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New US sanctions are designed to hit Nicaragua’s poorest citizens

New US sanctions are designed to hit Nicaragua’s poorest citizens

October 31, 2022

The Biden administration has announced new sanctions which are intended to hit the poorest Nicaraguans – both in their pockets and in the public services on which they depend. This latest attack on a small Central American country is, as usual, dressed up as promoting democracy: the sanctions will “deny the Ortega-Murillo regime the resources […]

Category: Latin America, Energy and the environment | Tags: mining, US intervention, Nicaragua | 4 Responses

A year after Berta’s murder

A year after Berta’s murder

March 3, 2017

One year ago, Berta Cáceres was asleep in bed in La Esperanza, Honduras, when gunmen burst into the house and shot her. She died in the arms of Gustavo Castro, a Mexican environmental activist who was injured but pretended to be dead until the murderers had gone. Instead of being treated as a victim, Castro […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Berta Cáceres, mining, US intervention, drugs, Honduras

The Murder of Berta Cáceres

The Murder of Berta Cáceres

March 7, 2016

According to the campaign group Global Witness, 116 environmental activists were killed in 2014, a fifth more than the year before. Many of them were leaders of indigenous communities defending their land. The most dangerous place for environmental campaigners is Honduras, where 101 were reported killed between 2010 and 2014. The chief activist of the […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Berta Cáceres, mining, model cities, Honduras | 3 Responses

When mining firms sue

When mining firms sue

September 15, 2014

Last week a fracking company was refused permission to drill in the South Downs National Park. Celtique Energie is considering an appeal to Eric Pickles to overrule the decision. He might be reluctant to cause a furore in West Sussex, but would he feel the same if aggrieved companies could sue the government for lost […]

Category: Latin America, Energy and the environment | Tags: El Salvador, mining

El Dorado

El Dorado

May 20, 2014

Last June the G8 agreed a new plan called the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, which is supposed to ensure poor countries receive the full benefit of their natural resources. Canada is one of EITI’s stakeholder countries; 60 per cent of the world’s mining companies are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. One of them, Pacific […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: El Salvador, mining, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras

Many Siria Valley residents say they are still living with the health, environmental and other impacts of Goldcorp's mine in Honduras. Photo by Rachel Deutsch

Extracting the truth about mining

June 25, 2013

Plans by the G8 to make international mining operations more transparent are to be welcomed. But the agreement is limited in scope and the extractive industries still have a long way to go to clean up their act.

Category: Latin America, Energy and the environment | Tags: Honduras, Costa Rica, Guatemala, mining, El Salvador

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