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Threats and Attacks to Religious Leader in Cabañas

| Mining and Human Rights
Threats and Attacks to Religious Leader in Cabañas January 2012 A new series of threats towards environmentalists have disrupted the uneasy calm that had settled over Cabañas after almost eight months without violence or intimidation.  On Friday January 20th, around noon, Father Neftalí Ruiz, ...

New Threats and Intimidation towards a Mining Opponents in Cabañas

| Mining and Human Rights
New Threats and Intimidation towards Mining Opponents in Cabañas Another case of intimidation towards anti-mining activists in Cabañas was reported by the Environmental Committee of Cabañas. Below is a translation of their description and call to action. Complaint Monday March 5, 2012 Transla...

Political Candidates Answer to Anti-Mining Activists in San Salvador and Cabañas

| Mining and Human Rights
Political Candidates Answer to Anti-Mining Activists in San Salvador and Cabañas March 2012 Monday March 5, the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining in El Salvador (The Mesa in Spanish) together with the Ombudsman for Human Rights Office and the Association of Participatory Radios and Pr...

El Salvador: Pacific Rim Mining Co. Shares Up, Tensions Remain High in Cabañas

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
El Salvador: Pacific Rim Mining Co. Shares Up, Tensions Remain High in Cabañas Written by Jason Wallach  Friday, 18 September 2009 07:57 At the recent Pacific Rim Mining Company shareholders' meeting in Vancouver, BC, shareholders voted to extend repayment on $6.7 mil...

Fixing Free Trade Agreements: Putting People and the Planet over Corporate Profit

| FTAs & ISDS
Fixing Free Trade Agreements:   Putting People and the Planet over Corporate Profit  Today's trade rules are not designed first and foremost to protect workers, the environment or public health.  They are written by corporate lawyers and trade bureaucrats with no citizen input and very little c...

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