“El Salvador – Police harass HRD Father Santos Neftalí Ruíz Martínez”, 9 Apr 2015

Father Neftalí is the President of the Comité Ambiental de Cabañas…an organisation which works to educate the community about the…risks of…gold mining operations…Father Santos…together with Father Carlos Castillo, was standing outside…when two members of the National Civil Police…began to interrogate them and accus[ed] him of being a former member of a gang…The El Dorado mine which the activists oppose is currently non-operational…The…Salvadoran government refused Pacific Rim's mining permits…In response, Pacific Rim opened an arbitration case against the Salvadoran government seeking millions of dollars in compensation…Canadian-Australian firm OceanaGold acquired Pacific Rim Mining…