Breaking news! El Salvadors MUSLIM president arrest anti mining activist as he's set up open up mining for CHINA!!

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On January 11, El Salvador president Nayib Bukele’s administration issued arrest warrants for six community leaders who played key roles in the historic 2017 victory against metallic mining in El Salvador, accusing them of an unrelated thirty-year-old murder.

The Salvadoran government is accusing the community activists of participating in killing a woman in August 1989, during the country’s twelve-year-long internal armed conflict. It is also accusing the six ex-guerillas with “illicit association.” The arrest warrants came just days ahead of the anniversary of the signing of the country’s peace accords, which ended the war. Human rights advocates in El Salvador say that the arrests are part of the Bukele administration’s attempts to reverse the country’s historic metallic mining ban that was declared in 2017.


Many of those arrested for the 1989 murder come from the community of Santa Marta, Victoria, in the department of Cabañas in north central El Salvador. Residents in the community, along with the local ADES organization, played a key part in the movement against mining in El Salvador. It was in their territory that the Canadian-based Pacific Rim mining company began exploring for mineral resources.

Beginning in 2004, residents began to organize against mining companies over fears of the contamination of their water sources. By 2017, the anti-mining movement forged a broad coalition with other civil society groups, including the Catholic Church, under the banner “Si a la vida, no a la mineria” or “Yes to life, no to mining.”



There is speculation that the mining sector has secretly entered into the free-trade negotiations with the Bukele administration and China, which is among the key aid providers to El Salvador and has become a major investor throughout the world through their Belt and Roads initiative.