Miners robbery

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People of the PRI and state police impede observers' mission in Zacualpan, Cabbage..

Miners robbery

By: Carlos Damian                                                      March 6, 2015

Excellon Resources avoids responsibility, environmental and civil in Durango

México. -   The mining Canadian Excellon Resources, with headquarters in Toronto Canada, it has tried to avoid their civil, environmental and labor responsibility with the neighbors’ rural community to the location La Platosa, in Durango, after violating a lease contract and the work conditions, with the support of Canadian diplomats. It gave to know the Alert Miner Canada organization. In a report based on documents of the Ministry of External Matters, Trade and Development of Canada and supported by organizations Mining Alert Canada and United Steelworkers, it denounced the violation of labor and environmental norms in Durango, in an analysis of 250 pages elaborated starting from that happened in La Platosa from half-filled of 2012. "The Canadian government's information reveals back of the embassy from Canada to the abuses of the mining one in Mexico". For example, between July and November of 2012 “the conflict and the repression” were intensified against inhabitants of the towns of Bermejillo, Tlahualillo (La Sierrita) and Mapimi, Durango. According to the report, members of the public land La Sierrita and workers of the section 309 of the mining union in La Platosa carried out a peaceful protest during several months, after prefixing formal complaints in Canada for serious violations to the human rights and the environmental norms, “without result."  The leader is ignored but they retain the spring  Now it is known that in spite of these complaints and that Excellon refused to dialogue, “the embassy of Canada shared with the company information picked up between community’s land men (ejidatarios) and its lawyers without consent of them, while it helped to create relationships with the high spheres, what took to the repression of the protest. "The internal documents that were examined don't show evidence some that Canada will foment in the companies a responsible and respectful behavior of the international standards, like it usually affirms that it is its politics", it sustains the report. "The unilateral support of the embassy of Canada to Excellon is a clear example of the promotion of the interests of the companies that the Canadian government carries out to the communities and the workers' against". The most serious thing Ken Neumann highlights, it is that a commercial delegate was the so much of a meeting among the police, the Army and the Mexican government's authorities to drift mine’s evacuating the protest and one night before expressed its good desires to the company. "The indifference that the embassy seems to demonstrate toward the security of the demonstrators in a country where too many times it is murdered defenders of the human rights, journalists and community leaders it is hideous", they conclude the organizations before mentioned.     Forty members of the PRI stopped the step to the community of Zacualpan, Colima to prevent to an international cortege of human rights to observe the conditions in that it is the community Nahuatl, confronted from the arrival of the international mining consortium Gabfer SA de CV that looks for to exploit gold and platinum to open sky. The group also plans to inspect the Eye of water spa, busy from December 28 gone by Carlos Guzman Teodoro group, former president of communal goods, deprived of your charge by most of the inhabitants of the community Nahuatl, to support the installation of the mine that, according to people disconfirm, it will contaminate the spring that supplies to the conurbation area Colima-Villa de Alvarez, inhabited for but of 300 thousand people. Jennifer Moore, coordinator of the program for Latin America of Alert Mining Canada, accused to the communards of filiation PRI political, linked Guzman, of impeding the work of the national and international mission of observation on the case Zacualpan and he pointed out that the patrol car 1401 of the state police supported the stopper, in spite of the fact that it constitutes a crime.     They close deposit in Sinaloa  Moore remembered that in November of 2014 the indigenous community deprived Guzman in a “peaceful, with papers of civil servant” assembly and “recognized by the authorities. Therefore, their group already lost all its privileges". In spite of they retain it the spring Eye of water and with the stopper “they now seek to impose its will with support of the state police". In an official statement, Moore noticed that the impunity of the group of Guzman and the omission of the authorities could unchain bigger violence, means and national social and political actors and outsiders have noticed in insistent way that not to apply the law could derive in more violence, with serious consequences it for indigenous population and for federal, state and municipal governments. However the hitters of the PRI “insist on scaring the population and for we request it to the authorities that the security of the mission is and of the community guaranteed."       The Profepa closed a mine temporarily in the town El Nuevo Placer, near the community of La Noria, municipality of Mazatlan, when detecting damages to the vegetation. The mine doesn't have authorizations of environmental impact and it doesn’t change use of forest lands, the Profepa informed in a bulletin. The federal organization didn't give to know the name of the company that exploits gold and silver to open cut and it lacks plant of benefit. It was detected elimination of natural species and damages to mauto vegetal, stick of Brazil, white stick due to the use of band tractors and excavators in 30 thousand square meters. The Profepa ordered by the middle of passed December the suspension of activities of the mining Paradox Xingye, located in the municipality of Choix, after the spill of about 700 cubic meters of muddy waters for the rupture of a container of residual waters. On October of 2014, in the municipality of Concord, the mine Dos Señores, located near the stream Chupaderos that ends in the river Presidio, it poured some 10 thousand 800 tons of toxic residuals to the water, affecting productive activities and the readiness for human consumption.   Peso collapses The national currency ‘peso’ left to a deep well on Friday (06/03/15) and the dollar was for sale in bank window at $15.80. It is the worst rate in the history of the country, and our currency has lost a fifth part of its value in so far in the EPN’s six years, and the reflection is that the dollar is very strong.  It already recovered the employment in The States, president Obama has been a magician of the economy. March 9, 2009 had registered the biggest fall: 15.69 pesos for dollar. The explanation that the authorities of Mexico gave it was that it walked bad the economy of The States, the government was in roads of rescuing to his banks and car’s companies and president Bush didn't know neither how much they added two and two. Moral: if the economy of The States bad walks, the peso is devaluated, and if it walks well, same it is devaluated. Somebody negative has been in the scenario in these two crises: Agustin Carstens (with nickname flue). It stays there because it doesn't give positive results and let us see this character's data. It was to the service of PAN, and in Treasury it diagnosed that the American crisis would not produce Mexico a flue. As he didn't give good been now we have it as governor of the Bank of Mexico with the PRI in the power, and both: Felipe Calderon and Enrique Peña Nieto share the doubtful merit that they have registered the biggest devaluations in the country. From 2006 for Treasury four characters have paraded: the already mentioned Carstens, Ernesto Cordero, Jose A. Meade and Luis Videgaray in the current one.  (La Jornada, politica, p.p. 6-10, March 2, 2015).