{"id":1439745,"date":"2024-01-11T21:38:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T21:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=fd041dbd3ff3ebae100eaa9b9fad06cc"},"modified":"2024-01-11T21:38:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T21:38:39","slug":"champions-of-el-salvadors-historic-mining-ban-face-legal-persecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/01\/11\/champions-of-el-salvadors-historic-mining-ban-face-legal-persecution\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions of El Salvador\u2019s Historic Mining Ban Face Legal Persecution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El Salvador made history in 2017 when lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to ban mining for gold and other metals after coming under intense pressure from international mining interests. Mining requires large amounts of water that is often left contaminated with toxic chemicals, and faced with an extremely limited supply of clean water, farmers and environmentalists alike cheered when El Salvador...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/champions-of-el-salvadors-historic-mining-ban-face-legal-persecution\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/champions-of-el-salvadors-historic-mining-ban-face-legal-persecution\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international coalition is demanding dubious charges against Water Defenders known as the \u201cSanta Marta 5\u201d be dropped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1786,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1014,635,38506,4,72576,56455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1786"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439745"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1439841,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439745\/revisions\/1439841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}