The Roman Catholic Church has added its voice to calls on El Salvador's present to retain the country's ban on gold mining. Archbishop José Luis Escobar Alas on Sunday made the request to ...
El Salvador's Congress has approved a law that would lift the country’s seven-year-old ban on mining for metals.
Archbishop José Luis Escobar Alas asked President Nayib Bukele not to reverse the ban, which has been in place since 2017. “It will damage this country forever,” Msgr. Escobar Alas said in a ...
Archbishop José Luis Escobar Alas asked President Nayib Bukele not to reverse the ban, which has been in place since 2017.
(AP Photo/Jose Diaz, File) SAN SALVADOR ... but Bukele called the ban “absurd” earlier this year. Archbishop José Luis Escobar Alas recently asked the president not to reverse the ban ...