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5 reasons to oppose OceanaGold’s lawsuit against El Salvador

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
Statement from the Canadian Labour Congress - CLC on the Pacific Rim/OceanaGold law suit against El Salvador.  Friday, June 26, 2015 Given our shared struggle for human rights and corporate accountability, the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) supports the position of the El Salvadoran govern...

CAFTA-DR Mostly constitutional: Constitutional chamber Rules in El Salvador

| FTAs & ISDS
Yolanda Magaña - Diario el Mundo Most arguments presented by applicants against CAFTA on national sovereignty and social justice were not accepted by the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court. Nine years after the first challenge was launched, the Free Trade Agreement between the US,...

Amid TPP Fight, El Salvador Mining Case Shows Danger of Corporate Tribunals

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
Deirdre Fulton - Common Dreams A Salvadoran delegation is in Canada this week to warn of how investor provisions threaten democracy, public health, and environment In a case illustrating the dangers of corporate-friendly provisions buried in trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a sec...

Save Our Water, End Investor Rights

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
Maude Barlow and Meera Karunananthan - Huffington Post As the world looks for innovative solutions to solve the rapidly worsening water crisis, two Salvadoran experts are touring Canada this week to promote a simple strategy that could save the public billions of dollars. Yanira Cortez, Deputy ...

Salvadorans Warn Canadians About World Bank's Kangaroo Court

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
 Rene Guerra - teleSUR The company’s proposed gold mine would have used thousands of tons of cyanide and hundreds of thousand liters of water per day In anticipation of an imminent ruling from the World Bank’s little known investor-state arbitration tribunal that could force El Salvador...

Trade Deals Are Giving Corporations the Power to Intimidate Tiny Countries

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
Sandra Cuffe: New Republic Alejandro Guevara hasn’t slept. There was a death in La Maraña, and Guevara, the vice president of the community environmental association, spent the night at the wake. Still, he doesn’t skip a beat as he describes recent violence in his small Salvadoran village, runni...

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