The newspaper quoted Luis Gonzalez, from the Salvadoran Environmental Unit (UNES), which is part of the environmental march, that there are various demands in the context of the environmental crisis that El Salvador is going through.
“We are talking about the issue of water, climate change, risk management, food security and sovereignty, not breaking the law banning mining, not criminalizing defenders and highlighting the environmental crisis we are going through,” Gonzalez added.
With a celebration of the four elements, as the executor specified, the indigenous peoples started the activities before the environmental march, pointing out the importance of protecting Mother Earth, which provides food and water for humanity.
The environmental march has been formed into a platform of various environmental, social, human rights, indigenous peoples and historic churches organizations, which accompanies communities in their demands for the environment and justice throughout the national territory.
“The environment law, the irrigation and drainage law, the forest law, the protected areas law, which are a legal framework, but they are not adhered to in the face of urban projects, new dams, which are huge projects affecting ecosystems and lands,” the activist denounced.
He pointed out that we have raised a series of demands to the Presidency Council to resume the issues of this country, which we have been following up since last year.
We asked for follow-up meetings to find out about the response to our requests, but they were not answered, so what we see is the lack of interest in environmental issues, because the priority of this government is security, foreign investment and other issues on the government’s agenda, he repeated.
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