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1. Trade Deals Are Giving Corporations the Power to Intimidate Tiny Countries: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); Sandra Cuffe: New Republic Alejandro Guevara hasn’t slept. There was a death in La Maraña, and Guevara, the vice president of the community environmental association, spent the night at the wake. Still, ...; Created on 13 May 2015
2. US Senators introduce bill to tackle corruption & rights violations in Honduras - cite Guapinol case: (Mining and Human Rights); ... violations in Honduras. The introduction comes as U.S. federal prosecutors made public that they are investigating Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández for accepting large bribes from, and giving ...; Created on 23 February 2021
3. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... agriculture model “what does that mean? Teach a family to produce with resources or materials that they have in their own plot of land, giving a sustainability approach so that they do not depend on products ...; Created on 05 January 2021
4. 2020 in Review: Latin America and Investment Arbitration: (ISDS); ... In this post, we aim at giving you a quick look back to some of our most impactful publications in 2020. A new era for investment arbitration in Mexico In 2020, Mexico gained positive attention by ...; Created on 19 December 2020
5. Honduran Land Defenders Receive the prestigious Letelier-Moffit award in Washington: (Regional News); ... developed agrarian reform laws, giving collective land to thousands of farmers organized in farming cooperatives. In 1992 the Law for Land Modernization gave way to the formation of large private monopolies ...; Created on 24 October 2019
6. Global protest launched against OceanaGold mine in the Philippines: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... tribunal in 2016, and to the eventual prohibition of large-scale mining in El Salvador in 2017. We are giving back our solidarity to the people of Nueva Vizcaya to their success of mounting a people’s ...; Created on 02 September 2019
7. Latin American Women Weaving Territories: (Media Releases); ... our governments are giving in concession large extensions of land to transnational corporations. The context of violence, stigma and criminalization to which we, women who fight from our territories ...; Created on 01 February 2018
8. El Salvador – When The Seeds Of Resistance Bloom: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... no longer giving transnational corporations recourse to international tribunals.) By 2013, Pacific Rim was in financial trouble and was bought out by Oceana Gold from Australia. By late 2016, after a ...; Created on 23 June 2017
9. A wake-up call for Trump's trade agend: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... and giving the mining firm an extended period to try to convince the government to allow it to mine. Fortunately, civil society groups in and out of El Salvador joined with key members of the Salvadoran ...; Created on 03 March 2017
10. Transnational mining company loses the battle, but the war continues.: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... El Salvador but does not show any signs of giving up the extractive business in this Central American country. "The threat has not disappeared yet, they (OceanaGold) continue their efforts to confuse people ...; Created on 05 January 2017
11. PRESS RELEASE: Permanent Alert against Metallic Mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... its activities through its subsidiary Minerales Torogoz and the El Dorado Foundation in San Isidro, Cabañas. These actions range from giving away promotional items in favor of mining, promoting excursions ...; Created on 04 January 2017
12. For grassroots organizations, the fight to protect water and local communities continues, now on a larger scale: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... put states and governments like ours against the wall, giving priority to the interests of international companies,” said Montes. After years of legal wrangling, the World Bank court awarded El Salvador' ...; Created on 10 November 2016
13. PRESS RELEASE: Mining, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Conflict: OceanaGold and the El Dorado Foundation in El Salvador: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... coerce the government into giving it a mine permit. If it would only withdraw its suit, millions of dollars in legal costs would be freed up that could be put to productive use in Cabañas and El Salvador,” ...; Created on 23 March 2016
14. El Salvador: 49 exploration permits were once approved: (Background and reports ); ... to ban on mining and one proposal for a moratorium proposed by the government Mauricio Funes. This proposal envisages giving mining permits if conditions to protect the environment are met. So far, no ...; Created on 07 January 2016
15. A blunt NO to mining in Arcatao, Chalatenango: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... we made during the election campaign for city council and now we are giving an answer to the population that has expressed through organized communities and the Consulta Steering Committee that this ...; Created on 11 November 2015
16. New Study Shows Dangers of Trade Agreements that Help Corporations Sue Govenments: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... be passed. The study shows how corporations use their 1% muscle (and threats of suits) to attempt to force governments into giving them mining licenses. If this doesn’t succeed, then they file the suits ...; Created on 25 March 2014
17. El Salvador, violence and impunity: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Alexander Pérez.” Ramiro’s brother claims that he was pressured by the prosecution while giving evidence, and threatened with imprisonment. Alejandro Guevara says those imprisoned were responsible for ...; Created on 13 February 2014
18. The Rights Clash: (Commerce Group); ... El Salvador, was giving a presentation during the international “Gold Mining and the Defense of Water in El Salvador” conference that took place in May. The country is embroiled in a battle on the subject: ...; Created on 15 July 2013
19. Meeting with Activists in Victoria: (March 2013 North American Tour); ... Thanks for giving us these precious hours together. Theresa Wolfwood of :Victoria Central America Support Committee & Director, Barnard-Boecker Centre Foundation Victoria, BC Canada www.bbcf.ca ...; Created on 17 March 2013

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