On December 26, Dora “Alicia” Sorto Recinos, an active opponent of Pacific Rim's El Dorado gold mine in El Salvador, was shot and killed as she returned home from doing her laundry. Sorto Recinos was eight months pregnant and carrying her two-year old child at the time. The child was also shot, in the foot, [...]
A new campaign of violence has emerged in El Salvador, with community activists in the struggle against a Canadian mining company suffering attacks, kidnappings, death threats, and outright murder. the Real News Network reports. Over the past month and a half, with the region's attention fixed on the coup in Honduras, a campaign of violence [...]
In the month's Underreported Struggles: 20,000 Lepchas Vow to Die for Their Community; Nicaragua Recognizes Indigenous Land Rights; Dam workers attack the Enawene Nawe; and 18 other stories about the ongoing, world-side struggle for land, rights, and life. December 29 - Indonesia Police Destroy Indigenous Village - Indonesian police forces have violently evicted 400 indigenous [...]
For months now, the community of Cutumay Camones, which resides near Santa Ana, El Salvador, has been protesting against the construction of a new landfill site that threatens to contaminate their drinking water. The landfill is positioned directly above a local aquifer, just 700 meters away from the community spring. The government doesn't care in [...]
After hearing the appeal presented by the defense team of the Suchitoto 13, activists who were arrested at the July 2 protest against water privatization in Suchitoto, El Salvador -- the judges reiterated the charge that they committed acts of terrorism, and will be tried 'accordingly.' The big issue here, is that the charge of [...]