The labor violence of the state

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Total impunity to mining companies

The labor violence of the state

By: Carlos Damian                                         September 3, 2014

Group Mexico not faces antecedents very happy", they point out

Mexico. -   The legal representatives of the organization ‘Pasta de Conchos Family’ refuted before the Interamerican Commission of Human Rights (ICHR) that in Mexico, the federal, state and municipal governments have not acted penalty against companies while they have caused the death of hundred of workers for the terrible conditions of security and hygiene of their work centers. In the session that took place in the ICHR of August 11th, 2014; lawyer Rodrigo Olvera Briseno (ROB) it pointed out on behalf of this organization that there are not a single company, directive, investor or representative of the same one that it has been punished penalty by the dozens of workers' industrial crimes that have registered in the sector of the mining of our country from last century. "Both a single manager has been imprisoned by these industrial and very few crimes they are hardly played with minimum sanctions", it indicated. ‘Pasta de Conchos Family’ presented for several years a complaint against the Mexican government before the ICHR, for the case of the 65 dead miners in 2006 and in demand of the rescue of the bodies.  For such a reason it has continued participating in diverse sessions and committees of the organism. This way, in the last session it took advantage of the forum to outline that in the companies while Mexicans, labor violations are not only made against the workers, but also violations of their human rights and it is not only attempted against labor conditions and of union freedom, but against the same life of the miners". “It is a modern slavery", Rodrigo Olvera indicated. Before the ICHR, ROB exposed that companies of the sector, among them preponderantly Grupo Mexico and Penoles, they accumulate more than 600 widows and 140 orphans for the dead workers in its mines. The biggest test of it is it that industrial homicides as that from Pasta de Conchos continue unpunished, as well as the hundred of workers' deaths that were given with posterity.  He underlined that in Mexico a lot of precarious work is creating and without benefits like a modern slavery, and they are constant the violations to the right to the life.     Mining group takes unpunished 20 years: CCI  In fact, we are living inside labor violence, favored by the State, much as municipal, state and  the federal government's instances, so they are in complicity to violate the state of the citizens' right, and to protect the industrial homicide of the human beings, since only they take care of the interests of the transnational companies. Inside the industrial context it is observed in the mining of coal and coppers these violations to the human right. These feudal gentlemen of the mining dominate the regions, the social life and they have a total impunity for the federal government, it proves of it is it that these murderers have not been imprisoned, and they are less still prosecuted. Although they have violated the article 159 of the Semarnat 2011, they have not been able to apply these measures with depth and clarity for the affected population. On the other hand Grupo Mexico's mining activities have caused the livestock death and the infertility of agricultural lands for the emission of pollutants; few cattlemen and farmers dared to denounce it because it was an employment source for their inhabitants, but after the 'homicide industrial' from Pasta de Conchos, in Coahuila, the company hired personal of other states and the economic benefit disappeared.   The cattle raising is the predominant activity in the region; the lands are of fertility land, but the under exploitation of the rivers, as the tributary San Pedro, of which 21 million cubic meters are extracted, when their natural recharge is of 16 millions annual, it has generated a productive crisis. The public land (ejido) 16 de Septiembre suspended the cattle and agricultural activities for lack of water, and the Ignacio Zaragoza and Emiliano Zapata ejido they have problems because they dried off its wells. Before 10 hectares were required by livestock head and now they are needed from 25 to 30 hectares. Rafael Galindo Jaime explains, “for thirty years and more yet we have outlined that they are applied in a rigorous way the norms of environmental protection and a fair compensation is granted by the damages, but few times it has been achieved. Five years ago it was possible to exchange a parcel contaminated for other, but the problem of lands no fertile for the mining is a constant in Ninos Heroes’ ejido. The secretary of Agrarian Action of the Independent Rural Power station (ICS), he says; "A ticket won't solve the problem of the spill; it is necessary to reimburse people, to demand to the company repair for the environmental damage. The Conagua and the Profepa should act with more force", it delimited.     The border ones are not according with the rise to the VAT  The delegate of the Secretary of Agriculture in Sonora, Horacio Huerta, trying to minimize the devastating effects of the industrial pollutants, he said that the 120 samples that were sent to Senasica demonstrated that there neither are not any toxicity element and risk for the 155 thousand livestock heads that are located in the seven affected municipalities, for the 6 thousand agricultural hectares, of which 90 percent is dedicated to the production of forages and the rest for garlic, (La Jornada, Matilde Perez). On the other hand the inhabitants of the north of Mexico don't crack in spite of the quantity of received blows that the Court has just treated them. To these taxpayers they sought protection collectively against the increase to the VAT that went from 11 to 16 percent, but it is stopped because president EPN interposed a complaint resource before the tribunal 15 of district, alleging that the experts that analyzed the presented tests were partial and they agreed with to the border ones with The States, he says the fiscal thing lawyer Adolfo Solis (AS), legal representative of inhabitants no conforms.    About the sentence of the Court and their relationship with the collective habeas corpus, AS says that it analyzed the violation of the principles of tributary justness, reasonability, competitiveness and liberate configuration, contents in the constitutional article 31, “but the habeas corpus takes arguments of another nature, as the tax neutrality, the fiscal collateral, the principle of retroactivity, of artificial security, among other, captured in the articles 1, 6, 25, and 133 of the Constitution. However, it is pointed out that the Judicial Power could also be taken the hands and to leave for the easy road, the approach of nine ministers is for the Legislative's free configuration that is to give a check in white to the Congress". It is possible that the civic consultation for the energy reformation and for many skeptics this is a frank dream, however every day we find in the world these dreams and it is as well as many nations have changed, starting from the social mobilizations with a strong civil organization, with new fight forms you don't force, showing to the electronic and international means international that could not leave the sick environmental with a total ecocidy. Being able to leave the sick environmental with a total ecocidio.  To him attended the reason; let us remember the cases of Nelson Mandela, and of the plebiscite that allowed the Chileans to make to a government that maintained in the death and the terror during 18 years with Augusto Pinochet to this illegitimate government's head and murder state.  (La Jornada, politica, p. 5-6, August 27, 2014).