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For ethical decision transnational mining: organizing Olca First Court of Frontier Mining in Chile

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 .

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.

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