... are already 31 votes in order to comply with this demand from the population, social organizations, and the Catholic Church,” said FMLN legislator Guillermo Mata during the presentation of an official ...
Environmental movement presented a set of proposals to the FMLN candidate asking for greater commitment on the issues.
Cristian Melendez, LA PRENSA GRAFICA
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... a contest of right versus left than right versus wrong—an idea that’s also central to the Reverend William J. Barber II and the Poor People’s Campaign in this country. Yes, the left-wing FMLN party—especially ...
... remaining state industries and public resources.
FMLN legislators succeeded in exempting essential institutions – like education, health, the penal system, and water – from the final version of the law. ...
... closures of the abandoned mines and remediation measures for environmental damage, remain absent. The government of the FMLN (Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front) had two years to enact these measures ...
... reject the accusations from parties and media outlets at the service of the oligarchy, that we are terrorists, FMLN-linked groups that are launching a smoke screen in the face of government corruption. ...
... the privatization of national assets such as telecommunications, banking, pensions and sugar mills, among others.
Environmental organizations got some reprieve when the left leaning FMLN was ...
... citizens among its ranks. In 2007, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of El Salvador asked the government to prohibit mining. The leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) party, which was ...
... the mining prohibition may soon change as the main priorities of the antimining movement. After nine years in power, the FMLN, the party that has mildly supported a progressive environmental agenda, has ...
... Mining Metallic and a member of the Departmental Board of the FMLN.
Ramiro Rivera, community leader, farmer by profession and father of two children, was later killed by several people who ambushed him ...
... the Foundation for the Development of El Salvador FUSADES .
The March 2014 legislative elections changed the political balance of power at the legislature, the left leaning FMLN, which supported the bill ...
... and play an important role in the community. About half of the population strongly supports the left-wing FMLN while the other half flocks behind the right-wing ARENA party. In addition, many residents ...
... gazette.
Today’s a historic day, thanks to all the struggle over the years for a ban on metallic mining,” FMLN legislator Guillermo Mata said during the discussion in the legislative assembly Wednesday, ...
... Salvador Sánchez Cerén’s desk who has said he will sign it.
Representative Ana Marina Alvarenga, from the left-wing FMLN party, said that the vote was a “popular victory in which our great little country ...
... Commission deliberated over the bill. It was later reported by FMLN Representative Guillermo Mata, President of the Environment and Climate Change Commission, that the busloads of people brought by the ...
... also received by René Portillo Cuadra, from ARENA, and Norma Guevara, from the FMLN who promised their parties' support for the initiative. Gallegos even anticipated that there would be good news regarding ...
... he also took advantage of the time to reiterate his message to the representatives to unanimously approve the above mentioned law.
Following this announcement made by the Church, the FMLN representative, ...
... terms, that in order to protect lives and the environment in El Salvador, the Legislative Assembly must prohibit all mining operations.
FMLN Representative Guillermo Mata, president of the Legislative ...
... FMLN won the presidency in 2009 — has long stalled a proposal to adopt a General Water Law aimed at protecting the right to water and regulating corporate use of the resource.
While the Arena party has ...
... San Isidro, in the northern department of Cabañas.
Later governments, led since 2009 by the leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), have maintained the policy.
"Our fear is that the ...