Irmalicia by Velásquez Nimatuj
elPeriódico (February 7, 1911)
A third cable is WikiLeaks when President Alvaro Colom said U.S. Ambassador James Derham the Nobel Peace Prize Rigoberta Menchú, was "partly responsible for encouraging people of a community (San Juan Sacatepéquez) near the capital to oppose the construction of a cement plant."
Colom said the facility sparked protests and one of them died the Community was in favor of the processing of cement. According to the cable, she confided to the President "to continue their participation and encourage indigenous peoples to protect their land."
However, the municipality of San Juan Sacatepéquez and installation there of a cement factory Progress is a contemporary example of the results of extractive capitalism. Heartless and greedy economic system, which protects the free market law, which protects and legitimizes companies break into indigenous territories, rich in minerals, to displace its inhabitants miserable price by ordering from their property or threatening to withdraw, and extract everything they can gain them, in exchange for a few jobs. These companies do not care about the impacts on the health and lives of families who refuse to move.
addition, San Juan since 2006-when it began the discussion by the cement-to-date is an example of how to resurface in the midst of social conflict, a web of interests, long unresolved conflicts, divisions among military leaders, political, religious, economic and ethnic groups. It is clear that the cement, not only came to destroy non-renewable resources in the region, but mainly the little social fabric that had been restored after armed conflict. So today, the conflict is the communal areas, passing through the municipal and the national reach.
Given the complex scenario Is Rigoberta "partially responsible" for what happens in San Juan, where they have killed over 20 people opposed to the factory, the rule decreed by Colom prevention in arresting more than 40 men and one woman or the 50 criminal cases against more of 70 community? Yes
Rigoberta is "partly responsible for inciting", then the President is contradicted, because in that same conversation said that "the indigenous Guatemalans do not like Menchú."
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