"We are fighting so that our kids won’t ever have to know the pain of what we lived through and so that such violence is never repeated again." – Don Virgilio, El Jute, Chiquimula, Guatemala […]
The WTO negotiations have turned into a fight by developed countries to open markets in developing countries to favor their big companies.
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Many argue that El Salvador has come a long way towards trying to repair its disabled past by declaring itself mine-free in 1994, implementing the 2001 National Disability Rights law and ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2007. And yet, El Salvador has only made nominal progress in implementing disability legislation and awareness. […]
There is a huge distance geographically between where the corporate, financial and investor decisions are taken to initiate and extend mining around the world, and the places – like San Miguel Ixtahuacan – where most of the harms and destruction caused by this type of mining are experienced. There is an even greater distance culturally, ethically and spiritually between the winners and losers in this global business enterprise. […]
Source: Venezuela Analysis The Venezuelan-owned Oil Company Citgo, together with the organization Citizen’s Energy, will provide about 460,000 energy efficient light bulbs to low-income households throughout the U.S., according to Citgo’s CEO Alejandro Granado. The […]
On June 25, British mining company Alexander Gold announced their withdrawal from a $40 million mining project in the province of Salta, Argentina. The company stated that growing social and political uncertainty led to their decision to halt the León copper mining project, located in the department of Metán.
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After almost a year of arduous work, Oxfam America will be presenting in Guatemala the photo-publication titled Metal Mining in Central America: Pain and Resistance. The negative impact produced by metal mining at industrial levels in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua, as well as the many types of local resistance which have sprouted in the region, are documented visually and supported by investigative text throughout the publications’ 72 full-color pages.
We of the space called Oaxacan Voices Constructing Autonomy and Freedom (VOCAL) are writing to denounce the serious climate of harassment, criminalization, and persecution that the Ulises Ruiz Ortiz government and the local news media […]
In Uruguay, as in all other countries in the region, the expansion of single-crop agriculture (monoculture) combined with the powerful presence of agri-multinationals, has led to the creation of new power blocks. This in turn creates a policy environment where important decisions are made to facilitate these groups. […]
Fuente: Programa de las Américas Como sucede en todos los países de la región, la expansión de los monocultivos y la fuerte presencia de empresas multinacionales está creando las condiciones para la formación de nuevos […]
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