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1. Criminalization increases against environmental defenders and social movements of the Central American region: (Regional News); ACAFREMIN Social and environmental movements in the defense of human rights, groups of environmental women, indigenous peoples among other expressions organized mainly from the Central American region ...; Created on 26 December 2019
2. Environmentalists Denounce that Central American governments favor mining companies and criminalize activists: (Regional News); Marvin Diaz - Gato Encerrado The criminalization of environmentalists and land defenders was the thematic focus of the fifth meeting of the Central American Alliance Against Mining (ACAFREMIN) in El Salvador. ...; Created on 26 December 2019
3. Mining Grabs Up Land, Deals Blow to Agriculture in Central America: (Background and reports ); ... has been spreading its tentacles throughout Central America and dealing a blow to the region’s agriculture and natural ecosystems, according to affected villagers, activists and a new report on the problem. ...; Created on 07 May 2019
4. Central American antimining activists gather in El Salvador to discuss joint strategies for action: (Media Releases); ... movements, environmentalists and human rights defenders gathered in El Salvador to participate in the IV Regional Meeting of the Central American Alliance against Mining -ACAFREMIN. The meeting aimed ...; Created on 05 May 2019
5. Central Americans Demand to be Consulted About Mining Projects: (Regional News); ... mining operations, due to the social and environmental damage they say has been caused since they began in 2007. Conflicts like this have broken out in other areas of Guatemala and in other Central American ...; Created on 09 May 2018
6. Can Victory Over Irresponsible Mining in Central America Spur a Win in the Philippines?: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); John Cavanagh, Robin Broad : RAPPLER OceanaGold was stunningly defeated in El Salvador last March. Can it be defeated in the Philippines by 2019? In March 2017, the small nation of El Salvador took ...; Created on 01 February 2018
7. Metals mining and Sustainable Development in Central America: An Assessment of benefits and costs: (General mining reports ); Oxfam This assessment conducted by Oxfam discusses the social, environmental and economic costs of metals mining in Central America. The prices of metals are very unstable and mining practices produce ...; Created on 23 April 2016
8. Myth and Realities of Mining Central America: (General mining reports ); Caritas El Salvador This article discusses four myths that are told by the mining industry in order to justify their activities in Central America. First, that the current technologies used in mining ...; Created on 23 April 2016
9. The Economics of Climate Change in Central America: Summary 2009: (General Environment Backrounders); UKaid 2009 The evidence is clear that greenhouse gases from anthropogenic activities are causing dramatic changes in the global climate. Central America is very vulnerable to these changes because of ...; Created on 23 April 2016
10. STATEMENT ON THE INCURSION OF THE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES IN CENTRAL AMERICA: (Media Releases); ... of the Central American territory, as such we express to the national and international public opinion. Extractive industries are transnational corporations working in collusion with governments and ...; Created on 18 December 2013
11. Central American anti-mining activists form coalition in Nicaragua: (2013 North America Tour); ... mining met today in Managua to form a coalition to unify efforts against such projects. "It's a need to articulate our struggles, because mining provides a worrying trend for Central America, in some ...; Created on 08 December 2013
12. Mining multinationals exploit Central America: (Water no Gold); By: Patrick Weiniger Patrick Weiniger First published in: http://redflag.org.au/article/mining-multinationals-exploit-central-america El Salvadoran anti-mining campaigner Vidalina Morales recently ...; Created on 03 December 2013
13. Central American community groups work together on mining issues: (March 2013 North American Tour); ... experience is the one to which people in Central America who are concerned about mining always point. Honduras, governed since a 2009 military coup by business-oriented elites, is creating special development ...; Created on 18 March 2013
14. The Cerro Blanco mine and the right to consultation: (Cerro Blanco); ... solid and liquid waste will contaminate shared watersheds, worsen current water scarcity, and increase environmental vulnerability in Central America, says Jose Mario Lopez, of the Central American Alliance ...; Created on 22 September 2022
15. PRESS RELEASE: The municipal consultation on Cerro Blanco mine is valid and legitimate: (Cerro Blanco); ... in El Salvador (Mesa Nacional Frente a la Minería Metálica en El Salvador, MNFM), the Ecofeminist Movement of El Salvador (Movimiento Ecofeminista de El Salvador, AMAES), the Central American Alliance ...; Created on 21 September 2022
16. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... Alliance against the Privatization of Water, the Roundtable of Churches in El Salvador and the Central American University state the following: The Law continues to harm the rural and urban Community ...; Created on 23 December 2021
17. Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... Mines Directorate; Public Works; Foreign Relations and Finance; as well as the Central Reserve Bank, Some municipalities, FOVIAL; and with some institutions in the private sector and academia. According ...; Created on 16 December 2021
18. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the door to renewed debate on metallic mining in El Salvador and threatens the guarantee of rights achieved with the ban of this industry in 2017. The central issue in the debate on metallic mining in ...; Created on 14 December 2021
19. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People: (Mining and Human Rights); ... such as the Central America–Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR), which have been imposed on Guatemalans. This framework favors the development of large-scale mining and energy projects that ...; Created on 07 June 2021
20. Pan American Silver Pressured to Shut Down Community Interference in Guatemala: (Mining and Human Rights); ... nearly 4,000 people are calling on the Vancouver-based company to halt all community activities in the Central American country. In mid-April, activists delivered a petition to Pan American Silver urging ...; Created on 12 May 2021

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