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Pedro Cabezas of the Central American Alliance on Mining said in an email to Common Dreams that "different from previous presidents, the government of Nayib ...
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On July 11th, environmental justice activists in El Salvador commemorated the 11th anniversary of the 2009 assassination of Marcelo Rivera, a community cultural activist and water defender ...
... Cabezas, representative of the Central American Alliance against Mining (ACAFREMIN) and the Association for Development in El Salvador (CRIPDES) stated: "We are remembering those who gave their lives for ...
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Pedro Cabezas, coordinator of ACAFREMIN, explained that the purpose of the event is to discuss the criminalization faced by environmental defenders and organizations, to analyze the actions of governments that facilitate mining operations, and ...
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While the role of the Honduran president, Juan Orlando Hernandez, in a narcotrafficking ring led by his brother, Tony Hernadez, slowly unfolded in a court of Manhattan, New York, a little ...
... Central American Alliance Against Mining, (ACAFREMIN), Pedro Cabezas, says that the threat of mining continues nationally and across borders. “There are risks, (over) in the economic measures the current ...
... said Pedro Cabezas of International Allies against Mining in El Salvador who organized a protest action in front of the Philippine Consulate in El Salvador.
“We reiterate our calls on the United Nation ...
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Yolanda Flores, DHUMA: more than 80% of the Peruvian territory has been concessioned to mining activity. Photo: ACAFREMINSan Salvador - Representatives of indigenous communities, social ...
* Edgardo Ayala - Contrapunto
Despite of a two year mining prohibition, the ghost of mining does not fade away for communities in El Salvador that are exposed to crossborder contamination that may cause ...
... of Nejapa receive water only 2-3 days a week.
Members of the National Alliance Against the Privatization of Water march towards the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador. Photo: P. Cabezas.
To protect ...
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Local companies tied to foreign capital drive the push to privatize water magament and services in El Salvador.
The fight for the defence of water in El Salvador and the recent conflicts ...
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Barely six weeks have passed since the newly elected, right wing dominated legislature took office, but recent frictions between security personnel of the legislature and university students ...
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A few weeks after the first anniversary of the mining ban in El Salvador environmental activists in the country are wondering how long before the ban is overturned.
The ban approved with ...
... years, according to Pedro Cabezas, who runs the mining and human rights program of CRIPDES, the largest rural organization in the country and a leader in the Salvadoran social movement. It is a story of ...
... for water will persist,” remarked Jen Moore for MiningWatch Canada.
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In March 2017, El Salvador became the first country in the world to ban metallic mining. But the huge victory of the antimining movement and the international recognition it has garnered may ...
... although this achievement also represents more challenges for the environmental movement explained Pedro Cabezas facilitator of the Central American Alliance against Mining (ACAFREMIN) and memebr of the ...
... mining and stop projects that affect the environment which represents one of the greatest achievements of its communities.
On the other hand, Pedro Cabezas, representative of the International Allies, ...
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Members of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining demanded the immediate removal of Australian/Canadian OceanaGold mining company of El Salvador after the Attorney General's Office ...