distrust and debauchery
a guide to take us on the right track, to tell us what we must do and how. We do not understand that everything leads us to the same destination, ignorance. Seek the way of chasing its tail, but without mordérnosla are the only ones entitled to make our final, where we want to and who want to be.
forget the shadows of the past that haunt us day and night, disturbing our peace, longing for the warmth of a whisper that touches our ears.
take leave of what we have been without missing a beat in turning the head and long for, take it as a forever, not just a goodbye. Us marking, marks and mark us.
Our decisions make us mature, grow, move, laugh, mourn. Always, though we are sure that it is wrong, always going to be right if what we want.
not erase your memory drawer who has been with you, leave it in the toilet every morning go over his eyes, is something beautiful and memorable. Walk
but despise wisdom for a moment.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Initiation Dance Ideas
Mining Council cites a Court of Ethics
confusion and displacement among journalists:
OLCA Mining Council cites a Court of Ethics Frontier Mining
In the midst of a hostile reception, OLCA quoted the Mining Council to the citizens' initiative that aims to analyze the serious consequences it is having the growth of mining in the region and especially those taking place in the countries' border areas.
The Court Ethical Frontier Mining cited to answer the serious allegations that the organizations and civil society communities are making the expansion of mining in Latin America on Thursday 30 at the CUT to a panel of judges recognized for its defense human rights.
however, and caused strangeness among the media present, the Mining Council resented the presence of reporters in his office, a fact which ended with a threat of eviction by the presence of security guards of the building but that did not materialize because the press was voluntarily withdrawn .
While Lucio Cuenca, director of OLCA and citizen activity coordinator, explained to a secretary the reason for his visit and asked to be received by the General Manager of the Mining Council, Javier Cox, who was on the premises of the labor union - did wait in reception. At that time the press took to make the respective questions.
not spent more than two minutes when a woman, an official of the labor union, connimó journalists to end the interview by interrupting the Basin and even words, pulling the microphone from Radio Bio Bio journalist, saying it was a private space.
She asked for the identification of the journalist and the subject of the interview within the Mining Council, to which the communicator and identifying replied back asking for official identification. The situation was repeated twice getting increasingly tense until the woman told she would call security. Whereupon, the journalists decided to retire. All this was recorded by the press.
With one day in advance, Javier Cox, General Manager of the Mining Council, had been informed of the subpoena to the Mining Tribunal Border and was in the office next to the scene with the door open, most likely listening to happened.
In any case, the delivery and receipt of summons was dated September 28, 2010 and President of the Mining Council has 24 hours to respond with respect to participation in the Court of Ethics to the Mining Frontier. Communications
OLCA
confusion and displacement among journalists:
OLCA Mining Council cites a Court of Ethics Frontier Mining
In the midst of a hostile reception, OLCA quoted the Mining Council to the citizens' initiative that aims to analyze the serious consequences it is having the growth of mining in the region and especially those taking place in the countries' border areas.
The Court Ethical Frontier Mining cited to answer the serious allegations that the organizations and civil society communities are making the expansion of mining in Latin America on Thursday 30 at the CUT to a panel of judges recognized for its defense human rights.
however, and caused strangeness among the media present, the Mining Council resented the presence of reporters in his office, a fact which ended with a threat of eviction by the presence of security guards of the building but that did not materialize because the press was voluntarily withdrawn .
While Lucio Cuenca, director of OLCA and citizen activity coordinator, explained to a secretary the reason for his visit and asked to be received by the General Manager of the Mining Council, Javier Cox, who was on the premises of the labor union - did wait in reception. At that time the press took to make the respective questions.
not spent more than two minutes when a woman, an official of the labor union, connimó journalists to end the interview by interrupting the Basin and even words, pulling the microphone from Radio Bio Bio journalist, saying it was a private space.
She asked for the identification of the journalist and the subject of the interview within the Mining Council, to which the communicator and identifying replied back asking for official identification. The situation was repeated twice getting increasingly tense until the woman told she would call security. Whereupon, the journalists decided to retire. All this was recorded by the press.
With one day in advance, Javier Cox, General Manager of the Mining Council, had been informed of the subpoena to the Mining Tribunal Border and was in the office next to the scene with the door open, most likely listening to happened.
In any case, the delivery and receipt of summons was dated September 28, 2010 and President of the Mining Council has 24 hours to respond with respect to participation in the Court of Ethics to the Mining Frontier. Communications
OLCA
Monday, September 27, 2010
Smoked Ham Hocks For Dogs
Frontier Mining Mining Tribunal against border ethical
Ethics Tribunal Mining Frontier:
Ethics Tribunal Mining Frontier:
human rights defenders are judging panel
Persons with long experience will be part of the judging panel to formulate an ethical boundary for mining. Mission will consider and issue a ruling on the implications of this model of extraction in Latin America where there will be cases like the Pascua Lama project in Chile and Argentina. The judging panel is linked to the rights of the indigenous world, the association and advocate for protection of the environment.
The judging panel is composed of international personalities linked to the defense of human rights as Bishop Emeritus Chile Ancud, Monsignor Juan Luis Ysern ; Sister Elsie Monge , Executive Director of the Ecumenical Commission of Human Rights (CEDHU) in Ecuador; Lorenzo Wheeler, leader Guambiano Indian who has participated in many movements for the ancestral rights of indigenous peoples of Colombia; Karyn Keenan , Program Director Halifax Initiative in Canada, and Cristian Cuevas, Secretary of collective bargaining, conflict and solidarity of the Confederation of Workers of Chile (CUT).
The program will begin at 9 am on September 30 judges and will run until 18 pm with a extensive itinerary that includes exhibitions of the affected border Mexico-Guatemala, Guatemala, Salvador, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, and Chile-Argentina to the Pascua Lama project. At the end of Court issue a ruling on the implications of this model of extraction in Latin America.
The activity was held in the Hall CUT, Alameda 1346, Metro Moneda. The ethical Court Frontier Mining will be broadcast Live on Radio Del Mar over the Internet for everyone in www.radiodelmar.cl .
Paths panel of judges
Chilean Bishop Emeritus of Ancud, Monsignor Juan Luis Ysern , has had a long history in defense of cultural heritage, specifically the town Huilliche in Chiloé. He was recognized and accepted by his work as a member of the village Huilliche by the General Council of Chiefs of Chiloé and the Federation of Indigenous Communities Chiloe. He received the National Prize of Culture for his career in the defense of Cultural Heritage and received the Medal of the Order of Merit Pablo Neruda Artistic and Cultural delivering the National Council for Culture and the Arts.
Sister Elsie Monge currently is Executive Director of the Ecumenical Commission of Human Rights (CEDHU) in Ecuador where he helps refugees expatriate politicians and dictators like Chile's. After living in Mexico, Colombia, Panama and Chile, returned to his native Ecuador where she worked with immigrants of African descent for identity and memory. Then supported the creation of the Federation of Chota, where farmers did a land reclamation process. She integrates the CEDHU since 1981 and is its director since 1986, alongside Ecuadorian created the Human Rights Front.
Lorenzo Wheels is leader Guambiano Indian who has participated in many movements for the ancestral rights of indigenous peoples of Colombia. He was one of the founders of the Cauca Indigenous Regional Committee (CRIC) and the Indigenous Authorities of the South West (AICO), which today is called Indigenous Authorities of Colombia (AICO). He was elected governor of the indigenous community in 1985 Guambiano then become part of the Council of Elders who heads the City Council. Participated in the National Constituent Assembly that ended with the drafting of the 1991 Colombian Constitution. Three years later he was elected Senator of the Republic for the special indigenous to the constitutional period 1994-1998. In 2006 young people chose him as governor of Guambía, the highest office in the nation. Currently sits on the table between the government and the communities of Cauca to resolve a land dispute involving the Colombian and indigenous peoples. Despite years of struggle, Wheeler states that "much remains to be done."
Karyn Keenan is Halifax Initiative program director in Canada, a coalition bringing together more than twenty organizations working on the development, the environment, faith, human rights and labor rights. He has extensive experience in issues of social and environmental justice from which he has supported communities affected by the impacts of mining and oil extraction in Peru and Bolivia. In recent years he has participated in the round tables in Canada for Corporate Social Responsibility and the Canadian Extractive Industry in Developing Countries with the aim of achieving greater restrictions on Canadian companies operating in other countries.
Cristian Cuevas, son of a coal miner, his life has been involved in organizing for labor improvements and expand the rights of workers associated with mining. He was President of the Confederation of Copper Workers (CTC) and is currently Secretary of collective bargaining, conflict and solidarity of the Confederation of Workers of Chile. In 2007, he led a strike that lasted for 37 days taking access to the main CODELCO miners who achieved improvements in wages, health insurance, life insurance, scholarship and a major productivity bonus for workers subcontractors. Active member of the Communist Party of Chile where he supported the candidacy of the iconic leader Gladys Marin PC in 1999.
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Thursday, September 23, 2010
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Lucio Cuenca, director of the Latin American Observatory for Environmental Conflicts (OLCA), adding that this is an initiative of the Metropolitan area organizations that provide assistance to various communities in conflict with mining projects in the country borders .
Cuenca said that thanks to the Chilean-Argentine Mining Treaty, signed in 1997 and ratified in 2001, the project Pascualama to Despite the problems it has had, is about to unfold and that is just the first of many to come.
The following, as estimated, is El Pachón in Chile is at the height of Salamanca but would be operated by Argentina. However, due to the trans-Andean mountainous topography in this area, all production must go through our territory. In the first Tribunal
Ethics on the Mining Frontier, will be analyzed cases that are happening between Mexico and Guatemala, Salvador, Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, Chile, Argentina and Chile. Major conflicts
established between border communities and Mining companies have to see, as designated by the director of OLCA with predatory use of water resources, pollution of local environments and regional interventions. Cuenca
further noted that this is a new scenario, but the potential to generate many problems in the region because local laws are not prepared for it.
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Court will discuss the Mining Frontier and the major environmental conflicts
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By 30 September this year is scheduled the first meeting of the Ethics Tribunal on the Mining Frontier, an organization that seeks to confront and denounce civil society from a new industrial aggression against the environment. So informed Lucio Cuenca, director of the Latin American Observatory for Environmental Conflicts (OLCA), adding that this is an initiative of the Metropolitan area organizations that provide assistance to various communities in conflict with mining projects in the country borders .
Cuenca said that thanks to the Chilean-Argentine Mining Treaty, signed in 1997 and ratified in 2001, the project Pascualama to Despite the problems it has had, is about to unfold and that is just the first of many to come.
The following, as estimated, is El Pachón in Chile is at the height of Salamanca but would be operated by Argentina. However, due to the trans-Andean mountainous topography in this area, all production must go through our territory. In the first Tribunal
Ethics on the Mining Frontier, will be analyzed cases that are happening between Mexico and Guatemala, Salvador, Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, Chile, Argentina and Chile. Major conflicts
established between border communities and Mining companies have to see, as designated by the director of OLCA with predatory use of water resources, pollution of local environments and regional interventions. Cuenca
further noted that this is a new scenario, but the potential to generate many problems in the region because local laws are not prepared for it.
Click here - to go to the news and hear the statement
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as Pascua Lama Project in the Latin American is a paradigm for a new form of exploitation of mineral resources promoted by transnational threatening local communities, the environment and the internal security of countries .
For ethical decision transnational mining: organizing Olca First Court of Frontier Mining in Chile
addition to Chile and Argentina, will be on communities in Mexico, El Salvador, Ecuador, Brazil, Peru and Bolivia. To pass sentence on the mining frontier, the panel of judges will consist of great personalities.
The Court Ethical Frontier Mining seeks sentencing ethically extractive multinationals for their actions against communities and the environment. Flagship enterprises such as Pascua Lama in Chile-Argentina border nortino, which has caused great social rejection by their tremendous implications, cases will be used as evidence to a give a sentence extraction model is has been spreading across the continent in recent years.
Mining eliminates border restrictions in the border areas of the country, creating bi-national territories under the administration of transnational corporations. This happens, for example, the Pascua Lama project and Barrick Gold El Pachón of Xstrata on the border between Chile and Argentina in the Andes, and even today there are a number of questions that public services have failed to respond.
Will the evidence of conflicts of mining projects in the border of Guatemala and El Salvador (Mina Cerro Blanco of Gold Corp.), Brazil and Bolivia ( The Mutún in The Pantanal ), Peru with Ecuador (Cordillera del Condor), and Chile with Argentina and the flagship project Pascua Lama and the Panchón.
To achieve this public condemnation and ethics from American civil society will be a panel of judges made up of personalities linked to the rights humans, the world association, pastoral work and environmental protection, and rights of indigenous peoples.
The Court will be held Sept. 30 at the hall of the headquarters of the United Workers Central (CUT, Alameda 1346) from 9 am. Admission is free. More information www.olca.cl . Convened
Sanjuanina Assembly against Pollution and Plunder, Argentina, Acción Ecológica, Ecuador; CooperAcción, Peru, Bolivarian Forum on Environment and Development, Fobomade; Latin American Observatory for Environmental Conflicts, Olca; and Observatory of Mining Conflicts in Latin America Ocmal.
The Citizen
Inappropriate Birthday Cards
The Citizen Panel of Judges is confirmed
defense personnel of human rights Tribunal
joined Frontier Mining Latinamericano
Personalities of the continent are judging panel to develop an ethical trial
mining to settle border
ethically emblematic cases such as Pascua Lama in Chile-Argentina border. Some of them are linked to
the rights of the indigenous world, the association, to defend human rights and
for the protection of the environment.
Chilean Bishop Emeritus of Ancud, Monsignor Juan Luis Ysern,
has had extensive experience in defending cultural heritage, specifically the town
Huilliche in Chiloé. He was recognized and accepted by its work for human
rights as a member of Huilliche people by the General Council of Chiefs of
Chiloé and the Federation of Indigenous Communities of Chiloé.
received the National Culture for his career in the defense of Cultural Heritage and
received the Medal of the Order of Merit Pablo Neruda Artistic and Cultural
delivering the National Council for Culture and the Arts.
Sister Elsie Monge is currently Director Executive
Ecumenical Commission of Human Rights (CEDHU) in Ecuador where
helps political refugees and expatriates of dictatorships like Chile.
After living in Mexico, Colombia, Panama and Chile, returned to his native Ecuador where he worked with
immigrants of African descent to maintain their identity and memory.
then supported the creation of the Federation of Chota, where farmers
made a reclamation process. Sister Elsie Monge integrates
CEDHU since 1981 and is its director since 1986. He created the Ecuadorian Front
Human Rights. However, she still maintains that "the worst attack on human rights is
poverty "and paraphrased the Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo
stating that" when we are with others, on the edge of an eternal morning, do all we
have breakfast? "
Guambiano is indigenous leader who has participated in many movements
ancestral rights of indigenous peoples of Colombia
. He was one of the founders of the Cauca Indigenous Regional Committee
(CRIC) and the Indigenous Authorities of the South West (AICO) today
Indigenous Authorities of Colombia (AICO). He was elected governor of the indigenous community
Guambiano in 1985 before going on to be part of the Council of Elders
who heads the council. It is known as the "Taita" wisdom, honorific title given by the Indians guambianos
who have a recognized authority.
participated in the National Constituent Assembly that ended with the drafting of the Constitution
Colombian Constitution of 1991. Three years later he was elected Senator of the Republic
for special indigenous for the constitutional period 1994-1998. In 2006,
young people chose him as governor of Guambía,
the highest office of their nation. He is currently board member of consensus between the government and communities
del Cauca to resolve a land dispute involving
the Colombian State and indigenous peoples. Despite years of struggle,
Wheeler asserts that "much remains to be done."
is director Karyn Keenan Halifax Initiative program in Canada, a coalition
brings together more than twenty organizations working on development,
the environment, faith, human rights and labor rights. It has a vast experience in
issues of social justice and environmental where
has supported communities affected by impacts of mining and petroleum in Peru and Bolivia
. In recent years he has participated in the roundtable
Canada on Corporate Social Responsibility and the Canadian Extractive Industry in Developing
countries with the aim of achieving greater restrictions on
Canadian companies operating in other countries.
Cristian Cuevas, son of a coal miner, has been all his life
involved in the union to make improvements and expand labor rights of workers
linked to mining. He was President of the Confederation of
Copper Workers (CTC) and Secretary of collective bargaining, conflict and solidarity
Confederation of Workers of Chile. In 2007,
led a strike that lasted for 37 days taking access to the main
CODELCO miners who achieved improvements in wages, health insurance, life insurance
, scholarship and a major productivity bonus
subcontracted workers. Currently with the Communist Party of Chile from where
supported the candidacy of the iconic leader Gladys Marin PC in 1999.
defense personnel of human rights Tribunal
joined Frontier Mining Latinamericano
Personalities of the continent are judging panel to develop an ethical trial
mining to settle border
ethically emblematic cases such as Pascua Lama in Chile-Argentina border. Some of them are linked to
the rights of the indigenous world, the association, to defend human rights and
for the protection of the environment.
Chilean Bishop Emeritus of Ancud, Monsignor Juan Luis Ysern,
has had extensive experience in defending cultural heritage, specifically the town
Huilliche in Chiloé. He was recognized and accepted by its work for human
rights as a member of Huilliche people by the General Council of Chiefs of
Chiloé and the Federation of Indigenous Communities of Chiloé.
received the National Culture for his career in the defense of Cultural Heritage and
received the Medal of the Order of Merit Pablo Neruda Artistic and Cultural
delivering the National Council for Culture and the Arts.
Sister Elsie Monge is currently Director Executive
Ecumenical Commission of Human Rights (CEDHU) in Ecuador where
helps political refugees and expatriates of dictatorships like Chile.
After living in Mexico, Colombia, Panama and Chile, returned to his native Ecuador where he worked with
immigrants of African descent to maintain their identity and memory.
then supported the creation of the Federation of Chota, where farmers
made a reclamation process. Sister Elsie Monge integrates
CEDHU since 1981 and is its director since 1986. He created the Ecuadorian Front
Human Rights. However, she still maintains that "the worst attack on human rights is
poverty "and paraphrased the Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo
stating that" when we are with others, on the edge of an eternal morning, do all we
have breakfast? "
Guambiano is indigenous leader who has participated in many movements
ancestral rights of indigenous peoples of Colombia
. He was one of the founders of the Cauca Indigenous Regional Committee
(CRIC) and the Indigenous Authorities of the South West (AICO) today
Indigenous Authorities of Colombia (AICO). He was elected governor of the indigenous community
Guambiano in 1985 before going on to be part of the Council of Elders
who heads the council. It is known as the "Taita" wisdom, honorific title given by the Indians guambianos
who have a recognized authority.
participated in the National Constituent Assembly that ended with the drafting of the Constitution
Colombian Constitution of 1991. Three years later he was elected Senator of the Republic
for special indigenous for the constitutional period 1994-1998. In 2006,
young people chose him as governor of Guambía,
the highest office of their nation. He is currently board member of consensus between the government and communities
del Cauca to resolve a land dispute involving
the Colombian State and indigenous peoples. Despite years of struggle,
Wheeler asserts that "much remains to be done."
is director Karyn Keenan Halifax Initiative program in Canada, a coalition
brings together more than twenty organizations working on development,
the environment, faith, human rights and labor rights. It has a vast experience in
issues of social justice and environmental where
has supported communities affected by impacts of mining and petroleum in Peru and Bolivia
. In recent years he has participated in the roundtable
Canada on Corporate Social Responsibility and the Canadian Extractive Industry in Developing
countries with the aim of achieving greater restrictions on
Canadian companies operating in other countries.
Cristian Cuevas, son of a coal miner, has been all his life
involved in the union to make improvements and expand labor rights of workers
linked to mining. He was President of the Confederation of
Copper Workers (CTC) and Secretary of collective bargaining, conflict and solidarity
Confederation of Workers of Chile. In 2007,
led a strike that lasted for 37 days taking access to the main
CODELCO miners who achieved improvements in wages, health insurance, life insurance
, scholarship and a major productivity bonus
subcontracted workers. Currently with the Communist Party of Chile from where
supported the candidacy of the iconic leader Gladys Marin PC in 1999.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Belt Buckle Blanks,flat
OLCA 1st tribunal organized mining frontier in Chile
born
For ethical decision transnational mining:
First organized OLCA Frontier Mining Tribunal in Chile
as Pascua Lama Project in the Latin American is a paradigm for a new form of exploitation of driven by transnational mineral threatening local communities, the environment and the internal security of countries.
addition to Chile and Argentina, will be on communities in Mexico, El Salvador, Ecuador, Brazil, Peru and Bolivia. To pass sentence on the mining frontier, the panel of judges will consist of great personalities.
The Court Ethical Frontier Mining seeks sentencing ethically extractive multinationals for their actions against communities and the environment. Flagship enterprises such as Pascua Lama in Chile-Argentina border nortino, which has caused great social rejection by their tremendous implications, cases will be used as evidence for a sentence to a model that has been catching spreading on the continent in recent years.
The Mining removes border restrictions in the border areas of countries, creating bi-national territories under the administration of transnational corporations. This happens, for example, the Pascua Lama project to Barrick Gold and El Pachón Xstrata on the border between Chile and Argentina in the Andes, and even today there are a number of questions that public services have not able to respond.
Will the evidence of conflicts of mining projects in the border of Guatemala and El Salvador (White Mountain Gold Mine Corp.), Brazil and Bolivia (El Mutún in the Pantanal), Peru Ecuador (Cordillera del Condor), and Chile with Argentina and the flagship project Pascua Lama and the Panchón.
To achieve this public condemnation and ethics from American civil society will be a panel of judges made up of personalities linked to the defense of human rights, the world association, pastoral work and environmental protection, and rights of indigenous peoples.
The Court will be held Sept. 30 at the hall of the headquarters of the United Workers Central (CUT, Alameda 1346) from 9 in the morning. Admission is free. More information www.olca.cl.
Sanjuanina Assembly Convened Pollution and the Looting, Argentina, Acción Ecológica, Ecuador; CooperAcción, Peru, Bolivarian Forum on Environment and Development, Fobomade; Latin American Observatory for Environmental Conflicts, OLCA; and Observatory of Mining Conflicts in Latin America, OCMAL.
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born ethical court against border mining
ethical court against border mining
By Daniela Estrada *
Gold Condor / Credit: Government of Peru
Condor Gold
Credit: Government of Peru
SANTIAGO, (IPS) - They want to draw attention to mining developments in neighboring areas or bilateral implications. American activists are meeting in the Chilean capital to "judge" considered negative projects for local communities, environment and national security.
(http://www.ipsnoticias.net/nota.asp?idnews=96380)
"One of the characteristics of mining activity is now expanding into areas not traditionally played, which prevented the entry for geopolitical reasons or national security, as the borders of the countries, "Lucio Cuenca told IPS, the non-governmental Latin American Observatory for Environmental Conflicts (OLCA) of Chile.
OLCA is one of the organizers of the first court against mining ethical boundary, to be held on 30 this month in Santiago. In that instance will be discussed projects in Argentina and Chile, Ecuador and Peru, Bolivia and Brazil, El Salvador and Guatemala, Mexico, Guatemala and Costa Rica and Nicaragua (Crucitas mine).
The paradigmatic example is constituted by Argentina and Chile, which in 1997 signed the Mining Integration and Complementation. So far five projects have been part of a binational commission the necessary protocol to operate in the border mountain range Los Andes, rich in glaciers.
highlighted the issue Pascua Lama mine of Barrick Gold Corporation, in the northern Chilean region of Atacama and the northwestern province of Argentina, San Juan, in addition to El Pachon, Arrows, Vicuña and Amos, Andrew, all capital foreign.
is still pending the project Cerro Cuadrado, Patagonia, from Canada's Development Prospects Mineros SA.
All are opposed by local communities and environmentalists.
According to Cuenca, the environmental, social and political of this mining, mainly in the hands of transnational companies, are a "New reality" that must be visible, and that is not being served by the "institutionalization of human rights protection, or bilateral or international." Activists criticize
also strong support from governments to businesses. OLCA, for example, found complementarity between the Chilean-Argentine mining agreement and some projects IIRSA (Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America).
ethical
The court, consisting of a panel of judges and Latin American personalities, at different levels prosecute States, mining companies and countries where they originated.
CORDILLERA DEL CONDOR
In northern Peru, on the border with Ecuador, concessions have almost tripled in comparison maps February 2005 and June 2010, with two cases symbolic: the mining of Aphrodite, with Canadian capital, and Río Blanco, China's Zijin Company.
Aphrodite has a gold concession in the Cordillera del Condor in the Amazon region, home to native people Awajún, and known by the conflict that pitted Peru and Ecuador in 1995. Rio Blanco copper explode in a rural area of \u200b\u200bPiura region.
Both projects are in exploration and are shunned by most communities native and rural for fear of contaminating rivers and forests. A similar scenario is observed in the southern Puno and Tacna, bordering Bolivia and Chile, respectively.
José de Echave, non-governmental CooperAcción of Peru, told IPS that "the government has no policy that considers security risks and damage to the environment before giving concessions in border areas. Everything seems to be leaving improvisation. "
Peru's constitution prohibits the granting concessions to foreign capital in the range of 50 kilometers from the border unless they are approved by a Presidential Decree declaring the enterprise of national interest. Between 2002 and 2009 were issued 23 of these decrees.
Magdiel Carrión, Piura peasant leader and president of the National Confederation of Communities Affected by Mining Peru, oppose the draft because it believes that Zijin affect the moors and the White River, which gives rise to two other water courses on the border with Ecuador. According
Carrion projects generate division and violence among those in favor and against. "I hope in the Ethics Tribunal of Chile to bring out what these businesses and see a way of punishing" he asked.
THE PANTANAL
In Bolivia, there is concern of Mutún steel project, in the eastern department of Santa Cruz, which borders Brazil, by the Indian company Jindal Steel.
Patricia Molina, the Bolivian Forum on Environment and Development, said the boost Mutún steel pole in the region of Corumbá, in the southwestern Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, and leave in the background Bolivian interest in having raw materials and finished products derived from iron.
The environmental impact will be felt immediately in the Bolivian region of the Pantanal, the world's largest wetland climate with regulatory function also extends to Paraguay and Brazil, because the steel industry requires large volumes of water for the process of iron in its initial phase, Molina told IPS.
Four years after the signing of the contract between Jindal Steel and the government there has been progress in the project, but some indigenous communities already suffer from a ban on using natural lakes as water sources said. NORTHERN
American Commission on Human Rights, based in Washington, filed May 20 in Guatemala to suspend the operation of gold and silver from the Marlin mine, located in the western department of San Marcos, bordering Mexico , by hosting an injunction in favor of 18 indigenous communities.
However, Explotadora Montana, a subsidiary of Goldcorp, accused of polluting several rivers, continues to operate the mine due to administrative delays in processing suspension.
Entre Mares Meanwhile, another subsidiary of the Canadian corporation, is responsible for the Cerro Blanco project in the southeastern department of Jutiapa bordering El Salvador, the social groups who oppose Salvadorans and Guatemalans.
"There is a risk of a binational political conflict because El Salvador would have legal grounds for claiming that they violate human rights of its citizens" due to possible contamination of shared river and lake Güija Lempa, which supply water to the population of El Salvador, told IPS Rafael Maldonado, non-governmental Centre for Legal Action, Environmental and Social de Guatemala. Natalia
Atz, non-governmental Association Ceiba de Guatemala, told IPS that the implementation of an ethics against mining is a great opportunity to show the damage that this industry is causing to communities in Latin America.
Mexico's Ana Maria Alvarado, a directive of non-governmental Observatory of Mining Conflicts in Latin America, told IPS that court which shall, in the case of Blackfire Exploration Canadian company that extracts barite in the southern state of Chiapas, bordering Guatemala.
was assassinated in November Abarca, leader of the Mexican Network of Concerned and Affected by Mining, known opponent of Blackfire. Since the mine closed in December.
A mission of Canadian non-governmental organizations who visited Chiapas this year found environmental damage, corruption and human rights violations by the mining. Contributions
* Milagros Salazar (Lima), Franz Chávez (La Paz), Danilo Valladares (Guatemala), Emilio Godoy (Mexico). (FIN/2010)
ethical court against border mining
By Daniela Estrada *
Gold Condor / Credit: Government of Peru
Condor Gold
Credit: Government of Peru
SANTIAGO, (IPS) - They want to draw attention to mining developments in neighboring areas or bilateral implications. American activists are meeting in the Chilean capital to "judge" considered negative projects for local communities, environment and national security.
(http://www.ipsnoticias.net/nota.asp?idnews=96380)
"One of the characteristics of mining activity is now expanding into areas not traditionally played, which prevented the entry for geopolitical reasons or national security, as the borders of the countries, "Lucio Cuenca told IPS, the non-governmental Latin American Observatory for Environmental Conflicts (OLCA) of Chile.
OLCA is one of the organizers of the first court against mining ethical boundary, to be held on 30 this month in Santiago. In that instance will be discussed projects in Argentina and Chile, Ecuador and Peru, Bolivia and Brazil, El Salvador and Guatemala, Mexico, Guatemala and Costa Rica and Nicaragua (Crucitas mine).
The paradigmatic example is constituted by Argentina and Chile, which in 1997 signed the Mining Integration and Complementation. So far five projects have been part of a binational commission the necessary protocol to operate in the border mountain range Los Andes, rich in glaciers.
highlighted the issue Pascua Lama mine of Barrick Gold Corporation, in the northern Chilean region of Atacama and the northwestern province of Argentina, San Juan, in addition to El Pachon, Arrows, Vicuña and Amos, Andrew, all capital foreign.
is still pending the project Cerro Cuadrado, Patagonia, from Canada's Development Prospects Mineros SA.
All are opposed by local communities and environmentalists.
According to Cuenca, the environmental, social and political of this mining, mainly in the hands of transnational companies, are a "New reality" that must be visible, and that is not being served by the "institutionalization of human rights protection, or bilateral or international." Activists criticize
also strong support from governments to businesses. OLCA, for example, found complementarity between the Chilean-Argentine mining agreement and some projects IIRSA (Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America).
ethical
The court, consisting of a panel of judges and Latin American personalities, at different levels prosecute States, mining companies and countries where they originated.
CORDILLERA DEL CONDOR
In northern Peru, on the border with Ecuador, concessions have almost tripled in comparison maps February 2005 and June 2010, with two cases symbolic: the mining of Aphrodite, with Canadian capital, and Río Blanco, China's Zijin Company.
Aphrodite has a gold concession in the Cordillera del Condor in the Amazon region, home to native people Awajún, and known by the conflict that pitted Peru and Ecuador in 1995. Rio Blanco copper explode in a rural area of \u200b\u200bPiura region.
Both projects are in exploration and are shunned by most communities native and rural for fear of contaminating rivers and forests. A similar scenario is observed in the southern Puno and Tacna, bordering Bolivia and Chile, respectively.
José de Echave, non-governmental CooperAcción of Peru, told IPS that "the government has no policy that considers security risks and damage to the environment before giving concessions in border areas. Everything seems to be leaving improvisation. "
Peru's constitution prohibits the granting concessions to foreign capital in the range of 50 kilometers from the border unless they are approved by a Presidential Decree declaring the enterprise of national interest. Between 2002 and 2009 were issued 23 of these decrees.
Magdiel Carrión, Piura peasant leader and president of the National Confederation of Communities Affected by Mining Peru, oppose the draft because it believes that Zijin affect the moors and the White River, which gives rise to two other water courses on the border with Ecuador. According
Carrion projects generate division and violence among those in favor and against. "I hope in the Ethics Tribunal of Chile to bring out what these businesses and see a way of punishing" he asked.
THE PANTANAL
In Bolivia, there is concern of Mutún steel project, in the eastern department of Santa Cruz, which borders Brazil, by the Indian company Jindal Steel.
Patricia Molina, the Bolivian Forum on Environment and Development, said the boost Mutún steel pole in the region of Corumbá, in the southwestern Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, and leave in the background Bolivian interest in having raw materials and finished products derived from iron.
The environmental impact will be felt immediately in the Bolivian region of the Pantanal, the world's largest wetland climate with regulatory function also extends to Paraguay and Brazil, because the steel industry requires large volumes of water for the process of iron in its initial phase, Molina told IPS.
Four years after the signing of the contract between Jindal Steel and the government there has been progress in the project, but some indigenous communities already suffer from a ban on using natural lakes as water sources said. NORTHERN
American Commission on Human Rights, based in Washington, filed May 20 in Guatemala to suspend the operation of gold and silver from the Marlin mine, located in the western department of San Marcos, bordering Mexico , by hosting an injunction in favor of 18 indigenous communities.
However, Explotadora Montana, a subsidiary of Goldcorp, accused of polluting several rivers, continues to operate the mine due to administrative delays in processing suspension.
Entre Mares Meanwhile, another subsidiary of the Canadian corporation, is responsible for the Cerro Blanco project in the southeastern department of Jutiapa bordering El Salvador, the social groups who oppose Salvadorans and Guatemalans.
"There is a risk of a binational political conflict because El Salvador would have legal grounds for claiming that they violate human rights of its citizens" due to possible contamination of shared river and lake Güija Lempa, which supply water to the population of El Salvador, told IPS Rafael Maldonado, non-governmental Centre for Legal Action, Environmental and Social de Guatemala. Natalia
Atz, non-governmental Association Ceiba de Guatemala, told IPS that the implementation of an ethics against mining is a great opportunity to show the damage that this industry is causing to communities in Latin America.
Mexico's Ana Maria Alvarado, a directive of non-governmental Observatory of Mining Conflicts in Latin America, told IPS that court which shall, in the case of Blackfire Exploration Canadian company that extracts barite in the southern state of Chiapas, bordering Guatemala.
was assassinated in November Abarca, leader of the Mexican Network of Concerned and Affected by Mining, known opponent of Blackfire. Since the mine closed in December.
A mission of Canadian non-governmental organizations who visited Chiapas this year found environmental damage, corruption and human rights violations by the mining. Contributions
* Milagros Salazar (Lima), Franz Chávez (La Paz), Danilo Valladares (Guatemala), Emilio Godoy (Mexico). (FIN/2010)
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