open-pit ...
... sue our country in international corporate courts, demanding hundreds of millions of dollars, and death threats against members of the anti-mining resistance persist. Mining conflicts have also deepened ...
... corrupt relationship between company officials and local authorities such as the mayor’s office, the police and the local courts are rampant.
La Mesa’s Australia campaign La Mesa is an inspiring force ...
... to bypass local legislation to sue the state under international corporate courts. The recent reform of Article 15 of the Investment Law, then, is merely a symbolic affirmation of the urgency to make comprehensive ...
By Leonel Flores, ARPAS Editorial
Last week the Legislature of El Salvador amended the Investment Law so that disputes between foreign investors and the state are settled in local courts before going ...
... claims in domestic courts.
Below is an editorial aired on the ARPAS Radio Network that calls for support for the Mesa.
A Question of Sovereignty
By, the ARPAS Editorial Team
Yesterday, the ...
... suit under the U.S-Ecuador Bilateral Investment Treaty to try to evade complying with judgments made and confirmed in U.S. and Ecuador courts. Even before it decided it had jurisdiction, a tribunal issued ...
... Park. While these eight remain imprisoned, five others, who initially had the charges against them dropped after voluntarily presenting themselves to the courts, were notified last month that an appellate ...