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Is the Commerce Group Case Really Over?

| Commerce Group
Is the Commerce Group Case Really Over? Versión en Español As the Salvadoran anti-mining movement and its allies across the globe anxiously await a ruling from the International Centre for Investment Settlement Disputes (ICSID) in the Pacific Rim suit, the Milwaukee-based Commerce Group case ap...

Who Decides for El Salvador: The People or Pacific Rim?

| FTAs & ISDS
  Take Action in the Pacific Rim Case Today   Who Decides for El Salvador:  The People or Pacific Rim? The defense of national sovereignty isn’t anti-development May 3, 2012 San Salvador Versión en Español   The Canadian multi-national mining corporation Pacific Rim recently circulated a...

“It wasn’t the Attorney General’s Office that harassed me, it was the DECO

| Mining prohibition El Salvador
“It wasn’t the Attorney General’s Office that harassed me, it was the DECO” Zoraya Urbina Editorials, Diario Co Latino The original in Spanish Santos Rivera, brother to Ramiro, the environmentalist murdered in 2009 in Cabañas, explained that when he gave testimony against those accused for the...

Varios Países Rechazan Mecanismos de Arreglo de Disputas entre Estados e Inversionistas

| FTAs & ISDS
Varios Países Rechazan Mecanismos de Arreglo de Disputas entre Estados e Inversionistas  Por Janet M Eaton, Phd. 12 de abril, 2012 Original in English Parece que hay una conciencia creciente que los privilegios al estilo de NAFTA para inversionistas extranjeras y su “sistema privado de arre...

Multiple Countries Rejecting Investor State Dispute Settlement

| FTAs & ISDS
Multiple Countries Rejecting Investor State Dispute Settlement By Janet M Eaton, Phd.  April 12th, 2012 There appears to be a growing awareness that NAFTA-style foreign investor privileges and their private "investor-state dispute system [ISD] ,which have been among the most controversial asp...

Lucha contra la Minería Enciende Demandas Internacionales

| Commerce Group
Lucha contra la Minería Enciende Demandas Internacionales Por ROGER BYBEE The original in English Activistas luchan contra las provisiones de los tratados de libre comercio, mientras el USW reta los objetivos de la industria A pesar de la pobreza dominante y el desempleo en su pequeño país ...

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