(IN ENGLISH HERE) Los representantes Mark Pocan y Jim McGovern, junto a otros 15 representantes demócratas, enviaron una carta al secretario de Estado, Antony Blinken, pidiéndole que intervenga para la liberación de los defensores de Santa Marta, arrestados en enero de este año. La carta dice lo siguiente: Estimado Secretario Blinken, Escribimos para […]
Bummed out that you missed the anti-mining delegation? Don’t worry! On this short webinar, delegates and Salvadoran partners who participated in the historic San Jose Las Flores community consultution to ban mining in the municpality will give a report about the proceedings and the impact it will have on the Salvadoran struggle against mining. […]
Dear Mr. Jim Yong Kim, We, the_______ are writing this letter out of concern for the communities of Cabañas and the people of El Salvador, who have expressed collectively and through various mediums over the past several years their resistance to mining projects in El Salvador for health and economic reasons. Nevertheless, PacificRim/OceanaGold is using […]
Taken from John Perry´s Article on May 20, 2014. Read the full article here Pacific Rim (acquired last year by OceanaGold), owns a mine in El Dorado, El Salvador. It has met massive community opposition over the past five years. This has led to intimidation and assassinations; a 2010 report by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature […]
By Lauren Carasik Originally Published on April 22, 2014 by Al Jazeera America Organization´s Investor Protection Panel Disempowers Marginalized Communities Last week more than 300 international and national civil society organizations wrote to the president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, during its biannual meeting in Washington, denouncing the bank’s involvement in the case of Pac […]
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 […]
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 […]