By Whitney Eulich, Staff writer
Published in: http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2013/0910/El-Salvador-buried-treasure-or-fool-s-gold
San Isidro, El Salvador. Walking through a sea of ...
... and shrimp. Hundreds of people were displaced, including 400 families who lived in Barangay Hinapulan, a village that was buried in 6 feet of muddy water.
Fisherman Wilson Manuba, who lived near the ...
... many compañeros and compañeras lost their lives, their bones are buried there, everything is significant as a community, and it was ludicrous to rebuild a town when we had already done it with so much ...
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What they wanted was to extract the rich veins of gold buried near the Lempa River, the water source for more than half of El Salvador’s 6.2 million people. Instead, local farmers and others came together ...
... of corporate-friendly provisions buried in trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a secret tribunal is on the brink of issuing a ruling any day that that could force the Central American country ...
P. Cabezas
Lack of protections and reparations for those affected by human rights violations in mining affected communities is regretful states the Human Rights Ombudsman of El Salvador.
Several ...
... nation in Central America, El Salvador is rich in minerals like gold and silver. For decades, the government granted numerous permits to foreign companies to explore for buried precious metals. But beginning ...
By Robin Oisín Llewellyn
First published in http://mondediplo.com/blogs/el-salvador-violence-and-impunity
The bullets buried into the walls of the room within a foot of their intended victim, in El ...
... are seeking to extract gold and other precious minerals buried under the northern mountains which provide the main source of clean water, fresh air and local agricultural production for the country.
Mining ...
... for gold and other precious minerals buried under the northern mountains which provide the main source of clean water, fresh air and local agricultural production for the country.
As gold mining ...
... buried under its northern mountains which provide the main source of clean water, fresh air and local agricultural production for the country. The National Roundtable on Metallic Mining in El Salvador ...
... development. Since the early 2000 as many as 10 transnational mining corporations are seeking to extract gold and other precious minerals buried under its northern mountains which provide the main source ...
... shows why this definition of progress is wrong.
El Salvador is poor by almost any economic measure, be it per capita gross domestic product or per capita income. But a rich vein of gold lies buried ...
One Year Anniversary of Juan Francisco's Murder
One year ago the body of a student environmentalist, Juan Francisco Duran, was found buried in a common grave. When his body was found, Juan Francisco, ...
... the northern department of Cabanas) are fighting US and Canadian mining companies eager to extract the rich veins of gold buried near the Lempa River, the water source for more than half of El Salvador’s ...