Special Report - Social unrest in Latin America I - Mining (ISSN 17414474)

Four mining projects that have attracted opposition straddle international borders. Two of them, Pascua Lama and Pachón, are in South America, involve the same countries — Argentina and Chile — and have provoked the same kind of objections. The other two, Cerro Blanco and Crucitas, are in Central America and have also provoked similar objections, but they involve different pairs of countries: Guatemala and El Salvador in one; Costa Rica and Nicaragua in the other. The potential for interstate confrontation came to the surface in one case.

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