Yevgeniya Yatsenko has a BA in Anthropology and International Development from McGill University. She is currently working in El Salvador on the issues of alternative development.
How Local, Grassroots Organizing Drove El Salvador’s Mining Ban
Amid a natural gas boom, could U.S. activists ever dream of a national ban on fracking? If it seems impossible, they should look to the south for inspiration. On March 29, the small Central American nation of El Salvador passed a total ban on metal mining.
June 22, 2017