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Congressional Briefing: Do Trade Agreement International Investor Protections Imperil Local Communities and the Environment?

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Do Trade Agreement International Investor Protections Imperil Local Communities and the Environment? On Wednesday, March 28th Luis Gonzalez, a member of the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining in El Salvador and Unidad Ecologica de El Salvador, joined experts on investor-state disputes i...

El Salvador—Guns, Gold and Choice

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El Salvador—Guns, Gold and Choice In 2010 Prof. Richard Steiner, from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and the Commission on Environmental Economic and Social Policy, visited El Salvador to investigate the actions of Canadian company Pacific Rim in the region of Cabañas.   ...

Public Citizen Commerce Group Backgrounder

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Backgrounder  CAFTA Investor Rights Undermining Democracy and the Environment: Commerce Group Case The Commerce Group Corporation, a mining firm registered and based in Wisconsin, is the second multinational company to attack El Salvador’s environmental policies under the controversial investor...

Background on Mining

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  A Brief History of Mining in El Salvador  I. Precedents. The Mining Legacy Metallic mining was carried out in the northeastern part of El Salvador for almost 100 years (1880-1970) and in the department of Cabañas during the 1950s.  Mining activity, even though it came to represent 15%...

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