Irmalicia by Velásquez Nimatuj
elPeriódico (28 Tues 11)
Today, in the Hall of the People's Congress, the 14:00 pm, Deputy Otilia Lux de Coti has summoned the Minister of Labour and Social Welfare, Mario Roberto Illescas Aguirre, to explain the process used in developing the proposed regulation of Convention 169 of the International Labour ILO. And procedures that from February 24, the date when President Alvaro Colom presented, are being used to refer to all indigenous peoples.
timely opportunity to inquire of the Minister of Labour who has the voice and action of the State of Guatemala against the ILO, to explain directly, detailed and documented what are the reasons why the government of Colombia, just as agonizing and after three years of continuous prolonged use of indigenous exclusion, through the sarcastic repetitive figure that would put "a government with a Mayan face," decides to seal the negotiations that has kept secretly with extractive companies, investors and foreign. Launching so aggrieved, arbitrary, malicious and in order to deliver the last remaining land to indigenous and mestizo poor, where there is gold, nickel, oil, water and other resources, regulation of the right to consultation and participation of indigenous embodied in Article 6. Right, experts say, is the cornerstone of Convention 169, on which underpins all other provisions and that this regulation, the State and companies seeking to dilute?
Minister needs to clarify why the Presidential Commission that drafted the proposal worked for 9 months in hiding, only in communication with representatives of agencies, institutions and organizations, without the rest from various sectors that are most , knew of its existence? Besides explaining why driving the strategy of putting pressure on organizations that if they do not agree to develop a counterproposal when knows that there is trust among the stakeholders?
There is a long list of questions, but should not be left out those related to the conceptual frameworks used to define, query, binding, administrative and regulatory measures, resource exploitation, collective rights and the right to veto.
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