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El Salvador Votes for Water over Gold

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By P. Cabezas & Sebastian Rosemont In response to enormous public pressure, lawmakers have rejected appeals by global corporations and voted to protect the country’s people and water supply by banning metallic mining.   The people of El Salvador and their international allies agains...

Political parties give assurances that they will support the prohibition of Metal Mining

| Mining prohibition El Salvador
Beatriz Calderón / ACAN-EFE A march led by archbishop Jose Luis Escobar Alas arrived at the Legislature demand the prohibition of metal mining.   A group of Salvadorans marched today to demand that the Legislature approve a law prohibiting metal mining in El Salvador at a demonstration...

Salvadorean Human Rights Attorney Congratulates Municipality that Rejected Mining Through Referendum

| Mining prohibition El Salvador
El Pais/EFE San Salvador, Feb 28 (EFE) .- El Salvador's Human Rights Ombudswoman, Raquel Caballero, congratulated today the residents of the town of Cinquera (northwest Cabañas), who last sunday rejected the implementation of mining projects through a popular consultation. "The prosecutor congrat...

The Catholic Church calls for participation in a March Against Metal Mining

| Mining prohibition El Salvador
By Armando Jacinto : TVES On February 6th, the Catholic Church presented the Legislative Assembly a legislative proposal to prohibit metal mining in El Salvador. Next Thursday, March 9th, the Catholic Church will carry out a march to demand that the representatives of the Legislative Assembly app...

Western University Professor Brings El Salvador Anti-Mining Struggle to Canadian Audience

| Mining prohibition El Salvador
By Tanya Sahni & Erica Wallis On February 28th, Amanda Grzyb,  associate professor of Information and Media Studies at Canada’s Western University gave a talk as part of an ongoing public interest lecture series, bringing the anti-mining struggle of El Salvador to the Canadian north...

Another Town in El Salvador Votes No to Mining

| Mining prohibition El Salvador
By Aruna Dutt : IPS News Cabañas, El Salvador, Mar 1 2017 (IPS) - The citizens of Cinquera municipality in Cabañas delivered a resounding vote against mining, on Sunday February 26th, when 98 percent of residents voted in favour of becoming El Salvador’s fifth “territory free ...

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