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1. Mining prohibition El Salvador
(Category)
Created on 09 July 2013
2. Social Organizations demand compliance with the Prohibition of Metal Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
Gloria Silvia Orellana - Co Latino "Two years after the Law on the Prohibition of Metal Mining was passed, its application is yet to be implemented," expressed Rodolfo Calles from CRIPDES / ACAFREMIN. ...
Created on 26 December 2019
3. The dilemma of artisanal miners after the mining prohibition in El Salvador
(Commerce Group)
... left, artisanal miners began their operations working in small groups (called panas) that average 10 to 20 members per operation without meeting any legal requirements established in the pre prohibition ...
Created on 07 May 2018
4. Looming threats to the mining prohibition in El Salvador
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... be overshadowed by a current electoral campaign that threatens to reverse the legislative balance of power in favor of the prohibition in the short term, and the executive government´s  in the mid-term. ...
Created on 08 February 2018
5. OceanaGold announces it will stay in El Salvador despite prohibition
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... a law prohibiting mining exploration and exploitation, it makes no sense to maintain a company like Minerales Torogoz, OceanaGold's subsidiary in El Salvador, whose sole mandate is gold exploitation.” said ...
Created on 27 July 2017
6. Political parties give assurances that they will support the prohibition of Metal Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
Beatriz Calderón / ACAN-EFE A march led by archbishop Jose Luis Escobar Alas arrived at the Legislature demand the prohibition of metal mining.   A group of Salvadorans marched today to demand that ...
Created on 09 March 2017
7. Social Movements Demand Blunt Action to Prohibit Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... Radio Programs of El Salvador (ARPAS) and the Central American University "José Simeón Cañas" (UCA) reiterated their commitment to continue to promote pertinent actions that lead to a law that prohibits ...
Created on 15 February 2017
8. IUDOP: 77% of the Salvadorean population asks for metal mining to be prohibited
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... Cañas (UCA), which states that 77% of population believe that the Salvadoran State should permanently prohibit mining in El Salvador. Download survey (in Spanish) here The survey "Opinions and ...
Created on 17 July 2015
9. July 22, 2013 Global Day of Action Against Open Pit Mining: The National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining reiterates demand for legislation prohibiting metal mining in El Salvador
(Media Releases)
... race for industrial and technological development. Metal mining in El Salvador should be prohibited because it is an expression of an unjust and violent model of development that is affecting our region. ...
Created on 22 July 2013
10. International Week of Action Free the Santa Marta 5
(Free the Santa Marta 5)
... anniversary of the historic mining prohibition, approved unanimously by the Legislative Assembly in 2017, there are signs that the government of President Nayib Bukele is creating conditions to overturn ...
Created on 08 April 2023
11. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... prohibition is facing new threats. On January 11, the Salvadoran government ordered the arrest of five prominent anti-mining activists and water defenders: Miguel Ángel Gámez, Alejandro Laínez García, ...
Created on 06 April 2023
12. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... Bukele has shown no interest in implementing pending aspects of the mining prohibitions of 2017, like environmental remediation and reparation for the victims of the mining conflicts." "On the contrary," ...
Created on 20 January 2023
13. Public statement of the Local Governments of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, members of the Lempa River Trinational Border Association, regarding the “Cerro Blanco” mining project, developed by the ...
(Cerro Blanco)
... from the rest of the removed material, as such its use in mining has been prohibited in many countries such as the United States, Turkey, the Czech Republic, Argentina, among others. 12. That although ...
Created on 12 June 2022
14. Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining in El Salvador
(Media Releases)
... convinced that the country is not prepared for the repeal of the Law of Prohibition of Metallic Mining. It is clear that the ecological conditions why metallic mining was banned have not been overcome ...
Created on 16 December 2021
15. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
*ANDRES MCKINLEY - El Faro On March 29, 2017, the Salvadoran population celebrated with joy, hope and pride the approval of a law prohibiting metallic mining in all of its forms at the national level. ...
Created on 14 December 2021
16. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
...  Despite of the success of the campaign and the fact that the mining prohibition has been in force for the last four years, La Mesa affirms that there has been no commitment on the part of the Salvadoran ...
Created on 29 June 2021
17. Green group supports ban on open-pit mining, protection of 'no mining zones
(OceanaGold Philippines)
... by lawmakers from the Makabayan bloc. “Local 'no mining zones' and a legislated prohibition of the destructive open pit method will allow us to conserve our mineral resources until such time a genuine ...
Created on 27 May 2021
18. Community and environmental concerns not “pertinent” to Pan American Silver’s business
(Mining and Human Rights)
... ban by prohibiting all large-scale metalliferous mining activity at every stage including prospection and exploration, not only exploitation. However, under increasing pressure from industry, the Chubut ...
Created on 17 May 2021
19. What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... to defeat a lawsuit by OceanaGold, a multinational firm that argued the Salvadoran government did not have the right to prohibit mining. How Salvadorans achieved such major wins against enormous odds ...
Created on 05 April 2021
20. The trial for Guapinol water defender Jeremías Martínez begins today in Tegucigalpa, Honduras
(Mining and Human Rights)
... Honduran Congress cut 217 hectares from the core zone of the park from which construction was prohibited. On January 28, 2014, the first licence was granted to Emco Mining for their planned open-pit iron ...
Created on 22 February 2021
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