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.
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
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)
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.
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