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A Cafta provision means a mining corporation can sue El Salvador for its gold. Obama can stop this from happening again Source: guardian.co.uk By Kevin Gallagher As a senator, Barack Obama voted against the Central American Free Trade Agreement (Cafta), because it did “little to address enforcement of basic environmental standards in the Central American countries.” A conflict over gold mining in El Salvador reveals that Cafta and Manuel Pérez Rocha Institute for Policy Studies Five Salvadoran social activists traveled to Washington, DC in October to receive the Institute for Policy Studies’ prestigious international Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights award, in an emotional celebration. At the same event, Domestic Workers United in New York, was recognized and awarded at a national level. These Salvadorans are members of the renowned National Roundtable on Mining Readers and Friends: Join our Serious Debate for Real Change! Read the commentaries and join in the forum. We begin with commentaries by: Sarah Anderson (Institute for Policy Studies); Benjamin A. Gilman (former US Congressman); Christian Leathley (Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP, and author); Edgardo Mira (CEICOM, El Salvador); Jeffrey Pryce (Steptoe & Johnson, LLP); Edward B. Scott (Chevron); Jim Shultz (The Democracy Center); and William Source: Foreign Policy In Focus By Michael Busch As El Salvador transitions from decades of conservative rule to the administration of leftist President Mauricio Funes, the country faces an international showdown triggered by a restrictive free-trade agreement between the United States and Central America. Canada’s Pacific Rim Mining Corporation is suing the government for its refusal to allow it to mine gold in El Salvador’s rural north. Posted 25-June-2009 at Law.com By Luke Eric Peterson In September 2007, executives at CMS Gas Transmission Co. had good reason to believe that the company would soon be getting a sizable check in the mail. The Michigan energy firm had been the first of dozens of foreign multinationals to file damages claims against the government |
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