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.
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