“Canadian Mining Companies Banned in Three Salvadorian Municipalities”, 11 May 2015 

…Nueva Trinidad became the third municipality in El Salvador to officialy declare itself a "territory free of mining" through a historic popular community consultation. Canadian mining companies have had a brutal presence in El Salvador…The new strategy is a way to bring the current mining conflict against OceanaGold Mining Corporation (formerly Pacific Rim Mining Corporation) away from judicial courts and back to the grassroots communities…in response to a law suit that could force El Salvador to pay OceanaGold $301 million... When Canadian mining companies first arrived in the territory of Chalatenango, the company didn't realize the extent of the social organization…