... this employer abuse, a worker died last month inside the mine facilities. To worsen even further the already difficult situation, amid the confinement measures imposed by the Giammattei government, the ...
... mining companies suing over projects that people have managed to halt through direct action and in the courts.
This month, in Guatemala, the Peaceful Resistance “La Puya” celebrates eight years of struggle ...
... dry up. Currently, they obtain approximately 6 liters of water per second. In 2019, for the first time, the fountain dried up for 4 months due to lack of rain. The drought could come permanently, not only ...
... working for the company and, just a few months prior to his murder, plain-clothes police detained him without charge for eight days in response to outlandish accusations that Blackfire filed against him. ...
... in El Salvador. Marcelo Rivera was found in a well in an advanced state of decomposition; and later that year, Ramiro Rivera and Dora Sorto, who was 8 months pregnant, were killed by paid gunmen.
Pedro ...
... of cross-border natural assets.
The study is pending publication in the coming months.
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Translation: Giada Ferrucci
Translated from: http://acafremin.org/es/noticias-regionales/el-salvador/425-estudio-de-mineria-refleja-el-peligro-de-la-mina-cerro-blanco-2 ...
... with him during his seven months and eight days of administration. “Concretely, his biggest frustration is that the people he brought to power now trample on his work plan. They wanted to handle things ...
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In response, the Didipio community, backed by the local government, set up a barricade the following month to block access into the mine. OceanaGold claims it suspended operations in October 2019, but ...
... same month, Ocean Explorations criminally sued South Californian journalist, Carlos Ibarra, and members of the Puerto Chale Fishing Cooperative for dennouncing that company was digging exploration wells ...
... It was also a preparation for an environmental investigation mission (EIM) to be launched by CEC and Agham-Advocates of Science and Technology for the People at the end of the month.
Rights violations ...
... for an open-pit.
Months after, the spring dried out the irrigation and the mineral wastes dumped from the mine tailings have caused the palay (unhusked rice) and sweet potatoes to be infected by tungro ...