El Salvador’s Misfortune in Gold: Mining, Murder, and Corporate Malfeasance http://www.alterinfos.org/spip.php?article4368

In the end, the communities are rife with social conflict between those in favor and those against the mines, and the environment is poisoned. Vegetation is destroyed, water sources are dried up, livestock are poisoned, children are born with birth defects, and people die of cancer and other diseases from the contamination of the environment. Father Granados described the mining companies as “aggressors, oppressors, monsters…demons for the country.”