ATTITUDES CHANGING IN PIURAArticle from the other Board:
The population of Tambogrande is distancing itself from anti-mining the cause that once had great popular reception, admitted Second Simon Garcia, leader of the Urban Defense Front Tambogrande (Fredurt), an organization that vehemently opposed the mining investments region.
The program radio Viewpoints Tambogrande The Pioneer, the leader recalled with astonishing honesty about six months ago Fredurt called the population "to define strategies against mining, but it was a shame ... because only about three hundred people gathered That means that people no longer believe or trust and if this keeps happening wins mining space. "
"The anti-mining and not called nor moves masses as before," noted Garcia Ancajima councilman who is running for National Unity in this district Piura.
He said the aim Fredurt founding was "to raise awareness to all residents of the district regarding the neglect of the Government in the agriculture sector and promote advocacy against mining valley", but confessed, now the front is virtually "buried "organization and popular representation.
"Sold"
At another point Ancajima Garcia admitted that the Fredurt is "well discredited" to the point that he no longer wants to "belong to this organization and recalled that about a year ago when it was created, had a" strong policy "of 10 leaders most of which, in the course of months, "submitted to the current mayor of Tambogrande, who benefited gold work and salaries."
"Now there are only three (officers)," he lamented.
Proliferation of illegal mining, today regrets
Later the leader had the nobility to recognize that if the Fredurt had expected (after the withdrawal of the Manhattan firm of Tambogrande) informal mining would spread with the resulting pollution and environmental destruction, had taken the decision support to legal mining.
"We can not do anything about this illegal activity ... Now who controls the mineral informal removed without paying the state? If we had foreseen that with time, they would have gotten better over the mining law, "he said.
He regretted that the poverty that afflicts most people tambograndina forces many to draw from their pens and mineralized rock land and then sell the informal miners in the town of Las Lomas.
Criticism against "champions" of agriculture
Faced with the devastating spread of illegal mining, Garcia railed Ancajima those persons and organizations that once opposed the mining investment wielding the defense of agriculture, as pristine Tambogrande activity could not live with extractive industries.
"Here the pitcher and reached the river. Where are the defenders accustomed to media campaigns? We have been fools available following false leaders," he said.
The leader even Fredurt said politicians in his speeches continue to promote poverty "because they like to eat the poor: here every candidate claims to have the magic wand of Tambogrande development, but development does not say why. It is more secure projects in agriculture have to make sense of the anti mining, but do not know where to start ... "
Ancajima Garcia finally expressed his hope that the new generation of young people in the town, which account for almost 40% of the voting population of Tambogrande, "have an answer for action against poverty that runs through our village.
THE ANSWER IS CAPITALISM .....