For immediate release Contact: Alexis Stoumbelis (202) 521-2510 ext. 205 Washington, DC: On June 1, a tribunal at the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) housed at the World Bank, granted jurisdiction to Canadian mining company, Pacific Rim, to continue with its attack on the people of El Salvador. ...

Reposted with permission of the author -  Jan Morrill, Coordinator of the International Allies Against Metallic Mining in El Salvador coalition On April 25th the civil society organizations and communities that make up the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining (the Mesa in Spanish) held a protest in front of the Attorney ...

President Mauricio Funes announced that the country will begin a second stage of projects financed by the Millenium Challenge Corporation (MCC) in November 2012. The MCC, a public-private development agency, was created by the US Congress in 2004 to provide grants to poor countries as incentives for political change. It ...

On December 15, CISPES led the chants at a spirited rally in front of the World Bank in Washington, DC to protest Pacific Rim Mining 's outrageous lawsuit against the government of El Salvador. The group delivered a letter addressed to World Bank President Robert Zoellick and members of the tribunal ...

Pacific Rim is suing El Salvador for up to hundreds of millions of dollars under the U.S.-Central America Free Trade Agreement for not approving a mining license. Since Canada isn't part of this agreement, Pacific Rim opened a subsidiary in Reno, Nevada. SIGN-ON to this letter: Please send the name or your ...

Although the country’s Legislative and Municipal elections are right around the corner in March 2012, El Salvador's right-wing political parties are thinking ahead to the next presidential elections and how to take back the Executive branch from the leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), which carried the country’s first ...

By Robin Broad and John Cavanagh· Originally published in The Nation The story of a community's effort to ban gold mining in El Salvador involves environmental martyrs, powerful economic interests, and a DC-based tribunal that can trump democracy. Thirty years ago, several thousand civilians in the northern Salvadoran community of Santa Marta ...

For over 30 years the organizations Sister Cities, the SHARE Foundation, and the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, CISPES, have supported the social movement in El Salvador. We are here today in solidarity with the Salvadoran people, demanding that the Attorney General, Romeo Barahona, end impunity ...

Call on the Attorney General and the Minister of Security to Begin an Investigation Immediately! (check out the Mesa press release here and aqui en Español ) With heavy hearts, we report that Juan Francisco Durán Ayala, anti-mining activist and university student, has been murdered (background information below). Jointhe Environmental Committee of ...

Juan Francisco Durán Ayala, of the Cabañas Environmental Committee (CAC), was killed on June 4th and his body wasn't identified until 10 days after his disappearance.  He is the fourth environmental activist killed in Cabañas.  The last time he was seen by fellow environmental activists was on June 2nd, distributing ...