PUBLIC STATEMENT AGAINST THE PROJECTS THAT THREATEN HUMAN LIFE AND OUR ENVIRONMENT The Association of Communities for the Development of Chalatenango, CCR, and the below signed institutions, manifest our rejection and total opposition to the projects of mineral exploitation and all projects that put our lives and our natural resources in danger. The projects […]
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San Salvador–Busloads of people surrounded the Salvador del Mundo monument in front of the Canadian Embassy in San Salvador today to protest the Canadian Government’s role Central American mining, and specifically in the 29 mining projects currently active in El Salvador.The event was the culmination of the Central American Alliance against Metallic Mining conference held […]
April 25, 2007 By Sebastian Darío Cabañas – More than one thousand people from the departments of Chalatenango, Cabañas, and Cuscaltán, flooded the properties of the Canadian Pacific Rim Mining company yesterday in protest of mining operations in their communities. From Chalatenango alone truckloads of more than eight hundred people of the Association of […]
History The Association of Communities for the Development of Chalatenango-CCR was founded in June of 1987 during the armed conflict in El Salvador, as an answer to the need to repopulate the communities of the North-eastern part of Chalatenango that had been destroyed by the armed conflict. Thanks to the work of the CCR the […]