...Paredones Amarillos [is] a planned open-pit gold mine in Mexico's Sierra la Laguna Biosphere. As a result of AIDA's work on this case, the Mexican Environmental Authority...has stopped the project for the time being. This is excellent and very encouraging news because a mine built in this area would severely threaten the many towns that draw drinking water from the reserve...There has been a positive development in Colombia too...The Constitutional Court of Colombia ruling on the [Muriel Mining project] lawsuit has now temporarily halted the project, setting an important precedent on the right of indigenous and tribal communities to free, prior and informed consent under international law....AIDA extends congratulations to the new President of Costa Rica for declaring a moratorium on open-pit and cyanide leach mining.