The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, bet this Tuesday for metallic mining in the country as an option for development and to fix water pollution. teleSUR
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00:00Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele defended the reactivation of metallic mining on the grounds
00:05that if rivers get polluted due to his project, it is because they were clean.
00:10For its negative consequences, the Salvadoran legislation had banned the practice
00:14that Bukele is now willing to reactivate. The president categorically assured that mining
00:20is not linked to the river's pollution, but showed no scientific evidence of his criteria.
00:26In contrast, studies endorsed by the United Nations have unfolded that 90% of industrial
00:32extractive operations use cyanide. That is why experts have asked the executive
00:38and the legislature to disregard this initiative.
00:46What I think is that in a country as dirty as ours, because no one can let me lie,
00:50our country is dirty, it is dirty due to the garbage, it is dirty due to leachates,
00:54it is dirty due to sewage and grey water, it is dirty due to the lack of water treatment,
00:58it is dirty due to the bad culture we have of throwing garbage away,
01:01we have seen how entire factories throw their dyes and raw materials into rivers,
01:06we see how hospital waste falls into rivers, there are trails that kill cows and throw their
01:10blood directly into rivers and streams, suddenly the river turns red and that is blood
01:15or ink from the textile factories.