El Salvador overturns metals mining ban, defying environmental groups - El Salvador

President Nayib Bukele pushed for the legislation that will grant government sole authority over mining activities El Salvador s legislature has overturned a seven-year-old ban on metals mining, a move that the countrys authoritarian president, Nayib Bukele, had pushed for to boost economic growth, but that environmental groups had opposed. El Salvador became the first country in the world to ban all forms of metals minin