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La Prohibición de la Minería: ¿Le conviene al Gran Cañón pero no a El Salvador?

| Commerce Group
La Prohibición de la Minería: ¿Le conviene al Gran Cañón pero no a El Salvador?  Por Sarah Anderson[1], 11 de enero del 2012.  Article in English Los socios comerciales de Estados Unidos deben de preocuparse de que si conducen políticas responsables para el planeta podrían ser sujetos de fuert...

Enviornmentalist Threatened, Murdered in El Salvador

| Mining and Human Rights
Environmentalists threatened, murdered in El Salvador Posted Feb. 2, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren Salvadoran environmentalists are fighting for a ban on destructive mining projects in the face of physical attacks at home, and legal attacks from abroad authorized by a U.S. trade agreement. Si...

Salvadorans in Solidarity with Panama

| Mining and Human Rights
Salvadorans in Solidarity with Panama On Friday, February 10th, as the clashes between the government of Panama and indigenous groups facing hydo-electric dams and mining projects on their territory continued, the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining in El Salvador (the Mesa) organized ...

New Threats and Attacks in Cabanas

| Mining and Human Rights
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, Priest of Salvadoran Apostolic Catholic Church (ICAS), Secretary...

Commerce Group

| Commerce Group
   Commerce Group vs. El Salvador In 2009, the Commerce Group, a failed Milwaukee-based mining corporation, filed a $100 million lawsuit against the government of El Salvador under the foreign investor “protections” contained in the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). The Company de...

Background on Mining

| Background and reports
  A Brief History of Mining in El Salvador  I. Precedents. The Mining Legacy Metallic mining was carried out in the northeastern part of El Salvador for almost 100 years (1880-1970) and in the department of Cabañas during the 1950s.  Mining activity, even though it came to represent 15%...

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