Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Siffredi E Lilli Carati

Indigenous march vigorously for Water and Life - Caracas, March 31, 2005


CHAVEZ RECEIVED NO INDIANS!

  • Miraflores officials claimed that they had fulfilled the prerequisite of hearing request to the President, and also that prior commitments prevented him from their care.
  • Instead of Chavez, the representative committee agreed to meet with Vice Admiral Torcatt Luis Alfredo Sanabria, head of the Office of the President and other officials of Miraflores.
  • After the interview the representative of the march were satisfied with the outcome of the talks.


The stubborn march had been called under the sole criterion that "the only one who could decide to repeal the coal concessions in the Sierra de Perija, which is indigenous interests Chavez is with him that we want to talk. "

On the morning of March 31 Plaza Morelos Caracas overflowing enthusiasm. Early had begun to reach indigenous delegations, and in the street could be heard from the speakers to Aboriginal leaders who vigorously denounced the threats of coal mining in different languages, as dozens of video and photo cameras were besieging them, mostly from alternative media and activists. The general comment was that this would break up history into two periods, this new period could signal the emergence of indigenous movements in the Venezuelan revolution. Even, some wondered about his affinity with the Zapatista movement.

Homo et Natura AMNCLA, Collective Anpa, Americas Project, April 13 Movement, National Peasant Front Ezequiel Zamora, Aipo, Bolivarian Association of Lawyers of People's Power Promoters, Asocbariven, Cachirí Wayuu communities were the main organizations that convened the march. These organizations were noted in a statement whose headline that read: "THE REVOLUTION COME NO COAL and demands that the government modify its policy on coal."




two banners with the slogans "No coal - SI A LA VIDA - AFFECTED BY THE CARBON OF Guasare" and "in La Guajira and Perija Musiú NOT HAVE THE LAND" led the march.

During the tour, shouted slogans in different indigenous languages, and of course, in Castilian. The Wayuu, Bari and the Yukpa, along with environmental groups Creoles clung to huge canvases painted with signs alluding to the fight against coal in the Sierra de Perija and demanded the repeal of the mining concessions, also appeared slogans against mining in the Sierra de Imataca. At the head of two large banners dominate the tip of the human stream passing of two thousand people, one said "in La Guajira and Perija Musiú NOT HAVE THE LAND" and the other "NO CARBON - SI A LA VIDA - Affected by Guasare coal. " Noted could surprise in the public passer, he wondered if perhaps it was not true that the Indians were satisfied with the awards made by the Bolivarian process. Leading the march was always Angela Gonzalez, leader of Cachirí Wuayuú, who encouraged aguerridamente mobilization at all times.




National Guard interrupted the indigenous demonstration and environmentalist
Carmelite Corner. From there
people veered Miraflores side access.

Then came the march to Miraflores, was tackled by a squad of National Guard at the height of the corner of the Carmelites. Hence the mass protesters went to a side entrance of the palace they call the "alcabala 5", where about 700 indigenous and environmentalists were posted with the intent to press for Chávez came out to greet them. The act culture that had been scheduled to be held very close to Miraflores, against Liceo Fermin Toro, was not carried out. Most of the protesters from Caracas and other parts of the country, excluding the zulia, only came to that part of Miraflores, and stayed there mostly indigenous protesters and activists from the Zulia.

slogans were shouted for several hours, demanding that Chavez attend all Indians, repeal the coal concessions CORPOZULIA delivered by the Sierra de Perija and out to meet with the Indians. In this there were some moments of concern and fear that arise a confrontation.

In the afternoon, when the march had been arrested by the military cordon, entered a commission to Miraflores, representatives of the Wayuu, Bari and Yukpa, and some non-indigenous leaders, including Lusbi Homo et Natura Portillo and Juan Carlos De la Rosa News Agencies of the People (NAFA), both wearing hats Wayuu. Along with them also participated Elpidio Gonzalez. Outside, the crowd stayed on condition that "if Chavez did not leave, there would wake." Long time after, he left the commission saying that he was told Vice Admiral Torcatt that "the interview was not with him, but Chavez himself ..." and left visibly determined not to accept anything.

Later, the commission re-entered. Finally, the same commission Torcatt accepted as a partner. The interview with the President, did not happen.

Leaving the meeting, Portillo Lusbi Homo et Natura, acted as spokesman for the natives and reported that "there was much sincerity in the meeting." He explained, inter alia, that the interview was videotaped and were promised that the tape was to be seen by Chavez. There was joy and tone Lusbi Portillo's speech was a victory achieved by the march. The President would meet the demands of indigenous peoples and environmentalists "deferred" ...


Leaving MIraflores, Lusbi
Portillo was the spokesman for the Indians
and explained the scope of the interview with Torcatt.
"There was a lot of sincerity in the meeting," he said.

Amncla later said that the meeting was agreed to open a dialogue between communities affected indigenous and Miraflores, based on the following agenda items:

- Cancellation of coal concessions in the Sierra de Perija (from Rio de Oro to Socuy).

- Hearing of the indigenous and social organizations with President Chávez .- Interview of indigenous representatives for not providing mediation .- demarcation of indigenous territories Perija and La Guajira.

- Letters indigenous agricultural farmers Mara.

- Compensation for workers and residents near the mines and the lives of patients with pneumoconiosis .- Review of the case of concessions granted to Socuy River Brazilians (the natives call for cancellation).

- immediate cessation of the exploration of transnational .- Send inspection committee of the Presidency of the Republic to the affected communities.

The delegation of the Bolivarian Front of People Affected by Coal Exploitation in
Guasare River basin successfully integrated the commission went to Miraflores, where the leader Wuayuú Alejandro Urdaneta, a former mine worker, seriously ill himself by unhealthy work of Guasare coal mining and peasant leader of the community most affected by mines in the Paso Diablo and Mina Norte, persuaded Juan Carlos De la Rosa was requires the participation of those affected by mining disaster Guasare area.

The letter that the Bolivarian Front of People Affected by Coal Exploitation delivered in Miraflores, letterhead and bears the following text:




Bolivarian Front of Affected by coal mining in Guasare River Basin.

Guasare River Basin, March 31, 2005 Citizen

Hugo Chavez Frias

President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Palacio de Miraflores

Caracas

Very Dear Compatriot:

Above all we wish to express our greetings Bolivariano reiterate the deep trust we placed in you
We are part of that eighty percent of Venezuelans living in extreme poverty hopeful revolutionary changes aimed at achieving social and participatory democracy, which seeks to, as you encourage us with their fair words, to "make it impossible to imperceptible violation of human rights violation that has been perpetrated by the richer to the detriment of poorer and poorer. The economic arrogance prevents them get justice, the common men and women who have been stripped of almost all the possibilities of personal initiative and responsibility and drag to live in conditions of life, work, unemployment and abysmal poverty, unworthy of the human person "(his letter to the Supreme Court in 1999).

Compatriot President, we want you to know our specific situation regarding with the consequences of coal mining in the mines of Guasare has brought to our Aboriginal communities from the moment they began to be exploited, until today, and reveal the true information of abandonment that we are undergoing in our current situation.

has officially said that farmers in this area have been incorporated into social programs and community care, and also maintaining a close cooperation with our neighborhood associations, with communities and people in general. It is also said to be carried out strict environmental control programs to prevent land and water pollution, and prevent impairment of health of our communities.
Serve this communication, appreciated President, to reveal that none of this applies to our case, that the rural communities of New Matera, El Paso, Manuelote, Cantalosgallos, Playa Bonita-The Mecocal, and The passion fruit, itself adjacent populations Guasare mines directly experience the effects of social exclusion and direct pollution caused by mining operations. During all these years until today, are part of a story of frustration and total neglect, characterized by dry rivers or intoxicated, unhealthy atmosphere, illness and death of miners, malnutrition, illiteracy, children without schools and without medical care, unemployment and destruction of our way of life, landless Indians, in short, social and environmental fraud expressed in The reduction of the quality of life and existence worthy of us, mostly indigenous in a very foreign to those specified in Article 299 of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

Compatriot President, none of it belongs to the Humanist Bolivarian Revolution built for the needs of human beings we dream together with you and where you are accompanying to the end. We want to reach the indigenous revolution Guasare. To achieve this goal we propose our control program to enforce our constitutional rights:

Wrestling Plan Bolivarian Front of People Affected by Coal Exploitation in Guasare River Basin

1) We demand an environmental study, sociocultural and epidemiological study to determine the real consequences of coal mining on our health, environment and lifestyle.
2) Creation of a Medical Clinic and Mission Barrio Adentro for communities affected by coal mining.
3) Development of a co-operative process, counseling, and provision of land and credit, respectful of our cultural traits Aborigines.
4) A Plan for Control of pollution caused by coal mining, which recognizes the social control and farmer participation in environmental protection work.
5) School of Bolivarian Schools Program.
6) popular Transportation Program.
7) Water Supply Program, drinking water and irrigation.

Finally, we wish to inform you that we are in solidarity with the struggle of indigenous brothers Bari, Yucpa and Wayuu, inhabitants of the Sierra de Perija those who refuse to suffer the same consequences of coal mining that we have suffered for 17 years continued in the area of \u200b\u200bthe Guasare coal.

are the signatures of the presidents of neighborhood associations in the communities adjacent to the mine Paso Diablo and Mina Norte.

Received and signed by the V / A Torcatt Luis Alfredo Sanabria at the Palace of Miraflores.

Saturday, March 26, 2005

My Smoke Detector Keeps Beeping

Second Meeting was held with the Rural Communities of Guasare

organized by the Bolivarian Front of People Affected by Coal Exploitation in Guasare River Basin and the National Front for the Defense of Water and Life meeting was held with affected communities for coal in the basin of Rio Guasare.

Farmers demanding social and environmental liabilities owed by transnational corporations and Carbozulia to have caused the displacement and exclusion of the Wayuu communities of agricultural areas that were previously intended for coal extraction. These rural communities are neglected, while seeking to extend the mining operation without making a reliable assessment of the harmful social and environmental effects of this activity. By contrast, for the President of CORPOZULIA-Carbozulia, exploitation of coal in the Guasare is a model for social and environmental benefits: "The new model Guasare has been so positive that we are optimizing it to develop mining Socuy in the municipality Mara, a project which is in talks with the Brazilian company "Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD). It is emphasized that the mining "includes starring communities from the municipalities to cooperatives and people in general benefit from the management." (Panodi, March 25, 2005).

On March 20 representatives met peasants of El Paso, New Matera, Manuelote, and El Olivo with members and friends of the National Front for the Defense of Water and Life, who gave evidence of neglect and exclusion caused by 17 years of mining in the Guasare.
On Sunday 20 March was the second encounter with the peasant communities have their habitat in the Guasare River Basin, adjacent to the Coal Mine named Paso Diablo and Mina Norte, made with the idea of \u200b\u200bcoexistence and cooperation among the people of the city and the rural communities mostly belong to the Wayuu ethnic group, where members communities of El Paso, New Matera, Manuelote, Mecocal and El Olivo, met with various social organizations and personalities Zulia Maracaibo and other communities to share an alert and mobilization to the destructive effects of coal mining has brought for years to human individuals, the natural environment and traditional lifestyle of the communities in the northern part of the Sierra de Perija. With regard to water, Marquez said that these people live between two rivers and two reservoirs and yet live in a desert, for those living in the basin, do not get even a drop of water. "We do not produce food for lack of water."
At this meeting, members of the communities surrounding the coal mines reiterated her testimony about the state of abandonment and exclusion that are, along with the deplorable chronic pollution that coal mining has imposed. This reveals the false version of CORPOZULIA and transnational operators that aims to demonstrate that the monetary resources obtained from coal have benefited farmers without causing damage to health and the environment.
Thanks to the first meeting held 14 days ago (03/06/2005), which became known about 17 years ago, when it began the occupation of land by CORPOZULIA, they are now mining, farming families. evacuees were filled with hope and hope with the promise of improving their economic status: they were offered jobs at the mine, farmlands, loans, schools, roads, clinics, electricity, etc.



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Unfortunately, we found that these communities are among the most neglected in the region, highlighting its proximity to the "empire of wealth" that some suppose because of the location of these communities just between two mines, watching daily impoverishment and disease that leads to the mining of coal. We have further found that because of current coal production reaching 8 million tons annually, the Guasare River has been destroying its main channels. In addition, biologists from the University of Zulia have observed that the biodiversity that characterized the area has suffered a dangerous threat because of the enormous collapse habitat and pollution caused by coal extracted during almost two decades.

This assembly was made popular in the community of New Matera, where its leaders and those in El Paso, El Mecocal, El Olivo, and Manuelote were accompanied by about eighty members from the towns mentioned, who reported new testimony about the hardships and consequences of mining development brought implanted in your area. In addition to reiterating that the new witnesses were about the neglect and pollution of soils and rivers, and revealing new aspects emerged that surprised by his harshness and no less alarming in character. Just to mention two cases impressive is the story of the family of Mary C., in which herd kids born with congenital malformations, one of which we photographed (see chart), and the case of Romelia Gonzalez, a resident of El Paso, who account for consuming fish from the river, had diarrhea and vomiting, and their children have been prevented from using the pipe to bathe, because to do so would appear rash. On the other hand, reiterated statements that the same is the residents' drinking water, as we had heard at the School of El Paso, last Friday 11 March.
Among the complaints from neighborhood leaders Guasare Basin, also highlighted the cases raised by Lesbia Sanchez Manuelote Community and Aurelio Avilez of the community of El Olivo. Ms. Sanchez reported the amazing disparity of living near the dam which supplies water Manuelote the city of Maracaibo, while their small town is experiencing a severe drought and water shortage for residents. For its part, denounced Avilez amazement a huge oil spill three oil wells, covering over a thousand hectares, affecting lands and dams, which has lasted for over five months in the town of San Felipe del Guasare without attention has been paid to the ecological disaster that means, including, he noted that intimidates farmers who dare to complain about the damage that this spill is ocasonando. The large spill thousands of barrels of oil threatens the water bodies of rivers, because when the rains come, oil will go to the rivers and streams in the region.

Participants from the city of Maracaibo came to about fifty members of various organizations, which can be counted: Zeta Channel, Global TV, BBC (London), Light FM, Students and Teachers at the University of Zulia (School of Philosophy, School of Sociology, School of Social Work, School of Social Communication, School of Administration and Anthropology Unit, Faculty of Science).
In these assemblies have developed workshops to develop a program of social and environmental fight this to the authorities a list of demands which seeks to settle the debt compliance and environmental health has made to date the exploitation of coal in these communities and prevent further environmental damage, in addition to preserving controbuir Tule reservoirs and Manuelote who feel threatened by mining.
George Hines, Head of Communications
Tel: 0261-7364395
Maracaibo, March 26, 2005

Sunday, March 13, 2005

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Bolivarian Front was formed of people affected by coal mining in the basin of Rio Nuevo

Text: Jorge Hinestroza, National Front for the Defense of Water and Life




Indigenous to require the payment of social and environmental liabilities owed by transnational coal and the Venezuelan state

to The National Front for the Defense of Water and Life will support the indigenous struggle from the cities. Teachers and UVB light are scientific and social support in this fight.

to attend the march scheduled to visit President Chavez, March 31 inst.


In a meeting held Sunday 6 March, the Presidents of the Neighborhood Association of Peasant Communities Matera Nueva, El Paso, Playa Bonita-The Mecocal, Manuelote, Cantalosgallos, and passion fruit, adjacent to the Paso Diablo Coal Mine and North Mine, the richest Venezuelan reservoirs coal, decided to form a fighting unit block called Bolivarian Front of People Affected by Coal Exploitation in Guasare River Basin to demand payment of social and environmental liabilities owed by these companies to have caused the displacement and exclusion of the Wayuu formerly agricultural areas that were intended for coal mining for 17 years, which adds environmental debt caused by environmental and health damage that mining has caused to ecosystems and people through the most heinous of mining procedures: open pit methods. The above mines are operated by joint ventures Carbones del Guasare, SA and Carbones de la Guajira, SA, the Venezuelan state and transnational Inter-American Coal Anglo American Coal, and Rag Coal International. On Friday 11 the specific reference to the decision and created an organization of communities surrounding the coal mines will soon issue a public manifesto on their propçósitos and scope.

Community leaders Alejandro Urdaneta, Mauritius Bracho, Ciro Torres, Isbelia Palmar, Lesbia and Beatriz Nava Sanchez, agreed to meet once and for all the offers made by the coal industry two decades ago, when farm families expelled from their land under the pretext that they would be used for generate wealth for the country, instead offering algóún money, land, housing, roads, jobs, loans, schools, dispensaries, etc., when in reality, these communities attended a history of frustration and total neglect, characterized by dry rivers or intoxicated, unhealthy atmosphere, illness and death of miners, malnutrition, illiteracy, children without schools and without medical care, unemployment and destruction lifestyle agro-pastoral, landless Indians, in short, social and environmental fraud expressed in the alarming reduction in the quality of life and existence worthy of Venezuela's indigenous people, in violation specified in Article 299 of the Constitution the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (*)

are witnesses and participants of this meeting two dozen members, friends and allies of the National Front for the Defense of Water and Life, including Angely Garcia, Virginia Nuñez, Ingrid Escalante, Mary Ana Maria Bracho and Castilian, H2O Project participants of the School of Social Work (LUZ), also Sgt. Carrero Ramon Community Front representative Bolivarian Dream of Bolivar "of Maracaibo, the students of Sociology (LUZ), Jose Soto, Andreina Gonzalez, and Leidy Chacon Skarlet Delgado, Alfredo Leal and Finol Patrik School of Social Communication (LUZ), in addition, Dr. Elio Rios, coordinator of Environmentalists of Zulia (BLUE). In addition, Carlos Heredia, Francisco Pereira Anamery Arrieta and members of "Mission Guevara" and George Hines, the Environmental Federation of Zulia. Other members of the National Front for Water and Life engaged in various support areas, such as teachers of the Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela and Universidad del Zulia, Maracaibo headquarters, where staff members de sendas universidades se han pronunciado en favor de preservar la Sierra de Perijá amenazada por la explotación del Carbón.

Ante los nuevos bríos de los planes de expansión que pretenden llevar de 8 a 40 millones de toneladas métricas anuales la producción de carbón en la misma Cuenca del Guasare y la apertura de nuevas minas en la Cuenca del Rio Cachirí, las comunidades unidas Frente Bolivariano de Afectados por la Explotación del Carbón en la Cuenca del Rio Guasare, se aprestan para denunciar al país y al mundo, la calamidad que ha significado la explotación del carbón para estas comunidades, con el propósito de evitar males mayores, especialmente en las zonas de Cachirí, donde many of the peasants Wuayuú were in search of new land and shelter to give continuity to its long history of internal development that seeks to excel in the new Bolivarian social processes in hope of social redemption, as has been advocated by President Hugo Chavez Frias . "Previously, the Wayuu word was scorned and ignored. Now, thanks to President Chavez, the voice of the Wayuu will be heard. "Said Rita Gonzalez, indigenous Wayuu of El Paso.

In popular assembly, Guasare indigenous communities along with members of the National Front for the Defense of Water and Life decided to accompany his brothers to wayúu of Cachirí Miraflores March 31 to demand the repeal of new coal concessions given by CORPOZULIA, Cachirí Area, where he now plans to repeat the history of displacement of farmers and growers who live and work in the area to be exploited with the same mining method of "open pit causing a high social impact and environmental consequences of pollution, disease and death, loss of biodiversity and water resources vital to the state of Zulia.

For the National Front for the Defense of Water and Life, the struggle of Aboriginal communities, both in the area and affected Guasare and Cachirí area which seeks to exploit new coal mines, are crucial for water fights and life in Zulia, considering not only the threat of intervention Cachirí riverbeds, Socuy and Guasare, carrying water and Tule reservoirs and aqueduct Manuelote Maracaibo but also a warning voice to populations affected by pollution caused by the spreading of coal dust along the roads leading from the mines to shipping ports on the pollution of Lake Maracaibo, and globally, the use of coal, emission source of greenhouse gases and their impact on global climate chaos, with no Kyoto Protocol.

Monday, February 28, 2005

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Guasare ecological disaster A cause Carbozulia

reported a spill of more than one hundred thousand liters of diesel oil

New Carbozulia cause ecological disaster by spilling some cases 20 thousand liters of diesel fuel than they are today to the Rio Socuy


Wayuu communities reported that large areas remain contaminated which killed many farm animals, in spite of which the company suspended work collection of contaminated materials and dead animals such as fish, alligators, etc. (Photo J. Hines)


The environmental incident occurs at a time when CORPOZULIA announces the production of 100 million tonnes in agreement with the company Vale do Rio Doce of Brazil resulted in the company CARBOSURAMERICA. An accidental spill of the waste lagoon company Carbones del Guasare caused a fish kill, cattle and goats in peasant farms adjacent to the coal mine Paso del Diablo to the west of Venezuela, affecting rural families living on Wuayuú husbandry and agriculture. "It is not the first time that there is contamination, the lagoons where waste coal company launches its derivatives of hydrocarbons and other poisonous compounds overflows every time it rains hard, but this time say it was an accident (...) He said Alejandro Urdaneta, President of the Association of Residents of New Matera community.


hundred yards down the river before we could feel the pungent smell of fuel
. (Photo J. Hines)


" Since the arrival of coal companies began rivers to decompose, many pipes are dry, and for some time now, and we can not fish to feed our families, because eating these fish is like trying kerosene "and there are fewer fish in the streams .... "

Mauritius Palmar, leader of the Association of Residents of El Paso, in a nearby community, corroborates Urdaneta, and he said the company Carbones del Guasare engaged several unemployed place to "clean up" the barrel, and yet not has finished paying personnel. "They picked up some contaminated material from the edge of the pipe, put a" membrane absorber 'to collect oil, which soon became saturated and still remains in the river, while the toxic elements are running toward the Rio Socuy, and Lake Maracaibo , via Rio Limon "(...)

Mauricio Alejandro Urdaneta and
Palmar Representatives
New Matera communities and El Paso, respectively
(Photo J. Hines)


For her part, Teresa González, Wuayuú breeder said that "when my cows came to drink water in the pipe, two of my cows that aborted, and some goats have died and others were sad and shoving. "I was not the only injured, also died goats, sheep, goats and others. Other farmers lost animals that drank water in the pipe (...) It was pitiful the amount of lost fish, the mortality of alligators and other forest animals such as iguanas, dead. "

Farmers took us to a spout near El Paso, where he reported that the Coal Company (Carbozulia) together with the Ministry of Environment, to work forward on 17 February with a group of unemployed hired to collect fish and other dead animals and material spills and impregnated pipe, about 15 kilometers from the mine , derrame.Unos birthplace of one hundred meters down the river before we could receive a pervasive smell of diesel, and upon arrival, observed a wide film que se formaba persistentemente en la superficie del rio la típica película iridiscente que delata la presencia de hidrocarburos, después de un mes del derrame. En el caño estuvimos aproximadamente una hora recibiendo los testimonios, tomando fotografias y filmando el desdichado fenómeno.El agua de este caño fluye hacia el Guasare ubicado a unos 3 km de allí y finalmente van a parar al Lago de Maracaibo, vía Rio Limón.”



Observese la iridiscencia típica de la presencia de hidrocarburos
en el agua. (Foto J. HInestroza)

Según las declaraciones recogidas for us among the peasants, the coal company were informed that on 3 January this year there was an accidental release of 20,000 liters of diesel (gas oil) from the waste pond located in the vicinity of the Paso del Diablo Mine. They also claim to know the real number of the spill reaches 120 thousand liters of diesel. It was known at that lagoon waste is thrown all kinds of toxic materials and waste mineral fuels, lubricants, detergents, chemicals, etc.

La Mina "Paso Diablo coal mine is operated by Carbones del Guasare, SA Carbozulia owned in partnership with Anglo American plc, and RAG Group (*), under a grant covering 14,749.67 hectares, located 83 Km from Maracaibo. Is operated with the bloody art of "open pit bringing devastating consequences for the ecosystem and affecting the Guasare River, one of the most important tributaries of the basin of Lake Maracaibo, located in the municipality Mara.

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Teresa: "My pregnant cows aborted after drinking tap water"
(Photo J. Hines)

This information was gathered during a visit by the National Front for the Defense of Water and Life, made Friday February 25, 2005, the cities of Matera and the New Paso, where they were Tech Sgt (R) Ramon Carrero, Prof (Light) George Hines, Prof. (Light) Hector Arciniegas, and Max Pugh, a journalist with the BBC in London, who met with many farmers Wayuu the above communities about 10 miles from the coal mine "Paso Diablo" in the vicinity of the recent environmental disaster.

Our final comments you want to call this situation the Bolivarian government thinking about the proposal to raise production in the Sierra de Perija. The exploitation of coal deposits of Cachirí, from where the Guasare Rios, Socuy and Cachirí, which flow to Manuelote Tule reservoirs and threaten the vital liquid of Maracaibo and the surrounding towns, leading to displacement of farmers Wayuu located in new areas of coal concessions, as well as it did from the outset precisely the area about 17 years ago Guasare . Only Caño Seco Coal Company intends to use millions of gallons of water from rivers Socuy Maché Cachirí and Cano, as recorded in the Ministry of Environment, and to exploit the coal will be necessary to divert rivers, to discover and blow up the mantle emerging coal
beneath these waters.




(*) Both RAG Carbozulia Anglo American partners have a known record of problems which have developed mining projects, such as the disaster of miners killed and injured in the Willow Creek mine (July 2000) by RAG American (Helper, Utah) that led to the closure of the mine. In South Africa, Anglo-American was one of the pillars of the apartheid, and faced massive labor disputes in the mines for 70 and 80. Southern Peru, the Anglo press to increase copper production by dint of risk Quellaveco depletion of aquifers is very dry region of Peru, alarming especially in rural farming community. Anglo, in turn, provides new jobs.
Statements: Jorge Hinestroza, Arciniegas Hector and Ramon Carrero, by the National Front for the Defense of Water and Life. Address Calle Carabobo, No. 7-14, Maracaibo. VENEZUELA.




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Thursday, February 24, 2005

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Barí respond to the aggression of transnational Transnational coal

URGENT CALL FOR SOLIDARITY
Barí Communities respond to the aggression of invading its transnational terrtorio
By: ANPA / news
Village
Posted on Wednesday, 02/23/2005 11:01 pm

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Barí indigenous communities have dismantled the facilities of the transnational Carbones de Perija, which invaded its territory two days , covered in some trade-offs the Ministry of Energy and Mines granted to these individuals in ancestral territory Bari, last year. Bari
Warriors in their communities mandate partially damaged machinery and retaining a gang member invasive dirtectivo pending supensión agree on a measure of these invasions and an agreement to respect their territory.
The National Army moves into the conflict zone in the afternoon, located in a wooded area difficult to access in the south of the Perijá.
We call on the authorities to hold an attitude of balance into consideration when facing the country and in consideration of the prevalence contitucional the rights of indigenous communities.
The Bari people has been one of the most heroic of indigenous resistance in our continent, it is appalling that the most recent and final chapter of outrages is written at this time.
For over 20 years, these communities play their survival in the coal mine plan around the foothills of the Sierra de Perija last land of the nation Bari, is a long struggle of 500 years where the Bari have been able to sustain the spirit of rebellion against the invaders of all ilk. The English, ranchers, oil and now the transnational corporations from the coal.

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Sunday 20 February, the coal company, Carbones de Perija, transnational Chilean capital, decided to enter with heavy machinery, in Indian territory Bari, in the Sierra de Perija, in the vicinity of the indigenous community of Boksi BARI, located in the southernmost foothills of the mountain to start the scanning process into 2 lots of concessions granted last year by the Venezuelan state in Official Gazette No. 37965 of July 22, 2004. These lots were designated as Guaracuya I and II, covering 12,069 hectares, and are granted under the corporate responsibility and Alvaro Quiroga María Victoria Güell, both Chilean citizens. Yet know the shareholding structure of coals Perijá. The Barí For decades claim territory formally Perijá saw such request based on a self-demarcation process covered by the new law on demarcation of indigenous terrtorios and the Bolivarian Constitution has been formally renewed by the representatives of these communities before the committee demarcation. The People Bari has held a historic fight for these territories, the last that will remain after the wars against the English Resistance, farmers and transnational oil companies and opposed by more than twenty years coal mining on their land. Paradoxically, after the adoption of the new constitutional order terrtorialidad widely protecting indigenous peoples have been granted these new concessions were renewed expectations of exploitation of this mineral in the Sierra de Perija. Warriors Bachichita communities, Karañakaek, Saimadoye, Bocksi, among others, are moving from yesterday to demand the immediate withdrawal of the invaders of their land. And demand that the central government to intervene on behalf of their rights, not the interests of the transnational unconstitutional. This grant is part of a chain of coal exploitation Concessions covering the whole of the Sierra piuedemonte Perijá, from Rio de Oro to the mountains of the peninsula Oca Guajira, just above the major river basins and water reservoirs of the western basin of Lake Maracaibo. This is an old plan inherited from the 4th republic, towards a notion of development which has the preservation of biodiversity, water resources, indigenous rights, away from any notion of sovereignty in the current geopolitical of the Andean subregion and that removes any structural possibility of doing justice to the humble masses of this region. Several social organizations, indigenous and environmental organizations, argues the unconstitutionality of the plan, which inexplicably seems to have risen over the past four years.

Tuesday, February 22, 2005

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Wednesday, February 16, 2005

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A Cachirí! (*)

This Saturday 19 to 6:30 in the morning, we will be in the waiting room of the Passenger Terminal Maracaibo trip participants Cachirí area. We will visit the place of new coal concessions that threaten watersheds watersheds inhabited by the Wayuu communities and come into the reservoirs that feed the Maracaibo and other poblaciones.Se maintains the original purpose of direct contact and committed to the rivers, forests, and loved living there and fight for Water and Life. The meeting with Angela Gonzalez, Wayuu leader in the area seems unlikely, due to prior commitments acquired in the struggle. Although the proposed meeting with indigenous leaders known is very important, on the other hand, is very valuable to take the presence and direct contact through one's senses in the Sierra de Perija threatened by coal in the search for an authentic experience personal commitment to our source of life.

Jorge Hinestroza-Communications Officer

Members of the Front in other regions of Venezuela: J. Hines to call tel. 0261-7364395, 9 pm to 11 pm.

Recommendations and suggestions for the trip

Prepare for hike likely 3 or 4 hours.
Bring: Comfortable clothes

non-slip shoes or tires (grip-pattern). Morral

mosquito repellent. Chinchorro
or tent / sleeping bag. Sunscreen
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Chambers (photo or video). Drinking water or moisturizer
(type "Gatorade") Edible
energy (chocolate, caramel)
Fiber-rich foods, cereals, peanuts, granola.
Spaghetti, Salt, arepas, rice, tuna.


-------------------------------------- (*) of meetings 12 and February 15 of the National Front for the Defense of Water and Life - Core Maracaibo.

Point: Journey to Cachirí.

Assistants: Elio

Rainy Beth Rios Torres Ingrid

Heberto Prieto Olga Pérez Escalante

Mahuanpi
Fuenmayor Keyla Indira Arrieta
Gonzalezç

Katty Gonzalez Sandra Arciniegas

Fred Burkey Bianellys Romero Jose Luis Davida

Nicanor Cifuentes Francisco Inciarte


Gladys Arciniegas Hector Suarez Jorge Hinestroza

Castilian
Elaini Ana Flores
Yamelis florian
Inciarte
Mary Patricia Maria E. Gonzalez
Yesica
Bracho Briceño León
Sirowsby
Jose Luis Davila

Virginia Rubio Lissette Briceño Nuñez Adriana

Angely Garcia


Need information to organize a campaign for the Sierra de Perija? Visit: http://www.enlacesporelagua.blogspot.com and
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Sunday, February 13, 2005

Purple Extensions On Brown Hair

A Cachirí on Saturday February 19 ... and the street in Maracaibo on Thursday February 24! Lara


The reunion on Saturday February 12, 2005.


On the morning of Saturday February 12, 2005, Youth Day, we developed a large and vigorous working meeting where decisions were agreed to be specified in street demonstrations, as of Thursday February 24 at 10 am in front of the coal and GreenFuels Caño Seco. It was also agreed to attend a meeting Saturday February 19 with the Wayuu communities in the area of \u200b\u200bthe pipe Maché, Cachirí River tributary, where to stay, as long as the likely conditions of wet weather that has been presented allow this trip without the risk of flooding. Are currently being hashed out details contact Angela Gonzalez and other community leaders with whom we will meet along one of the rivers that seek to destroy its coal business. Also reaffirmed the decision to comply with the Walk to Caracas and march to Miraflores, March 31, 2005 .
On the other hand, met the inclusion Project group's official H 2 O students from the Professional Practice of the School of Social Work, who will support the activities of the National Front for the Defense of Water and Life. This contingent of social workers shared responsibility between the working committees Front Communications, Resource Mobilization and Organization ", and work for Water and Life in the parish communities Olegario Villalobos along with the Community Front Bolivar Bolivarian Dream . In this parish will develop activities in defense of Perija Lasiter, Aboriginal communities that inhabit and quesurten aquifer water to the city of Maracaibo, threatened by coal mining. Also set up a hub of activity at the Faculty of Juridical and Political Sciences, where he published a card, and hold meetings and talks. Nicanor

materialize, including a proposal for formalization of an active core of the Front in the Bolivarian University of Venezuela, Maracaibo headquarters, where a large number of teachers and students have created many original activities of this organization, and have been developing activities of the Environmental Management Program and Agroecology in the indigenous communities of the Sierra de Perija.

At this meeting there were reports of activities conducted in the southern Sierra and Toa Island, where there is no basis to create nuclei of the Front. Francisco spoke of meetings held in communities in Toromo Yucpa, Ayapaina, flute and Meseta de Kunan, in addition to Machiques. Toa Island, Sandra informed us of meetings with Nato, Mission Ribas Pipes and people who hope for an early activity information about the problem of coal.

Jose Luis Davila, Merida, reported on the initiatives that can be made to create the Front Merida in the state.

Jorge Hinestroza spoke of the planned activities with people of the Community Front Parish Bolivarian Olegario Villalobos, who on Sunday 13 have a sport and our face is closer to support and speak on the issue of coal.

was agreed that this Tuesday 16 at 7 pm. will meet in the front seat of the committees formed for operational purposes and will be discussed details of upcoming protests, such as banners, flyers, brochures, radio promotion, organization of participants in the focus groups, jugglers, stilt group , Etc. with responsible for each task, as well as travel information to Cachirí on Saturday 19 February, details will be posted here, along with a National Invitational.
This is only a summary, because the meeting was very large and dynamic with lots of participation, proposals and details. In this review emphasized the more immediate plans.

The Head of Communications.

Thursday, February 10, 2005

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regional hub created in the National Front for the Defense of Water and Life

Attendees at the meeting in Barquisimeto
Saturday 5 February 2005 where he set the new core of the Front.




The Core will focus immediately on the organization of the Walk Water and Life, which will depart from Maracaibo to Caracas in next time. Also, on March 31 will be an indigenous march to Miraflores popular support for talks with President Chavez.

With the support of several popular groups, was created in Barquisimeto a regional hub of the National Front for the Defense of Water and Life. People and awareness organizations, schools of thought Yacambu, Cabudare militants with the support of the Movement Around the Conuco (Trujillo) and CRAM (Maracay), after sharing information related to the threat of coal mining in the Sierra de Perija promoted by the state and transnational corporations, decided to promote regional activities of the front. This core has, among other members drive, Ana Mendez, Maria Loyo, Jose Luis Velazquez, Jose Antonio Leal, Pablo Hernandez and Noel Alexander Leon.
An explanation of the plans and CORPOZULIA coal companies, and how these fatal mining ventures bring increased accdentabilidad, disease and premature death of people, the condemnation of agriculture, the forced displacement of communities indigenous and the collapse of the local hydrological cycle that carries water to the population of Maracaibo, was part of the exhibition by Professor George Hines, Coordinator Communicational National Front for Water and Life in Maracaibo.
Hines, who teaches the departments of Environmental Ethics and Ecological Problems at the University of Zulia, also referred to the situation of the greenhouse effect and global climate chaos caused by the use of fossil fuels like coal and oil. He said that coal production is being increasingly discarded in developed countries of the European Union due to its high polluting power, and oil is to replace natural gas, a little less polluting than coal, while Venezuela, which also signed the Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse arises triple extraction coal with the ecological and social consequences that it brings in the Sierra de Perija, being especially concerned that destroyed the main water sources that supply the aqueduct of Maracaibo, and to top it is intended to generate electricity with coal, which increases pollution environment. Said the unfortunate warnings CORPOZULIA President Martínez Mendoza General in contempt of the Kyoto Protocol and environmentalism as a sign of cynicism developed, more in line with neoliberalism, for which global climate disorders deserve no concern whatsoever as long as the business forward . This core will
soon as the organization of the Walk Water and Life, which will depart from Maracaibo to Caracas in next time. This walk was an idea that emerged simultaneously in Maracaibo and Barquisimeto, and now has a lot of volunteers and support from various groups of cities, towns and villages located in the path towards the capital.
Along with this, by next March 31 will be an indigenous march to Miraflores popular support for talks with President Chavez and give the request of the communities of the Sierra de Perija asking him to repeal the new concessions given to extract coal river basin Socuy Cachirí, and male. This march will culminate in a major cultural event music with projected images of the natural wealth of the Sierra de Perija, as well as Aboriginal communities opposed to coal mining on their ancestral lands. This activity will be provided by popular musical groups and artists from the capital and the interior, committed to the process of struggles of the people and environmentalists.

Thursday, February 3, 2005

How To Make A Water Feeder

begin in Light Conference on alert and reflection for Water and Life

Press Newsletter for Water and Life
Maracaibo, February 3, 2005


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Days begin in warning light and reflection for Water and Life-
Philosophy School took the lead.

Yesterday, Wednesday 2 February, the Council met at the School of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities at the University of Zulia (VENEZUELA), and after considering the issue proceeds over the Sierra de Perija from imminent development of expansive plans to extract Carbozulia CORPOZULIA-increasing volumes of coal from that area to reach the figure of 36 million tonnes a year, decided to take the initiative to start the first academic period (March) this year with a set warning activities and reflection on this troubling situation, days that should lead to a ruling of the university community this option on this imminent danger.

School Directors took this decision after listening to a committee of the National Front for Water and Life, made by Professors George Hines, Ana Maria Arciniegas Castilian and Hector, who made a statement of reasons and motivations that lead the need for the university community and country at large aware of the danger that extract coal basins of the rivers that supply the aqueduct of Maracaibo, along with the threat of mining pollution, biodiversity loss and impaired health and displacement of aboriginal peoples, miners, and residents generally in the region.

Ineida Professor Machado, Director of the School of Philosophy and researcher in the field of bioethics, said the commitment of the institution in the first line of defense and plural aware of the balance of ecosystems that sustain life on the planet especially in our region, and indicated that immediately devoted themselves to in March, the start of the new academic period 2005 to conduct a conference warning about the inconvenience of coal mining in the Sierra de Perija. An ad hoc committee on the scientific advice available to the National Front for the Defense of Water and Life will program design and implementation activities, which will be released as soon.


Communications Commission National Front for the Defense of Water and Life - Core Maracaibo.

Tuesday, February 1, 2005

How Much To Charge For A Poster

Published in the newspaper El Mundo de Caracas (1 st February 2005)


6 / The World / Tuesday / Caracas, February 1, 2005


Carbon water leaves Zulia
Although it does not burn, coal could trigger heavy fighting in the Sierra de Perija, where Indians and environmentalists are preparing to prevent the exploitation of new mines. Think Chavez can only repeal the concessions and for this march to Miraflores on 31 March.
Danisbel Gomez Morillo


Although in its early days in office, President Hugo Chávez promised the largest community barium at all costs avoid the irrational exploitation of resources in La Guajira and the Sierra Perija (Zulia state), about 350 indigenous families in the area are prepared to defend, at all costs-the land they occupy and the rivers that surround them, because there the state (together with transnational companies) is planning to extract, to from October This year, 24 million tons of coal.
Following the logic of economic "development" of the region, the business would not be bad, except that the exploitation of coal, by the two companies operating for years in the Sierra, has contaminated rivers and Socuy Guasare and forced the inhabitants of the municipalities Páez and Mara to take waste water from this mineral.
The new concessions have been granted increase the ecological damage, says Lusby Portillo, a professor at the University of Zulia (LUZ) who warns that they leave no water to Maracaibo, Miranda, La Concepcion, La Paz and El Moján, since the two dams that supply these municipalities, Tule and Manuelote be contaminated.
"That's too much exploitation for a fragile soils in the foothills of the Sierra de Perija, they are mountains. If you open these mines is very likely we will run out of water in Maracaibo, because the state gives us no guarantee of anything through the Ministry of Environment and also the impact that generated the Norte and Paso Diablo Mine in the La Guajira has reduced the water, "says Portillo, who has spent years en la lucha ambiental e indigenista en la zona.
Además de maximizar los efectos contaminantes que ya ha dejado la extracción de carbón en el Zulia, el experto hace énfasis en lo contradictorio que resulta -y aún más en este Gobierno que se dice protector del ambiente- el discurso de la explotación de carbón en la actualidad, cuando las termoeléctricas europeas están cerrando.
“Las trasnacionales y Corpozulia vienen impulsando la creación de carboeléctricas en este estado. Hay una en Tía Juana (Costa Oriental del Lago), otras en El Tablazo, en Mara y en Táchira. Venezuela enters a process and strengthens it just as Europe is emerging. In Germany, for example, are no more than 10 000 workers in coal mines, in this country and England are closing mines and power plants to meet the Kyoto Protocol that demands to lower the rate of the gases generated by industrialization coal plants or steel. Thus, while South America they close those plants open them, and in particular, boosted by this Government. There is no justification to 200 years of oil we are using coal, "said Portillo.
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By Angela Sierra González, activist wayúu and member of the community radio Nikiza Cachirí-Indian language that means Shouts Cachiríexpresó their fear of the possible expropriation of the land they occupy both his brothers as those of Bari and Yukpa ethnicities.
"For coal companies will make us leave our places, our lands are productive, we have livestock and agriculture, do not produce much but we are to sustain ourselves, to educate our children and to stay. You can not expropriate us have not even told where we relocated but not us out because the problem is water pollution, environment, nature. "González, who has moved to defend the administration of President Chavez, do not hesitate to point out that will face the National Guard or Army, and even take out the same mandatariopara prevent more carbon from the Sierra. "I ask God, who is the only power that put man on earth to cultivate and not to destroy it to protect us What do you think now my President Chavez? both saying that we were as important to him. He knows that the indigenous poor muybien give support, he has talked about our rights, but do not understand why he wants to expropriate their hermanos.Con that we are selling. "
Dec. 11 meeting was held with the Indians to persuade them to accept the exploitation of coal in the area but failed to agree. "We are not ambitious, we will not buy, will not give our land. All Wayuu agree that we will not let anyone in, if it is to fight, fight, if it is to die, we die, there will be bloodshed in our land, our rivers and our Sierra if we want to get over there ".

repeal concessions to defend this ecological reserve Zulians preparing a march to Miraflores on 31 March.
This is not the first mobilization they do, they have gone four times to Corpozulia headquarters in Maracaibo, demanding that they stop mining projects, but nothing has happened.
also have notified the Executive and have established some contacts with the Ministry of Environment, and so far the only thing visible is that the coal moving to consolidate in the area.
"We want President Chavez will listen, listen to the other version because he has is the economistic has no ecological vision of bioregion, center on water, biodiversity.
They justify the holding ground that here is a low population density but it is an important ecological reserve. It is good that the President hears the words of the indigenous and environmentalists who have been excluded from this revolution, because this government has built an indigenous or environmental policy, "says Lusby Portillo.
But environmentalists and indigenous people not only go to explain their arguments Chavez also seek action strong as the revocation of the permits were granted to these companies. "We will seek the repeal of coal concessions in La Guajira and Perija, in the land of the Bari, the Wayuu, for a public good, a social good.
The President can justify to the State and to the nation that the water of Zulia and the lands of indigenous people will revoke all those concessions, leaving only the mines already in operation. Will have to compensate these companies. This obviously can not do a minister or a deputy, you have to do it. "



"carbonizing" the environment "
model coal mining begins northwest of Zulia state through Corpozulia / Carbozulia, together with multinationals RAG Coal International Coal, Anglo-American Coal, which purchase the shares at the Shell "(Carbones del Guasare, SA] and Inter-American Coal (Carbones de La Guajira, SA) and now threaten to extend beyond the foothills of the Sierra de Perija.
First was the municipality Mara with the Paso Diablo mine in 1987 (joint venture Carbones del Guasare, SA) and thereafter in Páez municipality with North Mine in 1994 (joint venture Carbozulia Carbones de la Guajira, SA).
Today, coal mining threat of surface water and groundwater in the basin of the rivers Guasare Cachirí Socuy and through new mines to be exploited by Carbones del Guasare, SA (18.5 MMT / a), Carbones La Guajira, SA (4MMt / a), Coal Caño Seco, CA (2 Mmt / a) and Carbones del Socuy, CA (2MMt / a).
Coal Basin Socuy be transported through a 8.5-km railway to a port to be built in Pararú, Wayuu indigenous settlement, thus affecting the whole of La Guajira, also coal basins of the rivers and Cachirí Guasare be transported in tractor trailers to Carbonero Terminal Island San Bernardo, the first module of Puerto America.
In this same area, Corpozulia available to lease new coal mines mining companies MAICCA, CA (Tomen, Transmara Coal and Excel) and KTK Mining of Venezuela, CA, and thus is expected to leverage the medium term approximately 30 million tons of coal a year, in the Guajira subregion, excluding individuals from the Cerrejón mine Colombia, as expressed in the General Management Plan of Puerto America and the study Terms of Reference for Terminal Carbonero the Island of San Bernardo.
Source: Homo et Natura, ANPA and Mov. April 13.
Document published www.aporrea.org


Saturday, January 29, 2005

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therefore central to the Front for Water Cecilio Acosta (Maracaibo)


Arciniegas Hector and Jorge Hinestroza intervened on behalf of the Core Promoter of Maracaibo

A new group activity against national water work in "The Book Emporium" well-known used-book store, showroom and meeting place for characters of Maracaibo, located on Calle Cecilio Acosta.
The organization of this new post and irradiation site of struggle for the protection of water in Maracaibo was agreed after the meeting which considered the threats of coal mining in the Sierra de Perija, held on Friday at the library, from 8 pm.
At this meeting, Carlos Maglione, Yanai Quiñonez, Carolina Del Moral, Norman and Ida Prieto Trujillo, agreed to form the coordination of this nucleus for the dissemination and community organization for water and life in this area of \u200b\u200bMaracaibo.

Contact: Carlos Maglione
"The Book Emporium"




environmental and social issues related to water are central to the WSF
RIO DE JANEIRO .- Sustainable development is a central theme of the Forum III Social (WFTU), which brings together a hundred thousand people from over 100 countries in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, 23 to 28 January. In one of the 31 panels of the Forum, led by social organizations, intellectuals and leftist parties, will discuss how to advance the social control and democratic management of biodiversity, water and energy. Environmental and social issues related to water are central to the WSF, which will discuss how to prevent the privatization of this resource and make it accessible to everyone. Cities just, democratic and sustainable "will be another topic of discussion.
* Source: Inter Press Service.


A forum attended by members of the newly formed National Front for the Water and Life, Lusbi Portillo and Elpidio Gonzalez, who carried the mission of raising the threat of transnational coal mining in the Sierra Perija as a direct threat to aboriginal groups Yucpa, Bari and Wayúu and sources water that supply the northern populations of Zulia (Venezuela), west of the country.

Environmental Federation of Zulia

Wednesday, January 26, 2005

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New articles section Front Edio di Marzo

We opened a new section online publications website under the National Front for the Defense of Water and Life, which began with an article by our colleague Nicanor Alejandro Cifuentes, Biologist and Professor at the Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela.
Nicanor The brief is entitled In Perijá is the coal business or indifference ally of ecocide.
can access this new section of publications at:

hope collaborations of all members, friends and allies in the fight against for water and life in Venezuela and the world. Please send contributions to: vitae@cantv.net in any format.
Note: It is to be constituted a commission of publications. Provisionally will act as a facilitator of this work, which involves certain limitations dedication ...
George Hines.

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spoke to Chavez and indigenous coal.

An excerpt of the conversation Evio Di Marzo with President Chavez in the PROGRAM No. 211 - ALO PRESIDENT done in the Ayacucho Hall - Palacio de Miraflores, on SUNDAY, 16 JANUARY 2005.
"President Chávez: Where is the common house?" Dude, what you sing? No chicks or chicks. Do you sing? Sing us a song there, then. "Look out there this Evio Di Marzo. Where is Evio? Hey, let's sing Evio here! Let's sing a song with Evio Di Marzo, how are you worth, you're just the same. Here nobody gets old and your guitar just like, thank you for being here.
And you like your name, Efrain Leon. How's the family? How is yours? Growing. It's good! Good to see you here! Keep watering and loves music and songs, that is needed for the soul of a people. Thanks Evio, this is your house is worth. Evio Di Marzo
: Certainly, thank you. I have a few things in the Sierra de Perija ethnic asked me, I'm told, by Daniel Rojas.
President Chávez: Have you been over there recently? Evio Di Marzo
: No, keep in touch, I spoke with him because I am also aware.
President Chavez: Do you have a document you sent me? Evio Di Marzo
: To me it was sent to me things that I will help to make an event, to take the situation here is the protection of coal, I would like to help where possible, to mediate.
President Chávez: Well, as a mediator, we will do one thing: I'm going to ask the same minister Elijah ... Elijah, so we can talk later, ending the program with Evio. He is the minister Elias, on a problem there, of La Guajira, in the Sierra de Perija. You leave me with Elijah data. Correct. "
Taken http://www.minci.gov.ve/alo.asp?numn=125 (It is MINCI webpage where the full transcripts of the document file format type. doc for download. www.aporrea.org In was announced that the program "Alo Presidente" will have a page on www.alopresidente.com.ve , still not online.
JH.

Sunday, January 23, 2005

Neil Med Sinus Rinse Inflamation



Thursday was a productive day for the Front



Front
Two activities completed a great day for our purposes. The first, the discussion with Ineida Machado, director of the School of Filosof'ía of the University of Zulia, who presented his view of ethics of the struggle. At the same time, said his decision to join the Front for Water and Life.
was a moment of reflection and analysis that enables them to share different views of the promoters of the Front, where he presented reasons for developing the defense of the environment with an inclusive and pluralistic approach, which assumes respect for others and the ethics of discomfort as a source of mobilization and struggle.
hope everyone's comments for inclusion in a broader study to be published aquí.
La otra actividad se llevó a cabo una par de horas después del conversatorio en una comunidad de Maracaibo, donde nos reunimos con el Frente Comunitario Bolivariano. Algunos detalles de esta reunión se presentan en nota aparte con sus respectivas gráficas. El principal logro de esa reunión fue la incorporación de esa organización al Frente Nacional por el Agua y la Vida para librar una lucha decidida contra la explotación del carbón en la Sierra de Perijá. (ver mas abajo la nota respectiva)

Saturday, January 22, 2005

Comment Un Reset Compustar

MARACAIBO: ENTHUSIASM AND FIRMLY IN THE FIGHT FOR THE WATER AND LIFE! Collected

RESPUESTA POPULAR DE LOS COMUNEROS DE MARACAIBO A NTE LA AMENAZA CARBONÍFERA

Ineida After discussion with the ethical Machado Front for Water and Life on the Street had Carabobo, Ana Maria and I went to a meeting with the people of the Bolivarian Community Front "Dreams of Bolivar" . We went there to raise with these people fighting, the situation of the Sierra de Perija and the threat that looms over it with the exploitation of underground coal in the basin of rivers Guasare Maché Cachirí and feeding the Manuelote emblase.

also realized what had happened in the Second Bolivarian Congress of Peoples where President CORPOZULIA spurned agreements Venezuela international to the planet (Kyoto Protocol) and foolishly dismissed as "counterrevolutionaries," "CIA" and "encouragement of transnational" to the environmentalists of Zulia. After laughing heartily at these findings, some of those present drew attention to the danger of unbalanced signs General Martinez against environmentalists and appreciated the struggles leading environmentalists, such as for Lusbi Portillo and added that the plans would meet CORPOZULIA front against the sovereign decision of the people of Maracaibo, which strongly impede the development of these plans irrational in the Sierra de Perija, source of water and life for the City and the Region. Look at these beautiful photographs of people showing their enthusiasm in the struggle for water and life! This grassroots movement joined the Bolivarian National Front for the Defense of Water and Life, and many others will come after the people living Maracaibo!
Comrades, we have certainly started the Route de la Victoria in the fight against the destruction of the Sierra de Perija and drought produced by coal Venceremos!
Jorge Hinestroza

Thursday, January 20, 2005

A Good Welcome For The Church Anniversary

the weekly "The truths of Miguel" in Zulia State


The weekly "The truths of Miguel" in its edition for Friday January 14, 2005, did not circulate in Zulia state. In this weekly fuepublicado an article to two full pages, authored Leocenis Garcia, who question the expansion plans coal mining in this state. The article is entitled "War for Water in the Sierra de Perija. With or without Kyoto Kyoto is coal," and was published in the website aporrea.org (http://www.aporrea.org/dameletra. php? docid = 11 538). The unofficial information we use is that people so far unidentified "bought" the entire run for the Zulia coming to this semanario.Detrás compañíadistribuidora the vile maneuver against freedom of expression, characteristic of fascist regimes, should probably be linked to Corpozulia interests, the state corporation that promotes such coal mining plans and the same multinational companies that will ampliamentebeneficiadas with the implementation of these planes.Recordamos that the phrase that titles the article which prevented the circulation of the weekly (with or without kyoto kyoto carbon va "), was told by the Carlos Eduardo Martínez Mendoza general in 2 Bolivarian Congress of Peoples, in Maracaibo, Last 7 diciembre.Recordamos also that the general uttered accusations, as well as incoherent, against prominent leaders of the environmental struggle eindigenista in Zulia State, as is the professor of the University of Zulia Lusbi Portillo, whom he accused of integrating a " green mob andthe CIA funded by multinationals. "Likewise, the MEM official Juan Rojas, publicly accused prof. Portillo Lusbi "terrorist". All these facts constitute a serious situation in which not only threatened the lands of indigenous communities and fuenteshídricas Guasare the city of Maracaibo, are also evident against the latent threat physical integrity of the social activists that promote laprotesta against coal, and the same freedom of expression as a right constitucional.La participatory democracy enshrined in the Bolivarian Constitution of 1999, seems to be a dead letter to the General Martínez Mendoza and other promoters the irrational expansion of coal production in Zulia. His behavior repeats followed by the ombudsmen and copeyanos adecos of the fourth republic. We warn all national and international public opinion on this situation and call for wider dissemination of all materials having to do with this social movement by water in the state of Zulia.

Movement April 13 - Draft Americas. Zulia



digital version of article published in The Leocenis García Miguel Truths can be found online at the website:
http://www.lasverdadesdemiguel.com. ve / articulos.php? id_noticia = 809 & id_columna = 15 & issue = 40

prevented from taking ZULIA ...


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Tuesday, January 18, 2005

How Do You Make Small Vigana

This Thursday - January 20, 2005




FORUMS
"ETHICAL PROFILE FRONT FOR THE DEFENSE OF Water and Life "




With Ineida Machado Director of the School of Philosophy and Humanities Faculty
Education LIGHT

Invited participants: All interested
Thursday January 20, 2005

En la Calle Carabobo (diagonal to the Historical Collection)
Time: 3-5 pm
Maracaibo

Monday, January 17, 2005

Is It Possible To Have A Pet Platypus

War for Water in the Sierra de Perija


interview published by TRUTHS OF MIGUEL War for

water in the Sierra de Perija. With or without Kyoto Kyoto carbon go?
"Knowing the worst is not always equivalent to freedom from its consequences, however it is preferable to not knowing," says transparently Isaiah Berlin in his book The Originality of Machiavelli. The weekly Las Verdades de Miguel came to the Sierra de Perija curious to know about coal mining he had unleashed in the context of the Second Bolivarian Congress of Peoples, December 8, 2004, statements by Brigadier General Carlos Eduardo Martínez Mendoza, president of Corpozulia: "Just as in Venezuela there was a mob of human rights environmentalists form a "green mafia" (sic), said that, behind the green mafia against coal mining in the Sierra de Perija, were the counterrevolution and TNCs, and that the campaign against coal was led by CIA. He ended by saying: "Every step that I take President Chavez knows it and the coal business in the Sierra de Perija is a policy State (.) "With or without Kyoto Kyoto coal business is a reality."