Democracy Now! - Anti-Mining Activists Killed in El Salvador

Anti-Mining Activists Killed in El Salvador

Interview with Alexis Stoumbelis, executive director of CISPES, the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salavador.

For the second time in a week, a prominent anti-mining activist has been assassinated in El Salvador. On Saturday, thirty-two-year-old Dora “Alicia” Recinos Sorto was shot dead near her home. One of her children was also injured in the shooting. Sorto was an active member of the Cabañas Environment Committee, which has campaigned against the reopening of a gold mine owned by the Vancouver-based Pacific Rim Mining Company. [includes rush transcript]

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