Translated by Latisha Hicks
The Confederation of Farmer and Popular Organizations (COCYP) denounced the offices of health, Sagarpa [The Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries, and Nutrition] and Semarnat [The Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources] for being "promoters of ecocide" in Mexico by granting concessions to transnational businesses in order to exploit forests, jungles and water sources.
So says its president, Jose Jacobo Femat, who assures that because of the depredation theses businesses have caused to the ecosystems, by the year 2050 there will be internal conflicts in the national territory for water between the states of the north and the south of the country.
At the inauguration of the Forum "Meeting of the People for Life" he commented that the legislators, since the Congress of the Union, promote the privatization of national territory, like
"Manio Fabio Beltrones, who promoted an initiative of reform to the Constitution's Article 27 in order to permit the purchase of beaches by foreigners," he said.He says that Semarnat, Sagarpa, and the Secretariat of Health allow the introduction of pesticides and agrochemicals for farms which were used in the Vietnam War and prohibited by the United States in its agricultural production.
The leader of COCYP, says that the PAN administrations [of Presidents Fox and Calderon of the National Action Party], from 2010 to 2012, granted more than 26,614 titles of concession for the exploration and exploitation of mines across the national territory equaling 53 million hectares [130,965,851 acres].
"These businesses don't pay taxes for the mining activity and don't apply the norms for security, health, and environment. What's more is that 95% of the gold, silver, copper, and other minerals go to Canada and the United States," he explains.Most of all, he urges the curbing of environmentally and nationally predatory public policies by the Federal and state governments through the unrestricted application of the law, otherwise the future generations will suffer the consequences of this "ecocide". Spanish original