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Nueva Trinidad: 3rd Municipality in El Salvador to Declare Itself a “Mining Free Territory”

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Juan Carlos Jimenez - Upside Down World Nueva Trinidad, an agricultural town in the department of Chalatenango in El Salvador, became the third municipality in the country to declare itself a “Territory Free of Mining” after having a historic popular community consultation on March 29. In a pro...

SECOND MUNICIPALITY DECLARED FREE OF METAL MINING IN EL SALVADOR

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P. Cabezas Territorial organization to strengthen local democracy a key strategy for anti-mining activists in the country's unpredictable political environment. The municipality of San Isidro Labrador was declared free of mining after 98.74% of the registered voters who cast a ballot in a refer...

Municipality of San Jose Las Flores declared the first territory free of mining in El Salvador

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P. Cabezas Anti mining activists poised to organize at least ten more consultations in the Chalatenango region by the end of 2015.   September 21st, marked another historic day for San Jose Las Flores, a sleepy town nestled among the hills of the department of Chalatenango, as it vote...

Communities in rural El Salvador request a referendum to keep mining projects out of their territories.

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By Alfredo Carias, National Roundtable Against Mining in El Salvador translated from: http://tinyurl.com/mpx7p4n It was 2 pm in the afternoon as we heard a woman's voice, through a loud speaker located in the park of San Jose Las Flores, inviting people living in the urban core to att...

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