{"id":8965,"date":"2009-07-21T09:51:16","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T16:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=8965"},"modified":"2009-07-21T09:53:56","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T16:53:56","slug":"corporation-fights-el-salvador-under-cafta-for-right-to-pollute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/07\/21\/corporation-fights-el-salvador-under-cafta-for-right-to-pollute\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporation Fights El Salvador Under CAFTA for Right to Pollute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-072109\/2009_07_21_rodriguez.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-072109\/2009_07_21_uprising.MP3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_iYTeAGz8-zM\/SfoSMazNnRI\/AAAAAAAAAxQ\/nUpCjpNT2-Q\/s320\/mining.jpg\" alt=\"mining\" \/>President Mauricio Funes of El Salvador has refused to issue a permit to a Canadian company seeking to mine gold on the grounds of environmental pollution. In response, the Pacific Rim Mining Corporation is suing the Central American nation for $100 million dollars claiming that it is in violation of CAFTA\u2019s nondiscrimination provision. The Central America Free Trade Agreement, which binds countries like El Salvador to the US\u2019s rules of free trade, is being invoked on the grounds that allowing domestic companies the privilege to pollute El Salvador puts international companies like Pacific Rim at a market disadvantage. Because of the use of cyanide-laced water to extract the precious metal from subterranean rock, gold mining results in soil and ground contamination, which, experts contend, eventually finds its way down into the drinking water of El Salvador. The National Working Group against Mining in El Salvador, or MESA, has led the fight against banning metal-mining. This popular organization has brought the issue into the consciousness of ordinary Salvadorians and has found an ally in the Catholic Church. The Church recently released a statement against mining saying that \u201cNo material advantage can be compared with the value of human life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Claudia Rodriguez, Advocacy Director of the SHARE Foundation<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>For more information visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.share-elsalvador.org\">www.share-elsalvador.org<\/a>. Read an article about the mining story here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fpif.org\/fpiftxt\/6273\">http:\/\/www.fpif.org\/fpiftxt\/6273<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Mauricio Funes of El Salvador has refused to issue a permit to a Canadian company seeking to mine gold on the grounds of environmental pollution. In response, the Pacific Rim Mining Corporation is suing the Central American nation for $100 million dollars claiming that it is in violation of CAFTA\u2019s nondiscrimination provision. The Central [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}