El Salvador's Congress approves ending ban on metals mining

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

El Salvador’s Congress approves ending ban on metals mining

Updated 9:53 PM EST, December 23, 2024

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s Congress approved Monday a law that would lift the country’s seven-year-old ban on mining for metals.

The law, proposed by President Nayib Bukele and passed on a 57 to 3 vote, would allow mining everywhere except nature reserves and sensitive watersheds. It’s expected to go into law with his approval.

The law bans the use of toxic mercury in gold mining, and would require private companies to enter a type of joint venture with the government to open mines.

Environmentalists and the Roman Catholic church oppose the resumption of mining, citing potential damage to ecosystems, but Bukele called the ban “absurd” earlier this year.

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[Judi Lynn]

1. This evil little dictatorhead is on his way to hollowing out El Salvador

and doing it with the long-standing support for El Salvador's racist, murderous ruling class by the U.S. Republican Party, massacres, genocide, mind-blowing barbarism for decades.

If the doomed, tormented poor indigenous and mixed ancestried people attempt to escape, count on the US Nazis to get them killed some other way.