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Arcatao Community Consultation

| Mining prohibition El Salvador
Consultations, or municipal referendums in which the voting population asserts their preference on the issue. The first three Consultations took place in 2014 in San Jose Las Flores, San Isidro Labrador, and Nueva Trinidad in the northern department of Chalatenango, and now the fourth Consultatio...

Xenia Marroquìn: “Water is not a merchandise, it is a human right”

| Water Crisis El Salvador
By: Gloria Silvia Orellana - CoLatino / Translated by: Samy Beltaief Xenia Marroquìn, coordinator of Foro del Agua, regrets the decision of the Constitutional Commission to refuse the proposal to reform article 69 of the Constitution, which proposes to recognize food s and the access to wa...

The lawsuit that could put El Salvador in check

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
By: Alejandra Martins - BBC Mundo / Translation: Marina Bonetti and Sigrun Pallesen In an office in Washington, three arbitrators are about to decide on the lawsuit filed by the multinational mining company OceanaGold against El Salvador. According to the government of the Central Ame...

Communities Oppose Mining Project

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
By: Oscar López -CoLatino / Translated by: Marco Melloni People of different communities in the San Isidro municipality, region of Cabañas, manifested their opposition to a metal mining project in the territory. The inhabitants maintain that the proyect would contaminate the water resource...

Corporate bias at the World Bank Group

| FTAs & ISDS
The World Bank Group’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes Robin Broad - Bretton Woods Project This briefing focuses on the main venue for settlement of legal cases brought by corporations against governments: the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Invest...

Arcatao: the next municipality to hold a referendum on mining in El Salvador

| Mining prohibition El Salvador
Photos/translation: Marina Bonetti  Citizens of the communities of Cicachuite, Cerro Grande, Teosinte, Chavarria, El Sitio, Los Rivera, Los Guardado, El Portillo, Los Alas, Los Orellana, Los Merino, El Pepeto, Gualsimaca, Las Vegas, and the town itself, all belonging to the Municipality of ...

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