Tag Archives: Sebastián Darío

18
Dec
Defending Natural Resources, Protecting Sovereignty

Pacific Rim Threatens to Sue Under CAFTA: December 2008

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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). […]

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27
Apr
Community Development Projects, Defending Natural Resources

Communities Retake Pacific Rim Properties – March 25, 2007

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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 […]

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