Thanks Marcos, here is Spanish to English translation of the complaints:
Chihuahua, Chih. (Sugeyry Gándara | Digital) .- The deputy for the Party of the Democratic Revolution, Victor Quintana Silveyra responded today to deployed yesterday published Sunday in the main newspapers of Chihuahua by the company Minera Dolores as follows:
1 .- The company Minera Dolores actually Canadian company Mine Finders supersedes the authority to ignore national agrarian as President of the Commissariat of Ejidal Huizopa, municipality of Wood to Mr Enrique Torres legitimately elected assembly in ejido since September 2007. This makes given the attitude issues and advocate for the rights of the ejido undertaken by the new directive headed by Enrique Torres.
2 .- It is not true that the company has complied with the commitments set out with the ejido:
He has exploited more than 2000 hectares agreed; houses are built above ground in a rented inadequate; there is no system for treating sewage, has not managed the way city nor Wood has given preference to local workforce or to the acquisition of inputs and traders in the municipality.
3 .- The company intends to shape ejido with 40 million pesos when it is going to draw 3 million 137 thousand ounces of gold, 148 million 743 thousand ounces of silver, 5 million 616 thousand ounces of silver equivalent of gold: The price of The ounce of gold is currently $ 900 and the cost of removing it only 297 dollars. The price of an ounce of silver is 19 dollars, the minimum profit gained by the company to reach at least 3 billion dollars. Is it fair that the ejido received only 40 million pesos when more than 3000 hectares of forest and streams will be devastated?
4 .- It is not true therefore that Minera Dolores as boasts on its website is an enterprise of "social responsibility", as if it had not asked for the intervention of federal forces last Tuesday to strike on May 27 and gassing to settlers who blocked the road to demand that justice has not been fulfilled.
5 .- The state government and the federal government should not succumb to the blackmail of these companies who come to devastate the natural resources and generate very little wealth to our country.
6 .- We will continue to support the struggle of the ejidatarios of Huizopa and went to the national and international efforts to achieve justice. 02/06/2008
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The struggle into the ejido Huizopa, in the town of Madera, has jeopardized the gold mining in Chihuahua since ejidatarios remain blocked the work of what could be the largest gold mine in the country.
The continuing blockade of roads by farmers of Huizopa, Municipality of Madera, Chihuahua, the company Minera Dolores, threaten an investment of more than $ 200 million in the area, denounced the manager of the company, Carlos Garcia Droguett.
He added that the conflict began to develop an assembly ejido without legal sustenance for not having the majority, which was convened last May 24 by Enrique Torres, secretary of the ejido where they decided to block the entrances to the mine, thereby canceled all productive activity.
Faced with this and considering that the site offers no guarantees of safety of employees, the company determined the evacuation of 70 per cent of its staff and contractors.
Shares of blockade resulted in the arrest of Enrique Torres Gonzalez and Jose Armando Gonzalez by the Federal Preventive Police, who will wield as president and secretary of the ejido commissioner, respectively, but a few hours after the ejido leaders were released without charge and access to the mine was not cleared.
Carlos Garcia Droguett, representative of Minera Dolores demanded compliance with the rule of law to ensure workers' safety and free access for suppliers and materials to the area in which it develops or new mining project.
According to what we understand, step by stopping roads is a crime, which is why we presented a complaint with the Prosecutor-General of the entity and it gave part to the Federal Police, in conjunction with the Cipol, stressed the official .
The situation has created great uncertainty among residents of the area, which threatened their source of work.
Garcia Droguett hope that the authorities assume their crucial role to enforce and uphold the law, to make way for a production process with sustainable development.
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