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Research reveals that right wing parties collaborate with mining companies in the department of Cabanas.

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By Wilber Ruano: RNES An investigation by MiningWatch Canada reports that the activities of the El Dorado Foundation, originally established by Pacific Rim in El Salvador in 2005, and now run by OCEANAGOLD, violate the rights of the inhabitants of the department of Cabañas. Researcher Jennifer Mo...

“El Dorado Foundation” develops misleading social programs: Jennifer Moore

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By Gloria Orellana  - CoLatino "The activities of the El Dorado Foundation are misleading, are dangerous and show a lack of deep respect for the people of Cabañas and El Salvador," said Jennifer Moore, Coordinator of the Latin America Program Mining Watch Canada, while presenting a joint res...

In the Keystone Suit, It’s Big Oil vs. Democracy

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Janet Redman: Foreign Policy in Focus A Canadian oil conglomerate is suing the U.S. over its actions to protect the climate. It’s a small taste of what could come under the TPP. A few years back, I was one of the hundreds of climate activists arrested while protesting the Keystone XL pi...

A dirty gold fever

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Alexandra Endres: Zeit online / Translation: Marina Bonetti El Salvador sits on a rich gold deposit – and wants to leave it in the ground, in order to protect its drinking water. The investor sues: a test of strength for the young democracy. “End poverty, Not Democracy!” Demonstrators protes...

Justice delayed: Environmentalists assassinated in Cabañas remembered

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P. Cabezas As the world celebrated the conclusion of the COP21 talks in Paris, the somber mood in the community of La Maraña, in the northern department of Cabañas of El Salvador, hardly echoes the cheerful worldwide fetes. A few days after the signing of the of the accord in December, members o...

El Salvador: Just Saying No to Gold Mining

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* Rachel Nadelman: Aula Blog El Salvador’s refusal to allow gold mining within its borders sets it apart from most other Latin American countries, but the mining suspension is far from permanent.  Since 2007, three successive presidents, from both the right-wing ARENA and left-wing FMLN part...

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