The Legal Cultures of the Subsoil Database

The Legal Cultures of the Subsoil Database is an open-access digital and bilingual (English/Spanish) research resource which maps out relevant legal and legal-like actions employed by a range of actors who have sought to assert fundamental rights in the context of socio-environmental conflicts over industrial mining.The database contains information on a selection of eight paradigmatic mining projects in Central America and Mexico: El Dorado (El Salvador), Cerro Blanco, Escobal and Marlin (Guatemala), San Martín and ASP & ASP2 (Honduras), La Libertad (Nicaragua), and Reducción Norte & Corazón de Tinieblas (Mexico).