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Anti-mining leaders asks presidential candidates to make explicit their position on mining

| Mining prohibition El Salvador
Members of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining in Salvador demanded all presidential candidates to publicly state their parties' position on the issue of mining in the country. “Mining is one of the one of the most aggressive industries that harms biodiversity, public health and the e...

El Salvador faces "international mafias" in "frivolous" international law suits

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
Translated from: http://tinyurl.com/mhvvolz By: Elder Gomez, CoLatino News El Salvador faces an "international mafia" seeking control of the country's natural resources, through "frivolous" legal international disputes, in which this nation has spent more than $3 million, while preparing a coun...

National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining responds to OcenaGold's takeover of Pacific Rim

| Media Releases
The National Roundtable against Metal Mining issued the following response to the announcement of OceanaGold's purchase this week:  Multimillion dollar company purchases Pacific Rim mining company, will seek agreements with political parties to proceed with mining i...

PRESS RELEASE: Mesa condemns attempted murder

| Media Releases
The National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining condemns attempted murder against leader of the anti-mining movement in El Salvador. The member organizations of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining, denounce the attempted murder against Mr. Alejandro Guevara Velasco from La Maraña E...

Letter to the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador

| Mining prohibition El Salvador
Members of the Executive Committee Legislative Assemble of El Salvador Dear Members of the Legislative Assembly: The undersigned members of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining in El Salvador, return to you again exercising our right to petition enshrined in the Constitution of the R...

PRESS RELEASE: Mesa introduces new Special Law to Ban Mining in El Salvador

| Media Releases
Given the socio-environmental crisis in the country, we demand the Legislature discuss and approve the proposed Special Law to Ban Metallic Mining In 2006, we presented to the Legislative Assembly a proposed ban on metallic mining that, to date, has not being discussed by the Committee on Enviro...

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