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El Carnaval!

I do not know exactly when this all started. Even as I returned from vacation in late January, met every evening percussion groups in the Plaza, drummed and sang until the early hours of the morning carnival songs. Despite an imposed during the carnival association and alcohol prohibition in the Plaza de Armas Over the weeks, there were more and more groups of people who gathered there every night, danced and drank.



as not necessarily a big fan of the carnival I watched the first few weeks of the daily recurring street festival from a distance. On Wednesday before Carnival Monday I was then captured by the carnival and was able to pull free from the first swim on Sunday. That day was also the 155th Cajamarca's birthday as an independent political unit. With great fanfare official was at the Plaza celebrated the first birthday, but after the torching of castillos (wooden structures) and the fireworks seized the carnival places with liquor-filled rhythms back.


Dangerous cajamarquinischen the carnival is the group dynamics. Standing around and look hard, if ever a scout of percussion groups to catch people. Because to each other in fierce competition: Who sings the loudest, has the best tools that most people in the circle? With women and gringos are apparently twice. Scouts hang on the hook of the bait then Songs of Praise to the beauty of the already recruited women as well as the group's own inexhaustible existing liquor stores. If one has taken the bait and pull into the circle, can be suspended in a Perpetuum mobile set from circulating liquor, beer and wine bottles. In the drinking breaks the drums, sang and danced until the doctor comes.


during this time, the state of emergency in the city prevails and public life almost comes to a halt is given the tradition of Carnival brandy no wonder. The famous, infamous Caliendito is sold off to every corner in liter bottles. The quality of the brew is a matter of luck, because it is produced in home production. The base is probably high-proof vodka with passion fruit or orange juice, which is always warm (!) Served and drunk. In a pitch you can handle the next day in bed with the attempt to bring to shut down the church bells in my head and spend their time with the reconstruction of the previous evening.


Otherwise, the Carnival in Cajamarca follows a strict choreography. On the Friday before said Wednesday the Carnival Queen was crowned in a traditional beauty contest (1st prize VW Golf). Wednesday was the city's birthday. On Thursday I was Caliendito victims on Friday was a water war officially opened for. On that day's runs best with a raincoat in the city. For in every balcony and every house threatens the wet danger. Buckets or Egoshooterstil with water pistols are again released mostly women and gringos to wet launch.


Saturday was anarchy and chaos entered the city. Early, I was awakened by the singing and drumming on the House passing people. When I my room, still in pajamas, left, I was immediately abgewatscht with 3 depth charges. In front of the house covered by masses of colorful people, the carnival Saturday is traditionally Farbtag. Instead of water, people splash of color and to use them all that is colorful. Paint, varnish, spray the main thing is, it leaves traces. Like a sore thumb was not a household word more, for even the street dogs were green, blue, red check.




A huge bunch of people marched through the city, held briefly held for intense battles or color to be let off the roofs and balconies water properly. The aim of the baggage train was the Plaza de Armas. In between, I allowed myself to persuade Peru's newspapers and television "interviews" to give. The article is published in La Republica , I hope the video recordings are due to unacceptability lost somewhere in the archive! All of Cajamarca was a huge Halli-Galli-party, only the police are once again struck negative. Below the plaza they had blocked the access roads (dance or drinking encouraging Plaza!) and as the people celebrating passing by, it was actually not that a little paint and water also met the men in uniform. The majority reacted calmly, but in the Dos de Mayo was a unit that would have rather celebrated and therefore had to compensate for their frustration with beatings on the passing.


The colorful Carnavaleros, however, remained calm, taunted the cops and dancing easy. Especially since the whole operation like that was silly of, because in the next parallel street was not a crazed "order Brigade" and so the people just turned up there, then the next street right again and you they were at the Plaza. "Ganamos siempre!" (We always win!), A comment from one who had just one more thing to get the baton and was now limp on the stupidity of the police laughed.




was Saturday night, alongside the traditional improvised music groups, a huge electric open-air party in the upper Dos de Mayo. I've taken the not but since I was a bit tired. On Sunday there was the costume parade of the different neighborhoods. On Monday, were allowed to present you the official carnival queens in the big parade. The Tuesday should have been fairly quiet, what with the weekend program was no surprise and most (Ash) Wednesday there probably once a great farewell party at the Plaza with wine, song and dance.


I Lima Sunday after the interim seminar of my German organization "World House-Bielefeld" had to, I could just let me tell you what happened to the Rose Monday until Ash Wednesday.

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Update: Police Violence in Pajuela

los Revisión integral de las políticas de Minera Yanacocha a la luz de principios Voluntarios de Seguridad y Derechos Humanos "In his essay
(Comprehensive Review of Minera Yanacocha's Policies Based on the Voluntary Principles of Security and Human Rights) Dr. Gino treated Costa (Rechtswissenschaftler, Universidad Católica Lima) unter anderem die Zusammenarbeit zwischen Yanacocha und staatlichen Sicherheitsorganen und stellt fest:

"Second, the Peruvian National Police which, in the framework of a cooperation agreement with the company, collaborates to protect its property, the well-being of its members and the residences of its high-ranking executives, in addition to escorting vehicles that transport goods and equipment. The police also guarantee the freedom of transit, above all on access roads leading to the mine, which are frequently blocked. The company has both a contingent of police officers from the Bureau of Special Operations (DIROES) that are stationed at the mining facilities and are rotated on a monthly base, and a small mobile police station. The company pays the police officers a special bonus and makes a contribution to the institution as a result of these services. "

ie anything other than that there is no separation between the civil service and private security services of the Peruvian police in Yanacocha, but that both services in parallel run alongside each other. The police for their service in the mine by the company next to the state content gets a "special bonus". In addition to government officials Yanacocha also employs three other purely private security companies (Forza).
Not only that the police (who says that in addition to the police nor prosecutors, judges and Beamte andere einen "spezielle Grundausbildung Bonus" von Yanacocha beziehen?), wie erwähnt, in einen Interessenkonflikt kommt, die außerdem Doppelanstellung gefährdet die öffentliche Ordnung in Cajamarca, wie uns Alejandro Gálvez, Gemeinderat und der des Rathaus Unternehmensadministrator Cajamarca (!), in einem Interview Ende Dezember erläuterte:

"In Cajamarca we have problems of insecurity and the police are at the mine, we want those cops are here, but as mining gives them extra money the past couple sends us do not have enough police to guard the City police and the municipality does not depend on central government depends not depend of us in other countries depends on the mayor the police here do not depend on the mayor, who is here can attack near the city but police who derive to go to mine it's good when we can go about cops not when failure as based on some police handling goes for neglecting the city beyond. "

(" In Cajamarca haben wir Probleme mit der Sicherheit, weil die Polizei ist in der Mine. Wir wollen das die Polizei bleibt in der Stadt, aber das Geld Zusätzliche Minenunternehmen gibt Ihnen deswegen haben wir und Polizei nicht genug, um die Sicherheit in der Stadt zu gewährleisten. untersteht Aber nicht die Polizei der City, but the central government [in Lima AdA]. We have no authority in other countries as it stays within the local government here is not what causes it in the city raids, the existence in the police is working in the mine. That would be fine if we had enough officers in the city in order to guarantee security, but if not neglected due to some machinations of the police, the security needs of the city. )

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police force in La Pajuela

In the article "Water samples: Practice and emergency" I still wonder what a special police unit ( DINO - Division Operaciones Especiales Nacional de ) Has heavily armed to search the premises of the private company Yanacocha. Yesterday I was answered that question, unfortunately by the unit itself and to the dismay of some farmers from La Pajuela.

DINO - police Yanacochasecurity or all at once?

As Señor Felipe (one of the farmers that we turn the documentary) and his nephew, Juan-Carlos early yesterday morning run over one of their sheep dogs on exclusively by Yanacocha transporters street were used, they called for mine and asked for an interview about possible compensation. Shortly after that appeared a few engineers at Yanacocha, but not alone, but with a unit of DINO . This also took the same word and when the farmers, consisting of a conversation with Yanacocha employees, refused the Anghörigen of the special unit to speak, the situation escalated.

Juan-Carlos distributed tamales (corn dough) at the Dia de Muertos

From a group of about 20 police beat eight abruptly Señor Felipe and Juan-Carlos one. In this case they used rifle butts and batons. When the 15 year old sister of Juan-Carlos protested and wanted to rush to help her brother, was taken to them. According to the farmers saw the Yanacocha engineers present the excess power to stand by and filmed the scene untouched. After they had beaten them, the unit arrested the farmers and drove them to Cajamarca to the police station.

one of the suspected DINO - Men (with AK-47 on the lap) during questioning at the police station

The family of Felipe and Juan-Carlos, meanwhile, had informed GRUFIDES and two lawyers of the NGO were waiting at the station to the two mistreated to provide legal aid. After them the story of the victims and witnesses had been described, they moved the peasants to view the DINO members for assault. Because they could clearly identify four of the eight uniformed thugs, they found themselves finally with 4 of her attackers in the same interrogation room.

Juan-Carlos for the special treatment by the special unit

Valentin and I were now on site and could not believe what we saw and heard. A visibly frightened Juan-Carlos, the barely stand upright and could only walk with support, had to give his testimony the same room as the club which he had so tanned. These were still armed with their AK-47 and grinned smugly. Surprisingly for us was that the 4 lawyers, who represented the DINO police officers will be on the payroll of Yanacocha. Because at the time of the event was dressed DINO-unit which in their national service uniforms, but worked in the service of the private company Yanacocha. The more surprising were the justifications for the men of the Special Unit for their violence. Allegedly had the peasants against the maintenance of public Rest failed, what wonder, as Felipe and Juan Carlos were beaten on their own private property. The other reason was their alleged resistance to state violence, which seems strange since the DINO unit during the incident even worked as a private security force for Yanacocha! Even the representative of the Court in a haze and had to ask several times, whether it is investigating police officers in government service or private security from Yanacocha. is

his back from beatings drawn

this confusion by a provision for Peruvian government employees (allows for the under arms), as they can work in their spare time for private companies. However, it is not recognizable to an outsider, whether the uniformed policeman with whom he is speaking at the service of the state (that is considered idealistic in the service of citizens) is or whether the police officer takes the security interests of a private company. Moreover
advised the police or soldiers in dual employment in a heavily-resolvable conflict of interest. Work for example, in an approved mine critical demonstration for the state and have seen an objective legal order function or represent them, the subjective interests of a mining company, for which Avoid a negative image likely to provide a resolution or even escalation (and criminalization) of such a demonstration is located? These are my musings on the legal equality of social actors (eg civil society, businesses) in an objective state with watchdogs at all relevant or are in capitalist countries, the interests of the state and enterprises at the expense of the rights of civil society already congruent?

Anyway, what will come out well ultimately it when two farmers try to beat their rights against 4 persons claim the same work for the state and the largest company in the region, can probably imagine any self. is

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Digression: Neoliberal murder

in Guatemala on 11 January this year was again an activist of the opposition Front for the Defence of Natural Resources and the rights of the population Frena (Frente de Resistencia en Defensa de los Recursos Naturales y Derechos de los Pueblos) and the peasant organization CUC murdered.

The 26-year Evelinda Ramírez Reyes continued to be her colleague, Victor Galvez shot dead by unknown persons in her car. It is noticeable (as in Galvez) that was not stolen in the raid.

funeral of Isidro Llanos (Source: GRUFIDES)

As already in this blog mentioned cajamarquinischen activists Isidro Llanos and Edmundo Becerro Cotrina, which was shot in 2006 by assassins and the police and security forces in November 2009 killed demonstrators in Huancabamba / Piura ( Vicente Robledo Ramirez, 55, father of 8 children and Castulo Huayama Correa, 36) are all those executions in connection with the critical involvement of the victims against the methods of transnational corporations.

Edmundo Becerro Cotrina (Source: GRUFIDES)

As the leader of the NGO Frena criticized Reyes Galvez and the English electricity provider DEOCSA-Unión Fenosa, the abused its market power in Guatemala for the increased rates at low quality of electricity supply.

Llanos and Cotrina were leaders of the organized farmers in the resistance against the corporate policy of transnational mining companies such as the U.S. and UK Yanacocha Farrell-Cooper Mining in Cajamarca.

arms caches in the private security company from Yanacocha (Source: GRUFIDES)

Farmers Huayama Ramirez and demonstrated against the methods of the Sino-British Mine Rio Blanco Piura.

Castulo Correa Huayama , Huancabamba / Piura ( Source: upsidedownworld.org )

Sorry, could be the list of slain civil-society activists (inn) en in Latin America who criticize the methods and consequences of transnational enterprise, endlessly continue

Dora Alicia Sorto (Source: upsidedownworld.org )

Marcelo Rivera (source : upsidedownworld.org)

(for example, the 2009 murdered Marcelo Rivera, 37, Dora Alicia Sorto, 32, and Ramiro Rivera , three leading activist (inn) en in El Salvador, which is opposite the Canadian Gold Mine Pacific Rim Mining Corp. opposed)

Ramiro Rivera (Source: elciudadano.cl)

need more names of those murdered I will not be mentioned, however, so striking that there is an obvious connection between the murder of civil-society activists (inn) en, and the economic Engagement (mostly Western) multinational companies in their countries are.

massacre in Bagua (Source: upsidedownworld.org)

Of course it is this relationship to prove legally difficult, since the structural conditions in many Latin American countries (especially those in which Western free-trade doctrine is adapted unconditional political, like Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Peru, Honduras) are stored so that prosecution of the killers in the sand either runs or is not even considered. In Guatemala, for example, remain 98% of crime unsolved. Another reason is that the politically motivated killings, in these countries, often with the official security forces here. Or the State to the submissive and ruthless enforcer of the interests of transnational corporations makes shows like the examples in Piura or the massacre of Indians in the Peruvian Amazon city of Bagua in June 2009. Bagua in a peaceful demonstration against the economic exploitation of the rain forest of a special police unit was shot down. Overall, 47 people died and 153 were injured.

massacre in Bagua (Source: upsidedownworld.org)

Now it seems that western companies as part of economic globalization and its economic involvement in developing the legal standards applicable in their countries of origin, feel relieved and, instead, the weak legal institutions and the corruption in developing countries take advantage of. Because while companies use their power, their money and influence to possible to generate optimal investment conditions in these countries, they remain silent and inactive when it comes to the investigation of these murders and the enforcement of constitutional standards. But perhaps include the weakening of civil society committed by the murder of their minds also critical to optimize the investment environment?

The proponents of the currently dominant neo-liberal form of economic globalization lead to their defense again and again the argument put forward that the free market do not need social or state control, as transnational corporations and act rationally based socially responsible would. In addition, a further mantra cited argument, were investments of transnational corporations is essential for local and regional development in the so-called developing countries.

Given the great social resistance to the economic methods and conditions in this country clearly raises the question of what's going wrong. Ignore the people in Peru, El Salvador, Guatemala and many other countries of the global south, the armies intentions of transnational companies in the industrialized countries of the North? Or are the promises made by neoliberal globalization, growth and development is nothing more than empty words?

you measure "development" of periodic macroeconomic growth figures of developing countries, then the neo-liberal globalization has certainly what it promises. For while the economic growth figures for the developed countries have slipped into the red zone, they stay in Peru, Guatemala and elsewhere in the south at a high level of 4-6%. The direct export of perishable primary raw materials (gold, silver, copper, cobalt, oil, gas, etc.) in developed countries is thanks.

By measuring, however, "development" in sustainable factors such as the diversification and strengthening of state structures, the degree of democratic participation of people in the affected areas, building a wide range of educational infrastructure, measures to preserve the environment, security food sovereignty of local / regional population and the degree of diversification of the regional economic structure (ie the structure processing, labor intensive and therefore more sustainable industries), then falls the track record of neoliberal globalization from very modest.

For the latter, sustainable development model to put an Evelinda, Victor, Isidro, Edmundo, Vicente, Castulo, Marcelo, Dora, Ramiro and many others paid for it with their lives.