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International community calls for release of El Salvador antimining activists
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 ...
El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger
Jacobin
Owen Schalk
Following its failed crypto scheme, authoritarian president Nayib Bukele’s cash-strapped government is making moves to reverse El Salvador’s metal mining ban. Its reintroducti...
Santa Marta Community Leaders Are Persecuted in El Salvador
TeleSur
Five social leaders were arrested due to a judicial order that links them to an alleged case that occurred during the civil war.
On Thursday, Santa Marta's Association for Social Economi...
Salvadoran environmental defenders detained for decades-old crimes
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 ...
250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders
Common Dreams
Jessica Corbett
Critics warn that the Salvadoran government is "desperate for revenues" and trying to "demobilize potential grassroots opposition" to reversing a historic nationwide...
Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?
Mongabay
Maxwell Radin
El Salvador banned all mining of metals in 2017, but environmentalists are concerned that the government is preparing to reverse the decision and bring in international inv...
Noteworthy
NEW BOOK: The water defenders - how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed
Water is life. Countless communities across the world, from Flint, Michigan to the Standing Rock Reservation to the Gualcarque River in Honduras, have used this phrase as a rallying cry against pow...
From dreams of gold to organic agriculture
* Angélica Cárcamo / Norma Ramírez - ARPAS
In 2000, the Pacific Rim mining company intended to employ 450 families in the Department of Cabañas, north of El Salvador. Although the mining project ...