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Mining prohibition El Salvador

Threats to the Law Against Metallic Mining

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Mirian Garcia - Varguardia Organizations that were key players in the struggle to prohibit metal mining in El Salvador, expressed their concern about the upcoming legislative political balance of power which could jeopardize their victory. A year has passed since the Law against Metallic Mining...

How El Salvador Won on Mining

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Esty DInur - The Progressive In March 2017, El Salvador, a country with deposits of gold and silver, became the first and only country in the world to ban all metallic mining. The process took twelve years, according to Pedro Cabezas, who runs the mining and human rights program of&...

Looming threats to the mining prohibition in El Salvador

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P. Cabezas In March 2017, El Salvador became the first country in the world to ban metallic mining. But the huge victory of the antimining movement and the international recognition it has garnered may be overshadowed by a current electoral campaign that threatens to reverse the legislative bala...

A year with a bitter taste in environmental matters in El Salvador

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Alfredo Carias: Vanguardia In the midst of an important victory in El Salvador, an evaluation of the social and environmental conditions in the country contrasts to the achievements obtained with the prohibition of mining. According to the Salvadoran authorities, progress has been made in the a...

The Fight Against Gold Mining in El Salvador

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Article on the Chalatenango Free of Mining Campaign published in Practicing Anthropology. Read Here

The fight for the environment in El Salvador gets recognition in Los Angeles

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Francisco Coto - La Opinion For 13 years, Vidalina Morales and other environmental activists, led constant fight against a Canadian/Australian mining company which threatened the north of El Salvador. It is an activism that has brought both death threats and triumphs to Morales, who arrived...

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