This Sunday, December 22, during Sunday mass at the San Rafael Arcángel parish, the Archbishop of San Salvador, Monsignor José Luis Escobar Alas, expressed his position on metallic mining and emphasized that it would have “irreversible consequences” for the environment and the Salvadoran population, stressing that the country's water resources, especially the Lempa River, are at serious risk of contamination by chemicals such as cyanide, arsenic and mercury, used in the extraction of metals. teleSUR
