The Natural Resources Defense are amplified.
By Stephen Stanich.
In an unprecedented battle plan, cuts were across the country against mega mining.
As part of a crackdown popular unprecedented environmental meetings of the Northwest and Cuyo held on Monday, at the same time, locks in different routes of the country against vehicles carrying supplies mining operations. One of the cuts are made on the No. 337 route, linking the Valley Amaicha Catamarca city of Santa Maria.
socio-environmental Assemblies across the country were united in their fight against mega mining and performed for much of Monday's simultaneous roadblocks through which was prevented from passing vehicles, mainly trucks - laden with supplies for different sites.
In the context of a consensual plan of struggle between Northwest and Cuyo organizations linked to the Union of Citizens Assemblies (UAC), were maintained until the simultaneous locks yesterday afternoon on route No. 337, which connects Amaicha Valley with the city of Catamarca in Santa Maria, at the border of Uspallata (Mendoza) in the international route No. 7 in the town of Cerro Black, on Route No. 40 in Bethlehem Catamarca and the crossing of different ways with the N ° 38 in Patquía, 70 kilometers from the city of La Rioja.
Calchaquíes In the Valley, members of the NGO Pro-Eco with social organizations and members of communities from Tafi del Valle, Amaicha Valley, Santa Maria, Fuerte Quemado, among others, confirmed that they were able to prevent the passage of several vehicles (especially trucks) on their way to Minera Alumbrera.
place in flyers were distributed to the environmental damage caused by large-scale mining and collected signatures in adherence to national campaigns for the repeal of the Mining Code and related laws and protest against the Agua Rica mine project.
The fight over the coveted
Patquía Cordillera was the site chosen for another point of protest in the heart Cuyo. Their choice is not capricious: at one point, the National Highway 38 is attached to the provincial routes 150 and 74, strategic trade in mining.
There, under an oppressive sun, some 70 residents of different cities of La Rioja and Catamarca knew prevent the passage of dozens of trucks carrying lime, ammonium nitrate and sulfuric acid used, as claimed, at Minera Alumbrera and farms in San Juan.
is an area in which, with varying degrees of progress, is trying to develop more than 30 mining projects. "There are scans and various permits in Famatina by the Barrick Gold, to give just one example. Now over the national government gave the green light to China's Shandong Gold to operate the mine El Oro, located on the hill Famatina, about 30 miles from Chili, "said Cecilia Matta who since yesterday morning participated in the strike Rioja ground.
"It's a fight against predatory model that benefits very few. Here it is not just to defend the mountains but the ground water and why we're here. Instead of traveling, we decided to spend our vacation to the defense of our resources, "said Matta.
In the middle mountain zone, Luis Sanchez, said the difficult task of stopping the largest of errant moles trying to cater to the mining of Mendoza and San Juan through a cutting in Uspallata called on the international route to Chile.
"We must endure the sun, insults, threats from the police, court cases against many peers, but here we are. It is the policy of resisting prominera of Celso Jaque (governor of Mendoza) and the extractive system based on megaminería looter and the massive export of soybeans, "says Sanchez, a member of the Popular Assembly for Water. One of the most feared is the San Jorge. There are attempts to extract copper and gold on a farm that promises to obliterate Uspallata Valley, 90 miles northwest of the capital city of Mendoza and 2,500 meters.
anti-mining struggle also said, in parallel, Catamarca city of Bethlehem. On the Black Hill area, on National Route N º 40-a must for vehicles headed to Minera Alumbrera, Agua Rica, Filo Colorado and the dozens of projects within Rioja-Tinogasta members of assemblies, Andalgalá and Choya, among others, had the mission to raise their voice of resistance from the epicenter of one of the most coveted by multinational mining companies .
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