Irmalicia by Velasquez Nimatuj
elPeriodico (11 Tues 11)
The richness of Guatemala today is based on the one hand, the export of young arms who leave in the absence of decent opportunities and on the other, in concessions to mining companies transnational and national, which face rising raw material prices in international market and be looking to invest little in return gold, silver, oil, nickel and other products that displace communities and destroy ecosystems.
order for this economic model is needed to continue operating the national system granted to companies, formally, to appropriate indigenous lands, which is are concentrated in non-renewable resources. And to do that are investing millions of dollars to fund managers and buy allies, from the Executive, including ministers, to ministers, vice ministers, congressmen, up to fund some organizations and indigenous representatives, some self-styled "experts, leaders or intellectuals "- to persuade communities to endorse the proposal to regulate the right to consultation guaranteed by the Convention 169 of the International Labour Organization.
From the February 24 date has been documented how flawed the process and the absence of indigenous communities in developing of the proposal. It has also sprouted a number of violations or legal contradictions, techniques and policies that have been raised by Juan de Dios Simon in his article: "Reflections and comments on the Consultation Regulation 169 of the ILO Convention on Indigenous Peoples in Guatemala"; Bartolomé Clavero in publishing: The Right to See and Fraud Convention in Guatemala, Manolo García García in the analysis sent to the Presidential Commission that drafted the rules, and also in the action of Amparo against the regulation that brought a collective consultation Native to the Constitutional Court on March 23, 2011. The
entire communities have rejected the attempt to regulate the right to consultation. Given this, lies with President Alvaro Colom desist from this intention, otherwise it will implement a community sentence Huehuetenango Mam, who told the Minister of Labour: "If the government approves the regulation is automatically signed with war indigenous peoples. "
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