We even spoke with Zelaya's first cousin and Zelaya's own Defense Minister, Edmundo Orellana, who resigned from the cabinet because of his opposition to Zelaya's constitutional reform and the ouster of the chief of the armed forces.
In particular, according to Orellana, Pacific Rim failed to provide an adequate environmental impact assessment for its proposed mine and did not meet the Salvadoran requirement that mining companies own the land that would be affected by their operations.