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OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD BANK

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El Salvador is being sued by Pacific Rim Mining, a Canadian based corporation owned by Australia's OceanaGold, before the International Center for the Settlement of Investments Disputes –ICSID-. The case will enter a critical stage in January 2014.  We need your support to urge World Bank ...

El Salvador faces "international mafias" in "frivolous" international law suits

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Translated from: http://tinyurl.com/mhvvolz By: Elder Gomez, CoLatino News El Salvador faces an "international mafia" seeking control of the country's natural resources, through "frivolous" legal international disputes, in which this nation has spent more than $3 million, while preparing a coun...

Buzzwords:Responsible Mining

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by Robin Broad First published in: http://triplecrisis.com/buzzwords-responsible-mining/#more-8529 Buzzwords and Fuzzwords - terms that became popular but mean vastly different things to different people. We've had a long list: development, sustainability, good governance, civil society, accoun...

El Salvador: buried treasure or fool's gold?

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By Whitney Eulich, Staff writer   Published in: http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2013/0910/El-Salvador-buried-treasure-or-fool-s-gold   San Isidro, El Salvador.  Walking through a sea of businessmen and information booths at a Toronto trade show, mining executive T...

“What is Happening to Canada’s Good Name?”

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“What is Happening to Canada’s Good Name?” As Pacific Rim pushes forward with its law suit for $77 million against the Salvadoran government, environmental, policy and trade organizations visited the Canadian Embassy in Washington on November 12th  to talk about the threats posed by Canadia...

Communities from Across the Hemisphere Speak out Against Pacific Rim

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Communities from Across the Hemisphere Speak out Against Pacific Rim On October 20th, thousands of people marched in Cabañas, El Salvador to voice their opposition to the proposed gold mining project of Pacific Rim, a Canadian mining company. The anti-mining movement in El Salvador has been gro...

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