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Pacific Rim tried to negotiate with the government anticipating and adverse ruling

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Jose Mejia | Transparecia Activa  Luis Parada, the attorney representing the Salvadoran State in the international litigation initiated by Pacific Rim/Oceana Gold, explained that before an adverse ruling, the company tried to delay the resolution of the award and evaluate whether the governm...

Law suit against El Salvador one of the longest running cases in the history of ICSID

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By:  P. Cabezas Anti-mining activists in el Salvador and their allies in the US and Australia demanded on April 28th that de International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, ICSID, release immediately a a favorable resolution in the impending case of Pacific Rim Mining vs El ...

Law suit against El Salvador one of the longest running cases in the history of ICSID

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By:  P. Cabezas Anti-mining activists in el Salvador and their allies in the US and Australia demanded on April 28th that de International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, ICSID, release immediately a a favorable resolution in the impending case of Pacific Rim Mining vs El ...

NEW BOOK: Rethinking Bilateral Trade Agreements

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Republished from Both ENDS  See chapter on "ISDS, Extractive Industries and the Pacific Rim vs El Salvador case" on page 231, written by Sarah Anderson and Manuel Perez Rocha from the Institute for Policy Studies.     In 1959, Germany and Pakistan signed the first ...

PRESS RELEASE: Mining, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Conflict: OceanaGold and the El Dorado Foundation in El Salvador

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Download the Report here (Ottawa/Washington/Melbourne)  A new study finds that OceanaGold’s attempt to rebrand its proposed gold mine in El Salvador through the use of a company-sponsored foundation at the local level is deceitful, disrespectful and dangerous. Mining, Corporate...

El Salvador: ‘We will never lose our faith’

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Vidalina Morales, president, Association for Economic and Social Development of El Salvador (ADES) interviewed for The Guardian in response to the murder of Honduran activist Berta Caceres.   I felt indignation and sadness at Berta’s murder. I cried a lot and felt pain.  And it is not...

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