Grupo Mexico, noxious company

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The government falsifies, the decision of the Congress to close the company

Grupo Mexico, noxious company

By: Carlos Damian                                          August 26, 2014

We face another industrial homicide and the government tries to minimize the effects

Mexico. -    The permanent Commission of the Congress of the Union emitted last Wednesday (20/08/14), a I exhort directed to the government of Sonora, and to all the federal secretaries so that the activities of the mine Buenavista of the Copper is suspended, Cananea, operated by Grupo Mexico, as long as the damages are evaluated by the spill of 40 thousand cubic meters of sulfuric acid, in the Sonora and Bacanuchi rivers. Also, the organ legislative urged before SE that it cancels the concession by means of which the referred company operates in this place, demanded that it presents the corresponding penal accusations and it requested to the federal Executive that investigates if the filial company of the Grupo Mexico, it is operating without completing the law, and that it is reimbursed the inhabitants of Sonora for the suffering damages as a consequence of the serious contamination that for 30 years you will anticipate the dangers to attenuate in the area, caused by the spill. The avarice, the corruption and utilities of the company that German Feliciano Larrea Velasco presides over, in this industrial homicide. It is inferred that the control lack, the negligence and supervision caused that it spilled poisons like: cyanide, cadmium, arsenic and several minerals that are dangerous to the human being. Although it is accused to external companies that were giving maintenance service to the filial company, to the spontaneous rain, and to the wrong line of the pool of having leached (since it only has one).    Up to now they have not been investigated neither thoroughly evaluated the effects of this enormous negligence, neither the consequence that unfortunately will have it doesn't only for the fish, the livestock the cultivation lands and the ecology of the area, but in the children, people and families that they live off the agriculture, the fishing or the cattle raising that are also highly dependent in their daily life of the scarce and very valuable water that it runs for the rivers, canals and lagoons. As it is habit of Grupo Mexico, by the way it considered for international diverse organism as one of the ten less ethical companies of the world, it tried to hide the tragedy, it didn't warn but until some days later and that is a cowardice act and of criminal irresponsibility, since many people that use that water for their life found out the disaster later several days. The consequences therefore are unimaginable, since all those chemists are generating of cancer and highly harmful for the health. Mexico and the whole world saw the pictures of fish and dead animals, millions of people have been witness of the environmental tragedy.    Until today, nobody has mentioned at least the health of the human beings that they inhabit that whole region. This serious ecocidy cannot be in the impunity, since Larrea, the shareholders and directive of that company tried to hide it to the public opinion, the same as it happened in February 19 2006 when it exploited the mine of coal of Pasta of Conchos due to the lack of evicting the gas griseous, in the municipality of San Juan de Sabinas, Coahuila, in which 65 workers died and to the fifth day of the disaster the company escaped then with the complicity of the Work’s Ministry of Vicente Fox government, Francisco Javier Salazar, both accomplices of the Grupo Mexico. In accordance with the available information was caused by the reluctant company to observe the regulation measures of labor security and for the authorities’ docility of the Work’s Ministry and Social Forecast (STPS, for their initial in Spanish). In this situation they should be considered guilty of this human and social tragedy to all those that had in their hands the decision of abandoning them to their luck. Cruelly they left abandoned 63 bodies that continue without being rescued by the negligence, the impunity and the cowardice of Larrea Velasco and accomplices until today, but also for the lack of the government's decision to force those to give the face in front of the families and to complete the law.     The government of Sonora State has not taken serious actions to investigate and to punish with the whole weight from the law to this company that everywhere that it operates it takes destruction and death, be in our country, in Peru by means of the signatures Southern Peru Copper Corporation and of the exploitation possible of the mine Tia Mara, as well as in Chile, and still in the own The States, where it exploits the mines Arizona and Texas by means of the subsidiary company, formerly brand it, American Smelting and Refining Company (ASARCO). Up to now the federal government has neither gone to the bottom of this very delicate matter. The Attorney's office of Protection to the environment, for example, among other measures, seemingly it has determined that to prevent another tragedy of this nature, Grupo Mexico should commit to watching the discharges of chemical elements in the rivers during next five years. If this you confirms, it would be as putting to the Church in hands of Luther. The other decision that seems truly unreal and incredible, is to impose a ticket to the Company responsible for this environmental tragedy of a maximum of 20 thousand minimum wages, equivalent to 92 thousand dollars, in contrast with a figure of utilities of this company during the first semester of 2014 of more than 1 million 33 thousand dollars, that is to say you grieve 0.0001 percent of the earnings in the mentioned period.      This company only takes destruction and death  The town of Sonora rejects since to this company when changing name from mining Cananea to Mining Buenavista del Cobre it was able to remove the strike rights and social benefits to the previous inhabitant of this region with the help of the federal force and he had to bring to people unavoidably of outside of Sonora to work in the mine, and now he is forcing people of Sonora and neighboring municipalities to run of this new industrial homicide and Mexican ecocidy.  This ticket is ridiculous, absurd and a jeer for those affected, for that reason surely Grupo Mexico will continue causing contamination. As it has pointed out it the National Union of Miners in different occasions, this new industrial homicide should not be in the impunity and to leave it as an example for the future one and don't happen again. Neither the government from Mexico, neither the Mexicans should remain indifferent because of all the mining groups of the country, Grupo Mexico has in their hands, with the help of concessions of the State the bigger than extension of lands that are property of the nation, under limitless conditions for the use and abuse of their contents. Therefore, this company has become a national threat against the patrimony of the Mexican town. In fact it is a parasitic group formed with the national goods and based on the merciless and shameless exploitation of the workers and their families.   A humanitarian, intelligent decision and attached to the application of the justice it would be to retire the concession to Grupo Mexico of the exploitation of the mine of Buenavista del Cobre, Cananea, or in their case to stop their operations until it is investigated by national organisms and competent and independent outsiders, the reach of this serious criminal negligence. Although our politicians and the federal government you refuse will be prohibited to this company to repeat, as it has always made it, cowardly acts of attacking to the mining union to distract to the opinion publish, national and international this new industrial homicide, like it happened after the tragedy of Pasta de Conchos and as they attempted it last week with the yellow scandal of the supposed red record of the national leader of this national union (NGU).     For years the corporate miner's contempt has been documented for the life of the workers, the population's security and the laws. The provoked environmental disaster is the sample of the managerial irresponsibility. The personal, labor, social and environmental accidents would not be also possible without indolent and accomplices authorities. The case of this company is illustrative of the legal impunity with the one that operate the companies of all gender and the necessity of undertaking juridical modifications guided to correct an aberration, moral people are not since attributable in the law. It would owe the state to disarticulate companies that are for if same dangerous for their workers and consumers, for the society, the economy and the environment. (La Jornada, politica, p.p. 2- 46, August 21, 2014).