Wirikuta’s people

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They understand 70% of 140 thousand hectares in San Luis Potosi
Wirikuta’s people
By: Carlos Damián June 2, 2012
The biggest threat is the Universo project: Huicholes
México. - In the San Luis Potosí State the reservation of Wirikuta embraces 140 thousand hectares, around 70 percent of the surface is distributed in 76 mining concessions and they have not modified in spite of the federal government's announcement that it dedicates like national mining reservation 45 thousand hectares, notices the front in Defense of Wirikuta (FDW). Of that surface, only 761 (of 4 thousand 500) hectares were given by the mining First Majestic Silver (FMS) to the federal government to be included in the national mining reservation, but the biggest threat is that of the company Revolution Resources with its Universo project in 59 thousand hectares, almost half of Wirikuta, sacred territory of the Wixárica (Huicholes).

The past 24 of May, in what described as “historical fact", the federal government announced the supply of lands of the 22 concessions from FMS to the Federal government and the wixárica people; in total 45 thousand hectares that would be part of the national reservation. In accordance with the article 10, chapter second, of the Mining Law, “for causes of public utility or for the satisfaction of future necessities of the country they will be able to settle down area of mining reservations, by means of ordinance of the Federal Executive published in the 'Official Newspaper of the Federation'. About the incorporate Areas to these reservations concessions neither mining assignments won't be granted."

In this mining context it lacks that the ordinance is published. In accordance with gathered information, The company FMS occupies in total 5 thousand 700 hectares, and those that in total 5 thousand 700 hectares, and those that it gave are those that are around cerro Quemado, same hill that one year ago it had already offered to the communities and they leave the veins that the company seeks to detonate outside. As long as, the federal government handed over the passed week (the last pay period of May) to representatives of the Wixárika Union of ceremonial Centers documents on the geo-referenced of the sacred route and the ceremonial centers, but he had promised that he would give them for a revision before presenting them as final results. "The government is already making decisions about Wirikuta has more than enough with base in the final results of this geo-referenced that it has never shared with the Wixárika town."

Of being summed up the existent plans “for the imposition of mega-projects in this sacred earth, it would be desolated the mountain Sierra de Catorce, womb of the entirety of the social fabrics for the Wixárica culture, as well as areas of abundant biodiversity in the Sandbank, where the Wixárika people goes on pilgrimage and it gathers its plant sacred jícuri and where the biggest brother is Ka+yumari". Information poured by FDW. Wixárikas Communities of different points of the states of Jalisco, Nayarit, San Luis Potosi, Durango and Zacatecas were given appointment in the Cerro Quemado in the municipality Real de Catorce, San Luis Potosi where Wirikuta you found out, the most important ceremonial center inside the cosmogony wixárika is. (6/28/12)

The circus of the simulation
The Federal Executive seeks to fake that it fixes the conflict in Wirikuta between the Federal government and the Canadian FMS mining, deceiving to the public opinion with an act perverse mediatic, not consulted (5/24/12). This although the company FMS in the diverse opinion forums has manifested its intention of giving its concession permits in a surface of 761 hectares, particularly of the lot denominated “Bonanza 3 fraction 8", concession that authorizes to extract "polimetallics". From this time on the wixárika people has never accepted to receive a " donation " of Cerro Quemado and Cerro Grande, since the ceremonial territory of Wirikuta is recognized and in anything it modifies its project of exploitation that is centered in Four main silver veins that are the San Ramon’s vein, the Villanos’ vein, the Madre’s vein, and San Agustín's vein.

In the case of San Agustín's vein it still persists in the area of the tunnel it dilutes that water leaves clean and drinkable for the population of Real de Catorce, this after 100 years of being had detainee the mining exploitation, although it already registers the devastation of the hydrology patron of the Wirikuta’s ecosystem caused by the perforation of the existent tunnels. However they are much smaller that those that are built with modern mining and that they end up being of the size of a big vault.

The studies hidrogeologic demonstrates that the mining exploitation of the “La Luz” project could cause a terrible impact to the hydrological dynamics putting the risk of supply of many families of the town, as well as of the sacred places of the Wixárika town. Some chemists used in the flotation process are: Aerophine 3418TM, Aerofroth 70TM, Aerofroth 76ATM. These chemists used in no way are innocuous, since it has been documented the environmental damages, in such a way that they affect gravely to the flora and the fauna.

In this line of information, the company affirms that it sought to negotiate that surface in exchange for that the Wixárika town stopped its social fight and the Wixárika Regional Council rejected it categorically, and the Federal government made the dirty work of not consulting, to try to impose, to manipulate the information, trying to divide to the Huichol town and the thousands of social activist people that they have taken this social fight as own. (La Jornada, politica, p. 8, June 2, 2012)