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Author:

Broad, Robin, author.

Title:

The water defenders : how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed / Robin Broad and John Cavanagh.

Publisher:

Beacon Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

211 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Pacific Rim Mining Corporation.
OceanaGold.
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes.
Gold mines and mining--Political aspects--El Salvador.
Gold mines and mining--Environmental aspects--El Salvador.
Water--Political aspects--Political aspects--El Salvador.
Environmentalism--El Salvador--History--21st century.

Other Authors:

Cavanagh, John, 1955- author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

White men in suits (2002-2004) -- A new pact with the devil (2005) -- State of siege (2006-2008) -- Local terror, global extortion (2009) -- With a fat cat and Sun Tzu, the resistance goes global (2010-2015) -- Judgment day at the kangaroo court : "El Salvador always loses" (2016) -- Decision time : water for life, or water for gold? (2017) -- Epilogue: The vote heard round the world ... but who killed Marcelo?

Summary:

"A narrative account of how El Salvador's water protectors successfully fought off an international corporation and won an unlikely battle against the World Bank"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0807029025
9780807029022

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1162788212

LCCN:

2020030882

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)