No Dirty Gold in El Salvador! We Oppose Commerce Group’s Lawsuit Against the People of El Salvador! In response to El Salvador’s rural grassroots movement to stop destructive gold mining in the departments of Cabanas and La Union, both Pacific Rim and Commerce Group are suing the government of El Salvador for $77 million and […]
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Phase One of the Commerce Group vs. the Government of El Salvador Hearings Complete On Monday, November 15th the Milwaukee based mining company Commerce Group and San Sebastian Mines Inc squared off against the government of El Salvador in the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), a part of the World Bank. The […]
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By Manuel Pérez-Rocha Originally posted on http://www.otherwords.org Mining endangers communities everywhere with safety hazards and environmental destruction. Remember the joy shared by millions around the world as we watched as the Chilean miners were rescued one by one? Celebrating their survival made me wish that the global mining industry could find itself in the spotlight […]
Written by the Communications Team of the National Roundtable against Mineral Mining — Translated by USESSC Staff For a second time, Salvadoran environmentalists who are struggling against the Cerro Blanco mining Project have become the victims of humiliation in Guatemala. It happened on Thursday October 28th. Three representatives from the Center of Investigations into Investment […]
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For the second time in the last three months members of the Center of Investigations into Investment and Commerce (CEICOM), an active member of the National Roundtable against Mineral Mining, have been kidnapped, robbed and left at an abandoned farm while traveling in Guatemala. In both instances the anti-mining activists were traveling to events in […]
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On Sunday October 24th over 300 people gathered in Chalatenango to elect the new CCR board. As always with the CCR, the elections were an all day celebration with updates about the work the CCR has done over the last year, music from Carasque’s band Grupo Emoción, food and local celebrities, including Chalate’s representative to […]
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Sistering Successes · We brought 7 delegations from 7 committees, a total of 61 people, to El Salvador to learn and exchange ideas with their sistered communities. · We had 4 volunteers representing Sister Cities in El Salvador and one volunteer in the U.S. office · The New Jersey and San Isidro/Los Amates Sister City […]
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The State of Mining in El Salvador · According to Salvadoran Mining Law a company must obtain both an exploration and exploitation permit in order to open a mine in El Salvador. · There are currently 29 active exploration permits and 73 applications. They are for areas in the Northern region of El Salvador, which […]
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A Fact Sheet on the Situation in Honduras Honduras Since the Coup · June 28th, 2010 marked a year since a military coup was carried out against the government of President Manuel Zelaya in Honduras. The coup was launched after the Zelaya administration enacted policy steps that threatened the dominance of the right wing Honduran […]
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Sister Cities just got through with a great 11 day tour of the East Coast. Sister Cities staff were joined on the visit by German Gonzalez, who has been working with CRIPDES in the region of Suchitoto for over 12 years. We visited the committees of Binghamton, NY, Arlington and Cambridge MA, Concord New Hampshire […]