New El Salvadoran government inherits lawsuit for refusing Canadian-owned gold mine

Even before former guerrilla commander Salvador Sánchez Cerén is inaugurated as President of El Salvador, his administration is saddled with an unnecessary $301-million liability -- a lawsuit over El Salvador's refusal to allow an environmentally perilous gold mine to be built.

It is a legacy that has already cost the Salvadoran government some $5 million in legal costs -- money that the impoverished nation could have spent on education, health care, disaster relief, you name it.