"Mining law” in Mexico

National The poor states and the barons of the rich mining "Mining law” in Mexico By: Carlos Damian December 22, 2012 The municipalities obtain crumbs of the mining ones Mexico. - They like part of the one denominated Pact by Mexico, those below signatory they committed to send a new law for the mining exploitation, “that revises the outline of concessions and payments of federal rights linked to the production", with the purpose of transforming the mining in an efficient and socially responsible industry", and that the captured resources are channeled “priority”, to the municipalities and communities where the mining exploitations settle down. The matter is of the biggest transcendence, all time that has been concessional to the private capital more than a fourth part of the national territory, which obtains big earnings without the nation that supposedly is landlady of the wealth concessional according to the Mexican constitution, and obtain anything to change. In this path it urges that this chapter for Mexico it lands to the brevity, although everything indicates that the matter miner is not included in the unusual velocity that the federal government and Congress of the Republic they apply when to present and to approve other law initiatives. The matter tried in this information is not smaller, since all time that has been concessional to the national and transnational capital more than a fourth part of the national territory and with the federal government's permission to a small group of companies, among which can find with the fingers of a hand, and the other ones that they are counted by dozen are of Canadian origin. They monopolize the enormous wealth mining Mexican, given to the private capital from Carlos Salinas that deceived us with the entrance from Mexico to the capitalist development of first world power. However these mining concessions were made very closely with dedication to the groups’ economic bound financiers to Fox, and Calderon’s people, when the concessions represented more than 52 millions of hectares of the national territory. In exchange for this concession of national lands free, because anything has been requested to change on the part of the states and municipalities where the mining exploitation is of great relevance. The previous event has happened in the biggest silence (omerta’s law), being accomplice the Congress of the Union (federal and state), and certainly don't forget to the national government. We can illustrate with a case paradigmatic, the case of Zacatecas, first producing of silver from times of the Colony, where almost 40 percent of the territory is concessional to the barons of the mining, with Alberto Bailleres heading, this spoil to the nation. This character of sad memory is who year with year he obtains multimillionaire utilities while the state treasury remains drier than the desert of Sonora. Regrettably no federal, or state authority seeks to brake this savage looting, and in the federal Congress any law initiative to modify so unequal circumstance; although we can mention the initiative of law of Francisco Arroyo, current president of the Chamber of deputies that for suspect and bastard reason went to stop in the basket of the garbage of federal laws. Something similar this happening in the state congresses, where the legislators freeze in the face of the power of the barons of the mining. Some not well thought they call “to give them corn” and anointed of money in hand, to this suspect to act. In this circumstance the mentioned “commitment” of the Pact for Mexico the risk runs of not transcending the rhetoric, but meanwhile the local newspaper of “La Jornada” (LJ), in those homes documented these irregularities. The newspaper ‘La Jornada’, it mentioned among their holders with big letters; that the big mining consortia manage the state, “they pay a misery of land’s tax in spite of the multimillionaire earnings that they obtain". It is also denounced that “in the municipality of Vetagrande, mining companies pay 1.3 dollar of land’s tax, while in ‘El Mineral’, the mining PLC Fresnillo; that before Peñoles was, property of Alberto Bailleres that until recently paid 53.33 thousand annual dollars, and at the moment for that tax it covers 320 thousand dollars, when the company has an approximate value of 666.67 million dollars. This information provided by Alma Tapia, and Carlos Navarrete, and poured in the periodic LJ, they add; “at the moment there are six big mining companies in the state that they exploit eight locations with earnings of millions of dollars, and it is little what they delivring to the entity, of there the necessity to have proportional earnings as much the company as the citizens through the taxes that collect its municipalities". If he modifies the law, corporate international as PLC Fresnillo that seems being of Alberto Bailleres, they would pay to the city council of The Mineral, almost 10 million annual dollars (USD) for land’s tax, with what would be beneficiary the town, because the municipalities receive federal participations according to its collection, that is to say, the municipality collects a dollar and the federation sends them three more." In this municipality they have 26 municipalities that have a population that overcomes the million of inhabitants, in their group and that they would have one it spills economic of more than 200 millions of the federal participations, since this money doesn't stay in the country, while to benefit a ton of metal in stone they wear out 3 thousand cubic liters of water, and only in Fresnillo 15 daily tons benefit. In Fresnillo, Zacatecas, surrenders to the corporate PLC Fresnillo, 150 liters of residual water, for what he doesn't find difficult more than will make drinkable to water. Menawhile a lot of people have to live without illumination public, drainage paver the street, and to lack the municipal basic services. During 2011, the main mining consortia have registered considerable increases in their production level, as company Mining Frisco property of Carlos Slim that has two mining projects in these lands: Real de Angeles Coronel, in the municipality of Ojocaliente, and Tayahua Mines, in Mazapil. The company Fresnillo PLC, in 2011, is proprietor of the biggest silver mine in the world, located in that municipality, it registered a gross utility of 860 million dollars, 37.1 percent more than in 2010. But this is only an example, because the corporate one manages many mines more in the entity. Shortly it is said that: they exploit the Zacatecas’ floor in four mining projects it registered a gross utility, among all their extractive complexes, of 2 thousand 230 millions 660 thousand pesos, what generated a growing variation from 2010 to 2011, in this concept of 67.6 percent". While in Mazapil, the Canadian company Goldcorp extracted gold of the ‘Penasquito’ mine with a value of a thousand 144 million dollars, 21.3 percent of the total of revenues that generated this company everything 2011, of the “industrial murderous” supposition German Larrea. This denomination gives it the miners families of the extinct one Pasta de Conchos miner", where it is day that the remains of the Mexican miners have not been extracted – they buried in life and abandoned -, they left on purpose by German Larrea, federal government, and partners. (La Jornada, politica, p. 28, December 21, 2013).