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Central American mayors reject mining exploitation that affects strategic river

| Cerro Blanco
El Financiero A dozen mayors from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras expressed this Tuesday their opposition to the exploitation of the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala for contaminating the strategic Lempa River that runs through the three countries and supplies water to 4.5 million people. "We...

MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people

| Regional News
Thelma Gómez Durán | Mongabay * As of the 2009 coup, Honduras became a perfect political laboratory to destroy the institutions, says Miriam Miranda, coordinator of the Honduran Black Fraternal Organization (also known as Organización Fraternal Negra Hondureña, OFRANEH). This organization works ...

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

| Media Releases
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

| Media Releases
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...

El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again

| Mining prohibition El Salvador
*ANDRES MCKINLEY - El Faro On March 29, 2017, the Salvadoran population celebrated with joy, hope and pride the approval of a law prohibiting metallic mining in all of its forms at the national level. This historic victory of a country known primarily for its worrisome levels of social violence,...

La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador

| Mining prohibition El Salvador
CLICK THE PHOTO TO DOWNLOAD REPORT IN SPANISHOn the fourth anniversary of the historic ban on metal mining in El Salvador, the National Roundtable Against metallic mining of El Salvador released a report that documents the events and strategies that led to the historic ban on metal mining in El S...

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