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Bill Clinton Leads Sinister Business Alliance in El Salvador

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Republished from: CISPES On Monday, November 9, El Salvador was host to an unusual meeting of some of the continent’s wealthiest and most influential players: former US President Bill Clinton, notorious Mexican telecom magnate Carlos Slim, and Canadian businessman Frank Giustra, who has made a c...

Women in Resistance Against the World Bank

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Antonia Recinos - ADES/Radio Victoria On Thursday October 22, the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining-MNFM and representatives of various communities and social organizations gathered outside the offices of the World Bank in San Salvador  to express their firm opposition to metallic...

Statement in support of El Salvador from Amianan Salakniban in the Philippines (2)

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LEARN FROM EL SALVADOR WHO KICKED OCEANAGOLD OUT Press Release Amianan Salakniban, the broadest network of environmental organizations and advocates in North Luzon, Philippines, expresses their support for El Salvador’s Day of Action against OceanaGold last October 22. “The victory of the peop...

Salvadoran Civil Society Confronts World Bank on Pending Lawsuit on Mining

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By Marina Bonetti Communities and organizations gathered in front of the World Bank in San Salvador to demand a fair verdict on the lawsuit of Pacific Rim vs El Salvador. After days of uninterrupted rain, on Thursday October 22nd the sun came back to shine on hundreds of community members and ...

El Salvador presents new motion prior to the relasing of the verdict on the Pacific Rim case.

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El Diario de Hoy - Translation: Marina Bonetti A diplomatic document shows that Pacific Rim lied to the tribunal about the time in which it decided to initiate the lawsuit against El Salvador before the World Bank. The ICSID tribunal could re-open the case, after having already taken an interim...

The lawsuit that could put El Salvador in check

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By: Alejandra Martins - BBC Mundo / Translation: Marina Bonetti and Sigrun Pallesen In an office in Washington, three arbitrators are about to decide on the lawsuit filed by the multinational mining company OceanaGold against El Salvador. According to the government of the Central Ame...

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