Tag Archives: Pedro Cabezas

San Isidro Labrador Declared Free of Metallic Mining!

This is the second municipality in El Salvador to declare itself free of mining. Territorial organization to strengthen local democracy is a key strategy for anti-mining activists in the country’s unpredictable political environment. By P. Cabezas International Allies Against Metallic Mining in El Salvador   The municipality of San Isidro Labrador was declared free of […]

Pacific Rim/Oceana Gold taken to trial in Geneva for violations of human rights in El Salvador

by P. Cabezas, originally appears on www.stopesmining.com Members of the National Roundtable against Mining in El Salvador, La Mesa, announced the presentation of the Pacific Rim-OceanaGold case in this week’s Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal held in Geneva, Switzerland. The tribunal, organized as part of the International Week of Actions to Stop Corporate Impunity, “provides an opportunity to the victims of […]