David Pérez-Diario Co Latino http://www.diariocolatino.com/es/20100723/nacionales/82506/?tpl=69 (Unofficial Translation) The National Roundtable Against Mining, with support from various international organizations, demanded that the Canadian Embassy in El Salvador stop favoring from Pacific Rim and other mining companies, since they only cause pollution and damage the health of the population. Since the left-wing government has said it will […]
We are looking for stories from committees about successful fund raising events and anti-mining solidarity events. We will feature these stories in our next e-bulletin and in a packet for organizing around the anti-mining fight. We want to share stories of creative, successful events and activities that will inspire others in the Sister Cities network. […]
On Wednesday, April 14 in San Salvador, representatives of community organizations, indigenous communities and environmentalists from Mexico and Central America participated in an International Forum entitled: Mining Companies in Mesoamerica “Sustainable Development or a Threat to Sovereignty?.” Out of the agreements reached at the International Forum we make the following declaration: Companies from Canada […]
Everything has to do with Pacific Rim and the company’s longing to exploit the gold found underground in the department of Cabañas. Almost from the time that the company set up in said zone, conflicts began, whose biggest opponent is the resistance of the communities to sell their land, and prevent the negative environmental impacts […]
December 2, 2009 By the Communications team of the National Roundtable against Mineral Mining On November 27 Mariano Abarca Roblero, a leader in the Mexican Network of the Affected by Mining (REMA), was assassinated. During the criminal act, Orlando Velásquez was also gravely injured. Orlando was a friend of the environmentalist that was riddled with […]
CRIPDES Position Regarding Pacific Rim Notice of Intent January 2009 Confronting the threat of the suit from the Mining Corporations (Pacific Rim) under the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement with the United States (CAFTA), the Association for the Development of El Salvador CRIPDES, states: At the end of 2001 the political parties ARENA, PCN, […]
By Sebastian Dario Last week the Canadian company Pacific Rim Mining Corp escalated their tactics for putting pressure on the Salvadoran government to administer exploitation permits for open-pit cyanide gold mining in El Salvador by filing a Notice of Intent (NOI) against the Salvadoran government under the Central American-Dominican Republic-United States Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA). […]
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 […]
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 […]