More Death Threats in Salvador: Journalists Take Cover
It’s been a few rough weeks for environmentalists in El Salvador. They’ve been fighting tooth and nail the gold mine run by Pacific Rim Mining Corp in the Department of Cabañas. Pacific Rim is a Canadian owned mine — if you’ve been following this blog, do you see a pattern here? In December, two prominent environmentalists were assassinated 80′s style — like Dora Alicia Sorto Recinos who was eight months pregnant and carrying her 2 year-old when she was gun down on December 26th. Six days prior, Ramiro Rivera Gómez was assassinated.
Now, according to Journalists without Borders, the death squads are going after journalists…again. It started in July when three journalists from Radio Victoria received death threats. New threats came in after Mr. Rivera was killed on December 2oth stating the next to go could be, “a presenter, a reporter or anyone else working for this damned radio station.”
Here’s a YouTube video posted just after the July threats.
