Sebastian Rosemont is a fellow McGill graduate and a contributor to Foreign Policy In Focus.
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How Local, Grassroots Organizing Drove El Salvador’s Mining Ban
Amid a natural gas boom, could U.S. activists ever dream of a national ban on fracking? If it seems impossible, they should look to the south for inspiration. On March 29, the small Central American nation of El Salvador passed a total ban on metal mining.
June 22, 2017
