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Conservative candidate Carlos Calleja against mining in El Salvador

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Translated from Ultima Hora Carlos Calleja, the candidate to the presidency for the Republican Nationalist Alliance, ARENA party, considers himself to be a true environmentalist and has declared he is against mining in El Salvador. He made the statements through his social media accounts.  L...

In Mining-Affected Communities, Water Is Becoming More Precious Than Gold

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By Jen Moore : MiningWatch Canada Latin America is slowly winning the fight against the corporate assault of transnational Canadian mining companies El Salvador made history last month when it became the first country to ban metal mining outright. In what’s become a decade-long annual r...

In El Salvador, a moment more precious than gold

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By Andrés McKinley : NCR SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR, There are times in life when things come together, forces galvanize, pieces fall into place and processes take on a magical quality that keeps you wondering when the dream will end. That's what it felt like for those of us in the strug...

How Local, Grassroots Organizing Drove El Salvador’s Mining Ban

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* Yevgeniya Yatsenko and Sebastian Rosemont : Foreign Policy in Focus U.S. environmentalists take note: El Salvador's activists proved that a national consensus on environmentalism can be forged one town at a time. Amid a natural gas boom, could U.S. activists ever dream of a national ban o...

Historic Wins for Democracy and Rights in El Salvador

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Robin Broad and John Cavanagh : Ethics and International Affairs   Recently there have been two giant wins for democracy, human rights, and the environment in an unlikely spot: the small, embattled nation of El Salvador. The most recent win was in March 2017, when the national legislatu...

El Salvador – When The Seeds Of Resistance Bloom

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Thomas Mc Donagh and Aldo Orellana López : The Democracy Center On 29th March 2017 legislators in El Salvador approved a blanket ban on all metal mining activities in the country – the first country in the world to do so. The historic vote came just six months after a World Bank t...

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