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Public statement from social movement organizations on the detention of members of the Santa Marta community and ADES in El Salvador

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#SantaMartaNoEstaSola San Salvador. January 11, 2023. During the early hours of Wednesday, January 11, agents of the Attorney General Prosecutor's Office and the National Civil Police of El Salvador arrested Miguel Ángel Gámez, Alejandro Laínez García and Pedro Antonio Rivas, members of the San...

PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador

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THE GENERAL LAW ON WATER RESOURCES APPROVED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY LEGALIZES WATER INJUSTICE, PROMOTES THE THEFT AND DISPOSSESSION OF WATER IN THE TERRITORIES San Salvador, December 22, 2021. On December 21 of this year, the ruling party of the Legislative Assembly approved the General La...

Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining in El Salvador

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Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining El Salvador San Salvador December 16, 2021 - Only four years have passed since El Salvador banned metal mining in all its forms. The struggle led by communities affected by the threat of mining lasted more than twelve years, a...

Central American antimining activists gather in El Salvador to discuss joint strategies for action

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P. Cabezas   Yolanda Flores, DHUMA: more than 80% of the Peruvian territory has been concessioned to mining activity. Photo: ACAFREMINSan Salvador - Representatives of indigenous communities, social movements, environmentalists and human rights defenders gathered in El Salvador to part...

Over two hundred organizations denounce multimillion-dollar suit brought by U.S. mining firm against Guatemala

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April 24, 2019   Today, a letter signed by 227 Guatemalan and international networks and organizations was delivered to Guatemalan authorities and the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala. The letter denounces the US$300 million-dollar suit that the U.S. mining company Kappes, Cassiday & Associat...

Founding statement: National Alliance against Water Privatization in El Salvador

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San Salvador June 16, 2018 This morning members of more than seventy social organizations, environmentalists, youth, women groups, churches, unions and universities across the country marched through the main streets of San Salvador to make the public launch of the National Alliance against th...

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