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Conservative candidate Carlos Calleja against mining in El Salvador

| Mining prohibition El Salvador
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...

Cross border mining will be the next phase of the anti-mining struggle in El Salvador

| Cerro Blanco
Gloria Silvia Orellana - Diario CoLatino "My mother was the daughter of miners and when I told her everything that happened here (in El Salvador) she told me that when her father finished working (in a mining project) the area was left deserted and the damaged, and the impacts are similar in...

OceanaGold announces it will stay in El Salvador despite prohibition

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
P. Cabezas Members of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining demanded the immediate removal of Australian/Canadian OceanaGold mining company of El Salvador after the Attorney General's Office reported that the mining company Oceana Gold had paid the $ 8 million dollars awarded by the Int...

PRESS RELEASE: To the national and international public opinion

| Media Releases
Social movements say: no to the privatization of water in El Salvador We want to express our deep rejection of the "Integral Water Law" proposal presented in mid-June by the National Association of Private Enterprise (ANEP) before the Legislative Assembly and supported by ARENA and other right-w...

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

| Mining prohibition El Salvador
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

| Mining prohibition El Salvador
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...

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