November 23, 2011 On November 21st, Milwaukee Public Radio Station WUWM invited Matt Hrodey, a journalist with Milwaukee Magazine, and John Machulak, the lawyer for the mining company Commerce Group, to an on air interview about the Commerce Group’s actions in El Salvador and its suit for $100 million against the Salvadoran government. […]
Since July of 2009 there has been a wave of violence and conflict in the communities opposing mining in the department of Cabañas. To date there have been three anti-mining activists murdered, one who was eight months pregnant at the time. We denounce the continued violence and threats towards anti-mining activists and community leaders in […]
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 […]