mining

August 18, 2017
Noah Harley

A first-time documentarian reflects on the politics of producing Salero, a documentary on mining in the salt flats of Bolivia.

May 24, 2017
Sandra Cuffe

Rural communities and environmental activists in Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador unite to create a new front of resistance against mining projects across the region.

April 12, 2017
Michael L. Dougherty

El Salvador has become the first country in the world to categorically prohibit metal mining, after over a decade of struggle against it.

January 18, 2017
Helen Hazelwood Isaac

Manuel Pérez Rocha gives an update on the recent World Bank investor dispute settlement in favor of El Salvador, which dismissed Canadian gold mining company Pacific Rim's $250 million USD case against the El Salvadoran government.

August 31, 2016
Emma Banks

Incorporating communities displaced by natural resource extraction in Colombia’s post-conflict agenda

August 31, 2016
Rogelio Ustate Arrogoces

El activista y líder afrocolombiano indígena, Rogelio Ustate Arrogoces, exige que la sociedad y el estado colombiano reconozcan como tragedia humanitaria el desplazamiento forzado causado por la minería.

May 6, 2016
Jeb Sprague-Silgado

The two leading candidates in the upcoming Dominican Republic presidential election differ little when it comes to economic policy and the targeting of migrant and migrant-descendant communities.

April 25, 2016
Ellie Happel

The destructive impact of metal mining in the Dominican Republic has lessons for neighboring Haiti, where activists are seeking a moratorium on all mining projects. 

March 9, 2016
Fabiana Li

How local resistance halted construction of a destructive mining project on the Chilean border

November 9, 2015
Kari Lydersen and Adriana Cardona-Maguigad

This article is the first in a two-part investigative series on the social, economic, and ecological impacts of gold mining in Colombia.

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