The Water Defenders: The Rise of Green Movements and Governments Across Latin America
Channel: Institute for Policy Studies
Date: 2022-11-18

A talk by Robin Broad (Class of 1976) and John Cavanagh, a wife and husband team who have been involved in the Salvadoran gold mining saga since 2009. They helped build the International Allies group that joined with community groups in El Salvador, leading to El Salvador becoming the first country in the world to ban metals mining to save El Salvador’s rivers. The talk took place on November 9, 2022 at Williams College and sponsored by the Class of 1960 Scholars Program and the Center for Environmental Studies (CES)  

* Robin Broad is a Professor at American University and served as an international economist in the U.S. Treasury Department, U.S. Congress, at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

* John Cavanagh is Senior Advisor at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. and author or coauthor of 12 books on the global economy.

Both Broad and Cavanagh are co-authors of the award-winning book, The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed (Beacon Press, also available in Spanish).