
Portrait of Dora Alicia, campaigning against Golden Mine, shot dead 26th December
On 26th December 2009 member of the Cabañas Environmental Committee in El Salvador, actively opposing the re-opening of a Gold Mine in the community, Dora Alicia Recinos Sorto was shot dead. She was eight months pregnant. Her two years old son was also wounded in the attack.
Cabañas Environmental Committee is a grassroots organisation struggling against Canadian Company Pacific Rim. Peasant farmers from this northern Salvadoran province fear that mining operations planned for the region will consume 30,000 litres of water a day, drawn from the same sources that currently provide local residents with water only once a week.
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