Come and meet Vidalina Morales an actvist from El Salvador concerned about he impact of mining on her people. Part of an Australia wide speaking tour to raise public awareness about the environmental and human rights impacts of Australian mining corporations in local communities abroad.

Vidalina Morales is a small scale farmer and mother of five children who has worked with ADES for over 10 years. She has been organizing opposition to mining in the department of Cabañas since 2006, when she realized that her community would be directly impacted by the implementation of the El Dorado mining project by Canadian based Pacific Rim Mining Co, now owned by Ocean Gold an Australian Company.

She is recognized internationally as one of the leading voices of the environmental defense movement in El Salvador and has travelled extensively through South and North America speaking about El Salvador’s fight against mining. In 2009 she gave the acceptance speech for the Mesa’s Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award in Washing DC, recently she participated in a Canada wide tour to speak about the impacts Canadian mining