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Latin America -
Colombia
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Monday, 29 March 2010 18:02 |
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 Mining policy really isn't sexy stuff and researching it usually isn't a dangerous occupation, but some of Mr. Ramirez's conclusions can mean life or death - literally and figuratively. "Once they tried to kill me right here in this office," said the researcher, who has survived seven assassination attempts.
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Latin America -
Venezuela
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Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:23 |
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 The government of Venezuela under President Hugo Chávez is supporting a controversial plan to increase coal mining production in the oil producing state of Zulia. The plan may threaten the state's most important water supply, according to biologists, state water authorities and environmentalists.
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Latin America -
Peru
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Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:18 |
 The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) recently declared the petition admissible against the Peruvian State for committing human rights abuses against the residents of the mining city of La Oroya, located in Central Peru. The suit alleges that the government allowed environmental contamination caused by the emission of gases and other derivatives from activities from mining companies located in the area.
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Latin America -
Nicaragua
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Tuesday, 30 March 2010 17:52 |
 Despite abundant natural resources, Nicaragua remains the second poorest country in the Americas. Its poverty is deepening despite intensified efforts to court foreign investment and broaden the exploitation of the country's natural resources, in particular through mining. Against this backdrop, FoE Nicaragua started a two-year campaign to educate the public and fight the damage wrought by mining.
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Latin America -
Mexico
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Tuesday, 30 March 2010 17:41 |
 Since the adoption in the late-eighties of an economic development model based on free markets, regulatory change has been a constant factor of Mexican life. This change was initiated in mining by the implementing Regulations of 1990 (now replaced by more recent ones), which laid the groundwork for the full reform of a mining system which at that time was burdened by i) a taxation system which rewarded idle land and penalized production, ii) more than half of the surface covered by mining lots awarded to many inefficient and in some cases corrupt State owned companies, iii) a complex law ablaze with red tape requirements, iv) an inefficient, unmotivated, understaffed mining bureaucracy, and v) restrictions on foreign investment, and culminated in 1992 with the enactment of the current Mining Law.
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