I would say that we could not wait to be threatened or murdered in our community before we could go ahead and denounce what was happening, because I know that in El Salvador, and I think I speak for Aleisar as well, the mining companies threaten our communities. One of the main things that mining companies do in our communities is to buy out leaders and to generate corruption. In the case of El Salvador, it's public officials who are being bought out.
We have not acted with any parliamentarians. We have acted with organizations that are concerned about the problems that exist in our country, and we have looked for places and opportunities to tell you our story. We were allowed to visit Canada, and what do we have to do? We have to find a way of expressing what is actually happening in our communities, because you may have a solution to propose. That is what we are here to talk about, not just for communities and populations in Latin America and Central America, but there are also organizations here in Canada that are saying it's important to work on solving environmental problems and human rights problems that exist because of the mining industry, which is destroying natural resources. So that is why we think it's a good time to tell you about this. We're here and we're very happy to be able to talk about all that is concerning us in our communities.
I am not a lawyer or a technician or a geologist. What I'm saying is that our communities have demands, they are being threatened day to day, and our position is to present that, and that is what I wanted to share with you.