Jessica Corbett is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.
More than 250 organizations from 29 countries came together Friday to pressure the Salvadoran government to drop the charges against and release five water defenders who were instrumental in achieving a 2017 legislative ban on metal mining in El Salvador.
Cavanagh, who co-authored with Robin Broad The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed, stressed that Bukele 'is desperate for revenues' because he 'has so mismanaged El Salvador's finances.' 'So for Bukele's government, why not arrest key water defenders if you are exploring overturning the mining ban for the revenues that gold mining brings?' he said. 'This is the great fear of water defenders in El Salvador.
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