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From Mining to Water: 25 years of Community Solidarity and Organizing

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
by J. Alejandro Artiga-Purcell * - SHARE   Cabañas, El Salvador – This Saturday, in Victoria, Cabañas, over 900 people gathered in the blazing hot plaza to celebrate Radio Victoria and the Social Economic Development Association’s (ADES) 25th anniversary. The sister organizations hosted a ...

The international dimensions of the fight for water in El Salvador

| Water Crisis El Salvador
P. Cabezas Local companies tied to foreign capital drive the push to privatize water magament and services in El Salvador. The fight for the defence of water in El Salvador and the recent conflicts that have arisen between legislators and the movement for the defence of water are nothing new ...

Founding statement: National Alliance against Water Privatization in El Salvador

| Media Releases
San Salvador June 16, 2018 This morning members of more than seventy social organizations, environmentalists, youth, women groups, churches, unions and universities across the country marched through the main streets of San Salvador to make the public launch of the National Alliance against th...

Bishops of El Salvador warn against privatizing water

| Water Crisis El Salvador
Catholic News Service SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR — El Salvador's bishops urged lawmakers to discard any plans for privatizing water in the Central American country, saying the poor could not afford to pay the cost of a vital necessity. In a terse statement, issued June 12 and titled, "We wi...

Water 2.0 - Salvadoreans take to the streets to battle renewed attempts to privatize water resources

| Water Crisis El Salvador
P. Cabezas Barely six weeks have passed since the newly elected, right wing dominated legislature took office, but recent frictions between security personnel of the legislature and university students protesting the potential privatization of water already paint a grim picture of things to come...

El Salvador: first anniversary of the mining ban A cause for celebration, but the new law faces dangers

| Mining prohibition El Salvador
Andrés McKinley - UK LAB On March 29th, 2017, the small country of El Salvador became the first nation in the world to exercise its sovereign right to say “no” to metallic mining after carefully analyzing the costs and benefits of this industry. This historic decision was the result of a persist...

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