Neoliberal operation

National
The mining wealth
Neoliberal operation
By: Carlos Damián April 7, 2012
The technocrats from Mexico
México. - The economic freedom of our country has conferred it so much peculiar features to our class contradictions like the type of fights for the independence that they have undertaken our towns. This circumstance became evident in the second half of the XX century, mainly because the interests of the oligarchy, the factice power and foreigners interested in the maintenance of the status quo didn't conform to with the economic extraction, but they had an objective primarily politician to control the " agents " that could weaken to this reactionary group, and the best method that they found it was to impose, during decades bloody dictatorships to those that sustained with all their resources.

We could not mention in detail the Latin American dictatorships of the last fifty years, but we don't stop to remember the bloodiest in the American south cone, as that of Augusto Pinochet that was imposed by their cruelty, violence a Chilean holocaust. The coup d’état to Salvador Allende is one of the episodes more brutal state aggression of the Latin American history. What nobody discusses is that Pinochet became rich with the dead, and to blood and fire was imposed the neo-liberalism, with base essentially in the privatization of the state companies, of the system of health and of the retirement funds. The economic transformation, to the help of the Chicago Boys and of their mentor Milton Friedman, it began after the military blow by means of a drastic reduction of the public expense and massive discharges in the state apparatus that had a high social cost. The neo-liberalism was imposed in variety of Latin American countries and for diverse roads, after the bloody rehearsal in Pinochet's Chile.

The current politics
In Chile it was facilitated the neoliberal operation largely thanks to the armed arm of the army. In Mexico, the transfer and application of these visions of the world far from the reality of the country, but located in the world fashion. The Mexicans have not received this change so traumatic, although yes in form polemic and disastrous. The federal government's control on the power legislative, facilitated the things and a group of economists that they already has more than two decades they manage the economy of the country, and “technocrats " are called, underlining this way the estrangement of the people and even its deep ignorance of the Mexican history.

The Mexican authors and Chilean investigators coincide in that the referred ideological transfer and the application of the neo-liberalism they supposed in both cases a narrow alliance among the directive officials of the economy, the finances, and the elites of the money and the oligarchy beneficiary of the operation. Receiving to change this group accomplice of the change enormous earnings that they have continued for the neo-liberalism route.

Big earnings of the private capital
In exchange for plundering the Mexican country the corporate miners they have been taken an incalculable wealth being only this a small group of national consortia, and the strange companies are in their Canadian majority. Most of they have been taken to the foreign millions of dollars, and without to change the nation receives benefit some. Millions and millions of hectares that they concessions to the great capital of the miner field, thousands and thousands of tons of extracted beautiful metals, enormous damages ecological provoked, miserable paid wages and conditions working infrahuman, to change crumbs, and the call “horn of the abundance” and their inhabitants in the misery.

It is not the best in the business for the inhabitants of the country, but the administration of Calderon insists in that is the best road, that which is shivering in that we go for the “good way", with money of the Mexicans, they stores gold of the Mexicans, extracted of Mexican mines for Mexican workers, and it buys it to historically high prices to private companies, in its majority of foreign origin, concessions for the own federal government, so that they extract the Mexican gold, and they export it in growing quantities to its origin nations.

Some days ago ' The Jornada', published Juan A. Zuñiga journalistic review, “it is an excellent business, the mining companies that operate in Mexico extracted 79 thousand 388 kg of pure gold in 2011, the biggest annual production in the country in less than 31 years, as the INEGI informed". Paradoxically, “the country became this year the main buyer of gold in the world, when acquiring 98 thousand kg of gold for a quantity of 5 thousand 300 million dollars, according to the IMF". The value of the Mexican production in 2011 it can be considered in around 4 thousand 292 million dollars, while five years ago it was of 797.5 million dollars, equivalent to 17 percent of the beginning of this Calderon’s administration. Around 52 million hectares (26% of the country) they are foreigners' property.

He won't be the Calderon’s government that has sustained and supported to unexplained the Mexico mining group of Larrea. Who will be able to stop the looting of Mexico? On the contrary. But neither the Mexican Congress that anything has made to stop the holdup. The public party no way. In fact the only initiative to try that the nation obtained some profit of the mining wealth (presented in 2009 by the senator Francisco Arroyo Vieyra of the PRI) it was quick and directly throwing to the garbage can of the history. (La Jornada, política, p.p. 6- 8, March 23, 2012)