El Salvador lawmakers overturn mining ban in win for president
El Salvador lawmakers overturn mining ban in win for president
SAN SALVADOR, Dec 23 (Reuters) - El Salvador's legislature overturned a seven-year-old ban on metals mining on Monday, a move that 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 mining in 2017. Bukele, who took office in 2019, has called the ban absurd. All 57 of Bukele's allies in the Central American country's 60-seat legislature voted for the president's legislation to overturn the ban.
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