Peruanista
Peruanista
Peruanista es un blog personal, bilingüe, que comencé a fines de 2006. Es mayormente acerca de Perú, Latino América y sobre la influencia de las políticas de EE.UU. en las Américas.
Peruanista is a bilingual, personal blog I started by the end of 2006. It is mostly about Peru, Latin America and the influence of U.S. policies in the Americas.
Carlos A. Quiroz
Escritor, activista en redes sociales, artista pintor. Mis blogs: Peruanista, Carlos in DC. Fui a la universidad para arquitectura, pintura, de arte. Soy un inmigrante indocumentado, nací en Perú y vivo en EE.UU. Mi herencia es nativo americana. Soy gay o dos-espíritus. Me atrevo a ser justo.
Writer, social media activist, artist. My blogs: Carlos in DC, Peruanista. I went to college for architecture, art painting. I’m an undocumented immigrant, born in Peru and I live in the U.S. My heritage is Native American. I’m gay or Two-Spirit. I dare to be fair.
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Falta que lo malogre aliandose con la Venezuela de Chavez se sabe que mayoria que votaron por el, esta en contra de esto. Peor los que no votaron. Saludos y que tenga buena suerte.
me gusta esta web
Me dá mucho gusto en escuchar y ver las reflexiones, entrevistas y comentarios sobre la situación actual de la política, quisiera hacer un comentario con respecto al tema…
Soy del Sur del Perú – Cusco exactamente, aqui recibimos la vicita de Kenyi conduciendo el mismo un helicóptero y transportando ropa y viveres en camionetas de empresas que apoyan abiertamente y sin ningún escrúpulo para comprar votos sobre todo en la zona de la selva donde se explota el gas de Camisea.
Con respecto a la situación socio Política del Perú, considero que era de esperar esta respuesta de la población, sobre todo de la población.
Hola Carlos, sabes me gustaría poder discutir contigo algunos puntos mencionados en tus videos de Youtube.
Espero que me respondas. Saludos cordiales
José
Mining Peru: Canada’s New Territory?
http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/7645-mining-peru.html
by Yves Engler
A leading candidate for president in Peru’s April election “took his campaign” to Vancouver, reported the city’s leading daily. Earlier this month Alejandro Toledo — who served a previous term as president — met mining officials, investment bankers and journalists, telling them his government would improve the climate for mineral exploration and mine development.
“One of the reasons why I have interrupted my campaign,” Toledo told the press, “is that I wanted to transmit the message to potential investors — investors who are already involved in Peru, and who are potential investors, that we are interested in their investments.”
For some, Peru is a Canadian success story. Before 1990, no Canadian mining company operated in Peru. Now Canadian corporations dominate the country’s mining sector, operating a number of major projects. According to Bloomberg, “more than 200 junior mining exploration companies, mostly Canadian, are searching for reserves of crude oil, natural gas and other resources across the country.”
As an illustration of the size of Canadian mining investment in Peru, in late 2006 ScotiaBank announced plans to expand its operations in the country to do more business with mining clients. The Toronto-based bank is the third largest in Peru and only a small part of the $5 billion Canadian companies have invested in the country.
Where some see Canadian success, others see problems, at least for many Peruvians. “In Peru,” noted McGill University professor Daviken Stuenicki Gizbert, “40 percent of conflicts involving local communities are over mining. The majority of the mining sector in Peru is Canadian.” In a short period in 2008 Canadian resource companies in Peru were responsible for a number of socially damaging events; an oil and gas company entered an area inhabited by a nomadic tribe that refused contact with the outside world; a mine destroyed pre-Columbian carvings; the government declared a state of emergency over fears that arsenic, lead and cadmium from a mine near Lima could pollute the capital’s main water supply.
In October 2008, Zuniga, the president of the Achuar indigenous group FENAP, told a local radio: “We, as indigenous people, reject the Canadian company Talisman. We do not want them working in our territory. We want the Peruvian state to respect us and the armed forces to stop helping the company.” In the Spring Achuar leaders traveled to Calgary to tell Talisman to stop drilling in their territory because it caused ecological harm and social conflict.
The world’s largest gold miner, Toronto-based Barrick, has also been embroiled in a number of conflicts in Peru. “Violent conflict at Barrick Gold’s Tierina in North Central Peru,” blared a 2005 Canadian newspaper headline, as the story reported two protesters killed. A year earlier Reuters reported “thousands of protesters angry at a court decision to waive a $141 million tax payment levied on Canadian miner Barrick Gold Inc. clashed with riot police in Peru’s central Andes on Monday, the latest in a run of anti-mining protests in the mineral-rich nation.”
The most high profile mining conflict in Peru took place earlier in the decade at Vancouver-based Manhattan Minerals $240 million project in Tambogrande, a small town in the north of the country. This open pit gold mine would have forced half of the town’s 16,000 residents to relocate while creating only a few hundred jobs. Godofredo Garcia Baca, a leader of the anti-mining opposition movement, was shot and killed under suspicious circumstances.
The federal government has supported many individual mining projects in the country and has worked to provide the industry with a profitable investment climate. Manhattan Minerals obtained its concession in Tambogrande six months after participating in a Department of Natural Resources trade mission to Peru and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) partnered with Barrick on a reforestation project near the company’s Lagunas Norte mine. In 2002 CIDA began a six-year $9.6 million Mineral Resources Reform Project to provide technical assistance and technological support to the country’s Ministry of Energy and Mines. At the end of 2008 CIDA added $4 million to the project and the agreement was extended until 2012. The official goal of the Mineral Resources Reform Project is “development of activities oriented to the consolidation of the institutional capacity of the sector, which means the services provided by the Ministry of Mines and Energy, and to contribute to the generation of greater confidence in the Ministry and its regional offices.”
CIDA’s push to improve the prospects for Canadian miners through the Mineral Resources Reform Project warranted a visit in early 2008 by the minister of international cooperation. Embassy Magazine reported: “Ms. [Bev Oda] … arrived in Peru meeting with the Latin American nation’s energy and mines minister, as well as Canadian and Peruvian mining companies and NGOs to discuss mining sector reform.”
Last year CIDA chose Peru as a “country of focus” and the federal government signed a trade agreement with Peru largely designed to improve the prospects for Canadian investors. According to Foreign Affairs, “an investment chapter in the Canada-Peru FTA [free-trade agreement] locks in market access for Canadian investors in Peru and provides greater stability, transparency and protection for their investments.”
In truth the FTA — with environmental and labour safeguards that are “even weaker than NAFTA’s” — might be better characterized as subverting meaningful democracy. The FTA is designed to remove any future Peruvian government’s ability to change mining regulations or expropriate properties of Canadian companies.
For Canadian officials pushing the interests of mining companies Toledo’s visit to Vancouver was definitely a sign of success. But, many Canadians may disagree. Instead of “success” they may see imperialism and Canada following in the U.S.’ footsteps.
Yves Engler is the author of Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid and the Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy. For more info: http://yvesengler.com
“PABLO ANTONIO CARRASCO FERRER”
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:46:12 -0500
ESTIMADOS AMIGOS,
es una alegria presentarles este comunicado de la diocesis de Huaraz en torno a los diferentes problemas mineros que se viven en nuestra zona, es la primera vez que toda la Iglesia particular de Huaraz se pronuncia frente a estos hechos ojala Dios nos ayude a perseverar en esta linea profetica.
les pedimos nos ayuden a su difucion.
SI QUIERES PROMOVER LA PAZ, PROTEGE LA CREACION.
(Carta de BENEDICTO XVI, 1 de enero 2010)
DECLARACION DEL OBISPO Y LOS SACERDOTES DE LA DIOCESIS DE HUARAZ,
EN TORNO A LOS PROBLEMAS SOCIALES GENERADOS POR LA MINERIA EN NUESTRA REGION
1. El Obispo y los Sacerdotes de la Diócesis de Huaraz, testigos del Señor que ha venido a darnos la Vida en abundancia (Jn. 10,10), reunidos en la localidad de Cajacay, conscientes de los últimos y graves problemas sociales que afectaron seriamente la vida de nuestras ciudades y pueblos a partir de la presencia de la Compañía Minera Chancadora Centauro en inmediaciones de la laguna de Conococha, expresamos nuestro respaldo a la población que reclama el derecho a una vida digna en un ambiente saludable.
2. Reprobamos los excesos, el vandalismo, los actos de violencia, los desmanes, el atropello a la libertad de las personas en sus actividades y desplazamientos, producidos durante las manifestaciones de la semana pasada. Asimismo, nos extraña la escasa cobertura prestada a estos eventos por los medios de comunicación nacional.
3. Nos solidarizamos con la familia del comunero Muñante Willy Cadillo Vergara, muerto durante los enfrentamientos en Catac. Expresamos nuestra cercanía a los heridos civiles y efectivos de la Policía Nacional.
4. Condenamos todo acto de apropiación de los bienes naturales que pertenecen a todos los Ancashinos y a la humanidad entera; asimismo condenamos toda actividad que, en el futuro, puede llegar a contaminar el ambiente más aun constituyendo nuestra Región una zona eminentemente turística y agrícola.
5. Denunciamos otros posibles focos de contaminación ambiental en diversos lugares de nuestra Región, de los que aún no hemos tomado consciencia como: Mesapata (Catac), Alianza y Tomalamano (Ticapampa), Hércules (Aija), Magistral (Chiquian), Santa Rosa (Jangas), Palca-Rio Llamac (Bolognesi), California (Yungay) y muchos otros lugares donde se ejerce la pequeña, mediana y grande minería, formal e informal.
6. Deploramos la ineptitud de las autoridades regionales y nacionales por la lentitud con la que actuaron para la solución del problema del ilegal otorgamiento de la autorización de exploración a la empresa Chancadora Centauro.
7. Pedimos que los Congresistas de nuestra Región presenten al Congreso de la República un proyecto de ley orientado a una mayor protección de las áreas naturales que son la verdadera riqueza y futuro, también económico, de nuestra Región. Toda actividad minera debe tener la aprobación de la población afectada directa e indirectamente en sus territorios, incluida la población que se encuentra en la totalidad de la cuenca. Tal aprobación debe conseguirse de manera democrática, mediante consultas populares.
8. Invocamos una voluntad de diálogo cada vez que, en el presente y futuro, existan problemas o conflictos. Especialmente llamamos a las autoridades a mantenerse en permanente estado de escucha de las necesidades y anhelos de nuestra población.
9. Exhortamos a la población en general a mantenerse en constante estado de alerta para hacer de conocimiento público todo acto de contaminación. La cohesión experimentada en estos días se convierta en una medida disuasiva a las empresas mineras para que no prioricen el lucro antes que la vida y la salvaguarda del ambiente.
10. Clamamos al Señor de la Vida para retornar a una pacífica coexistencia entre la población, las autoridades, las empresas y el ambiente, en el ejercicio de las diferentes actividades de nuestra región.
Construyamos la paz como fruto de la justicia social.
Mons. Eduardo Velásquez Tarazona y todos los sacerdotes de la Diócesis de Huaraz.
CAJACAY, EL 15 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2010