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I just received an email which is the biggest stupidity of recent times: a chauvinistic jerk calls for a boycott, not to consume, Argentine products ... name is not known what, but either way is an outrage that threatens the country's interests.

Just think about this: The Uruguayan consumption represents less than 1 percent of Argentina's production. Instead, the Argentines buy about 30 percent of our export production. The conclusions are obvious: if you absolutely all Uruguayans stop buying Argentine products would do them no dent in the Argentine (although the boycott was a success not know what we gain horns !!!!), but if Argentines boycotted SERIOUSLY our production we would make a hole our economy would be ruined. Enter into this sort of nonsense is unfortunate jingoistic and chauvinistic. The organizers do not tell what would be the saint of such a boycott, but one imagines that is the issue of roadblocks and pulp mills, as mentioned resolutions on the use of the Uruguay River from La Hague and BID ... (meaning, incidentally, that the Uruguayans should prostrate authorities to such very famous) ...

thoughts on plants. If we make a list of benefits and harms, the list is much larger damages than benefits.
be created only 300 jobs (mostly for foreign technicians) while going to destroy thousands of jobs in agriculture, fisheries, tourism, gastronomy, hotels, beekeeping and other important areas of the economy.

The installation of these plants will not only pollute and deteriorate in a very serious way the ecosystem of the Uruguay River basin, but also will generate migration, poverty, misery and unemployment, as they have done all the pulp mills, with the same technology, have already settled in other South American countries. Let's look at two examples: the Celco cellulose in Valdivia, Chile, using exactly the same technology that Botnia, had to be closed by the government due to high pollution and poisoned many people and killed more than 30,000 swans black-necked (endangered species) in the Cruces River Sanctuary declared Ecological Site by the United Nations.

In Brazil, Aracruz Cellulose, the same economic group and with the same technology that Botnia and Ence, contaminated the river so that the fishermen had to emigrate and much of the population also has been due to lack of work caused by the advance of monoculture eucalyptus.

Recently the mayor of Pontevedra, where the array is installed Ence said publicly that the inhabitants of that city in Galicia are looking forward to the fulfillment of the legal term given to the company to withdraw because the estuary has been highly contaminated, which has damaged fishing, the main industry in the region, in addition to increased incidence of cancer and respiratory disease among residents of the area.

So far, the only defense of plants in Uruguay are paid technicians by the company, the technicians are paid by the World Bank and the government, all involved with direct interests in this nefarious scheme to succeed. In contrast, all independent experts, including faculty of Sciences, and those belonging to diverse organizations, ie, above suspicion of bias, they argue that pollution is really serious and harmful.

government, business and the World Bank lie when they say they will use the latest technology. Because they use ECF, which is a technology that is 15 years behind compared to the TCF. While the ECF effluents are dumped into the river contaminated with pollution TCF would be less because it is a closed loop system. But as it is more expensive not to use in Uruguay, by contrast, will use the most backward and the most polluting: the ECF.

Government, World Bank, the company and the media lie knowing that the World Bank and the company have put a lot of money to do so. Moreover, the government wants to save his friends from the bank boxes, notary and university professionals selling trees, while the country has melted down, because the only ones benefiting from this project are the owners of forested areas and the large transnational corporations afforestation. Install

dirty business, highly toxic contaminants in third world countries is a goal long planned and implemented by the rule and the central and Uruguayans are now suffering the consequences. It is sad that the new government to support such aggression to our legitimate interests.

But also the main argument for the plants, which is the alleged creation of jobs, falls apart spectacularly when you do the math: put the plants here means choosing the forestry model, the worst model of all existing productive . Why? For a thousand hectares of forested area, employing just four people. Instead, thousand hectares any type of agricultural production - ANYONE! - employs five times as many people. Some items are cheap to employ, even 150 people in the same area, but on average agricultural production is five times more employment generating than afforestation. Therefore, opt for afforestation and for the installation of pulp mills is to choose a future of despair, migration, unemployment and poverty, as it has happened in all those regions where these plants have already been installed.

While the new government will continue along this path there will be no problem with the opposition. The Sanguinetti, the Batlle, Los Lacalle and Heber own or are involved with large forested area. And so these leaders rubbed his hands and congratulate Arana and Vazquez on this issue, like the mass media, but we all know are people who never cared the country.

To top: and not enough to destroy the Fray Bentos coast but also to destroy Durazno y Rocha, the latter one of the departments would lose its greatest asset, ie their natural environments, beaches and wetlands that are most source of income from the tourism point of view that the country faces. But if these three plants are installed are not the only ones: there are seven more planned. Can you imagine what will become of Uruguay?: There is only room for a few technicians and operators dealing with burning logs, to bear the smell of rotten eggs and can survive tons of pollutants. The little country will become a green desert.

I ask myself the following: we broke the soul to defend our water, we had a referendum which is an example in the world and now the people who happily give away is going to pollute with impunity. Worse because the country does not even going to win a weight with the industrialization of the trees. Uruguay will continue to export logs, ie, raw materials without value added, because the territory you are installing Botnia and does not belong to Uruguay, is part of Finnish territory, the government gave it, is what emerges from the treaty approved by Parliament and the government decree that made that part of our country in a free zone.

Another pearl in this necklace: Botnia is exempt from paying taxes, if any merchant or manufacturer Uruguay, like anybody else, pay increasingly burdensome taxes. In the past 20 years, including direct and indirect subsidies gave the country one billion dollars in forestry, we pay taxes to all Uruguayans. The model forest is exotic and inefficient and would not prosper without subsidies. Among many atrocities, the previous government passed a law under which any agricultural complex forested area exceeding 60 percent or more is exempt from tax. Results: Most landowners planted eucalyptus in cold blood, even in land suitable for agriculture or grazing, disabling the land for other productive activities, destroying the Uruguay Natural. But worst of all is that now the new government, instead of trying to reverse the disaster, seeks to further injustice: in the latest draft budget included an article which exempts from all taxation to forest enterprises. Such nonsense we will pay all Uruguayans ... Sad, very sad. It is time we started to think instead of saying yes to everything that we try to "sell." WF

PS: I just learned that an Uruguayan legislator, I do not know who she is and which party, recently called in a session of Parliament, not to consume products from Argentina. Go! What an idiot you do online, go and go, but a legislator to do so in full Parliament is already severe. The only comment I can think of is this: for many years Uruguay has to export brains. It is seen that almost all have sent abroad, so that these things happen in our blessed country.

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The intention of installing two pulp manufacturing plants on the east bank of the River Uruguay, by the Botnia (Finland) and Ence (English), with the support of the Uruguayan government, provoked strong opposition from the Gualeguachú population and the Argentine government, and led to an international conflict is at issue now before the International Court in The Hague, where the government filed a claim for, inter alia, violation of bilateral agreements for the use of border river between the two countries.

Argentina argues that the production of one and half million tons per year cellulose, and discharge of highly polluting effluents into the river, in large volumes as planned, will cause grave and irreversible damage to health and economy of the inhabitants of the region, both Uruguayan and Argentine.

The Uruguayan government, for its part, rejects such extremes, says that pollution will be minimal and not affect the health of humans, but refuses to accept the intervention of a neutral international commission to assess environmental impacts. The Uruguayan government argues, moreover, an investment figure of almost two billion dollars and will generate a significant amount of jobs, when the unemployment rate in that country exceeds 12 percent.

In Uruguay, all parliamentary political parties, chambers of commerce, the trade union and the major mass media, support the installation of plants, based on the investment will help alleviate unemployment, while the opposition is reduced to small radical groups, the majority of non-governmental environmental organizations, a community of professionals concerned about environmental degradation and personalities of art and culture.



Opponents have signed several requested the government-between including one supported by many graduates of the University of the Republic, agronomists, chemists, biologists and other scientists, and one sent by the participants in the V World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, which subsequently acceded to numerous individuals to prevent the installation of plants, but announced he would continue supporting them. Given this, some sectors have raised, at least, be required to use the latest technology, ie the so-called TCF (Totally Chlorine Free), since it is a closed loop technique, almost no liquid effluents.

Despite the enormous risks involved and the use of the TCF does not guarantee that there is no pollution and it will occur anyway, due mainly to the huge volume of toxic substances to be discharged to the environment, water, land and air as a result of a large industrial process scale, the demand for its application, opponents contend, would be a less ominous to support the imposition of these plants whose installation will bring the country much more harm than good.

There are two central issues in this debate: the creation of jobs and the degree of pollution that cause these industries.

On this latter point is evident that has been withheld information to the public, both from companies and from government and from international agencies. For those who have always struggled for political life changes that promote social justice and greater independence of the great centers of power, it is hard to see how our current leaders and some leaders of the left, when the press refers to them, support their argument on a World Bank report endorses the government's position and enterprises around the insignificance of environmental damage.

Is now the World Bank reports are reliable?, When all life that institution has been marked by investing millions de dólares en informes técnicos cuyos resultados han sido, invariablemente, favorecer a las grandes empresas transnacionales en perjuicio de las pequeñas empresas nacionales, favorecer a los países ricos en contra de los países pobres y dentro de estos, favorecer a las clases ricas en perjuicio de las clases pobres. El eterno discurso del Banco Mundial -así como de otros organismos financieros internacionales similares- es: “hacemos lo que hacemos para favorecer a los pobres”, y el eterno resultado de las acciones de esa entidad es que los países pobres como el nuestro y a su vez los pobres dentro de cada país son los eternamente perjudicados. ¿Por qué razón tenemos que confiar ahora en los informes del Banco When World have always been harmful to people?

But it seems the height of naivete or of shamelessness "God knows" is that nobody seems to realize it was quite logical that the World Bank approved the loan, because lending money at interest is an activity main bank and the financial transaction were to materialize was a prerequisite that the environmental report was favorable to the plants. The audacity, the cheek on, these people have no limits: with a cynicism foolproof they put the pompous title of Ombudsman (Ombudsman) to the person who ran this operation financed by the World Bank to deceive unwary. And the sad thing is that so far have not heard such voices that question trick. Worse, to shame the people Frente leaders manage that report as if it were a revealed truth.

The Frente Amplio is the party of government in Uruguay. For its part, the Group Guayubira-questioning the installation of the plants, says the ombudsman's report confirmed his allegations regarding the inadequacy of environmental impact assessments (EIAs) carried out by companies and approved by the Ministry Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (MVOTMA) regarding the lack of adequate controls by the government regarding the lack of assessment de los impactos sobre diversos sectores económicos, en particular la agricultura, la pesca y el turismo, así como sobre las poblaciones, los sectores sociales y los individuos potencialmente afectados. Para mayor información consultar http://www.guayubira.org.uy/celulosa/Confirman_impactos.html .

Sin plantas no había negocio, con plantas, en cambio, se generaba otro buen negocio para el Banco Mundial, un negocio que para colmo de males vamos a tener que terminar pagando los uruguayos. Porque la empresa Botnia anunció que, en realidad, no tiene la plata que antes dijo tener y que no puede invertir lo que anunció que iba a invertir, y por eso le pidió prestado al Banco Mundial, pero no sólo, Silver also asked the Uruguayan government and granted various privileges, including generous tax exemptions (the area where the plant is built and the port have become free zone, among other perks). That is money we're going to have to put in our pockets all Uruguayans. So argue on the basis of a technical report null and void, smitten, and unethical by the conjunction of interests, is one big silly, but something even more serious.

As if that were not enough, the Uruguayan socialist government has now raised to Parliament a draft law providing exempt from all taxation in forestry, when This has historically been subsidized by over $ 450 million. Indeed, the new tax reform bill in Chapters 73 to 77, is exempt from all taxation in the forestry and related industries.

What it says World Bank report is that the pollution caused by Botnia and Ence will be really serious. In particular it will use ECF technology (meaning Partly Free Chlorine or Elemental Chlorine Free by its acronym in English). Is a technology that is about 15 years overdue on TCF system and its use is seriously challenged, restricted and controlled in developed countries.

Supporters of the installation of the plants argue that the ECF is safe for the environment, but numerous technical reports show exactly the opposite, because while reducing the harm caused by the old money system does not eliminate, as erroneously -ensures the emission of organochlorines or production of hazardous substances known as dioxins and furans.


these substances are precisely those that appear in the tissues of dead black-necked swans and other species of birds and fish in the Cruces River Sanctuary in Valdivia, Chile. Thirty thousand swans, emblematic in the region, have been killed since it began operating the Celulosa Arauco (Celco) using the ECF, the same system that Ence and Botnia say it will be safe on the River Uruguay. Arauco and the Chilean government said the same but now the mischief is irreparable and incalculable loss.
For more information on this episode www.accionporloscisnes.org recommend visiting.


According to the information handled by experts across the river (see www.noalaspapeleras.com.ar and http://www.blog.labrys.com.ar/2006/02/04/campana- c2% a1paren-to-the-paper ) the operative cause of these plants, including other damage, three major effects on water, air and soil: 1) the discharge of 86 cubic meters per day of toxic industrial effluent would have a devastating effect on the underwater life of the Uruguay River, 2) the emission of pollutant gases affect the atmosphere within a radius of 50 kilometers around, which would generate acid rain on the area and would fill the air with carcinogenic and bioaccumulative substances, 3) the accumulation of 150 tons per year of hazardous solid waste cause pollution of land and water groundwater, substantially modifying the existing balances.


turn for more information on the subject dioxins and furans see www.guayubira.org.uy / cellulose / CFI_BM_Critica_RAPAL.htm in citing, inter alia, the following sources: Carrasco Letelier, Leonidas. Environmental contaminants derived from pulping and bleaching of wood pulp (2004). Greenpeace. Pulp an paper (1992). Http://archive.greenpeace.org/toxics/reports/gopher-reports/chlora3.txt . Green Press Initiative (nd). Chlorine Free Products. www.greenpressinitiative.org / chlorinefreeproducts.htm . Rotard. Dioxins (1987). Www.media.payson.tulane.edu:8086/spanish/envsp/Vol324.htm . Stringer, Ruth and Johnston, Paul. Chlorine and Environment: An Overview of the Chlorine Industry. Kluwer Academic Publishers (2001).


Fanapel even to the modest plans to reconvert the TCF, it is a processing method that minimizes risk and reduces environmental damage, which are usually inevitable in this industry.

One wonders if a small domestic industry, as Fanapel that in Juan Lacaze produce between 30 thousand and 35 thousand tons of pulp, is able to diversify and use the TCF, why can not they do these monsters transnational provide a gigantic production, 50 times higher: one million tons Botnia and Ence half a million.
The reasons seem clear: the system is significantly cheaper ECF the TCF and the Uruguayan government has not bothered to apply to require the latter, which should as a minimum condition prior to the installation of these plants

Currently there are only two plants in the world to produce one million tons and are not in Spain or Finland, but in China and Brazil. The installation of these plants in Uruguay, which together will become the largest producer of cellulose and a half million tons annually, is part of a larger plan by the North to move much of the industry highly toxic to areas of underdeveloped countries. A strategy that meets several objectives, including: away from the core countries of the danger of pollution, which poisoned the poor, as in most poor countries are not developed environmental awareness or adequate means to control polluting industries, and produce significantly lower costs, tax privileges, tax exemptions, raw materials and cheap labor. This strategy is part of the imposition of a forest model based on monocultures of fast growing species in most underdeveloped countries.

THE STORY OF THE investments that generate employment

other hand, those advocating the installation of cellulosic argue that they are positive it will generate jobs. Nothing more false. It is true that, in part, for two or three years, during the construction of the plant will create some jobs in construction and complementary industries and services, but that's bread for today, hunger tomorrow.

actually only Botnia plant will employ about 300 people, most of which will be technical and a high percentage of foreigners. There will be only a few places for highly skilled workers and there are only eight people jobs for high school down. So the famous jobs for residents of Fray Bentos will be in anything, not thinking that generate some employment for some Uruguayan elsewhere, unless a technical or professional specially trained to work in the industry and has a similar fate to win the five gold, because if any jobs will be well inches.

But more serious is that the number of jobs that will destroy this industry will be significantly greater than those created. It lost hundreds of jobs in agriculture, in agriculture, beekeeping, fisheries, in hotels and tourism, among other important areas of the economy, not just the residents of Fray Bentos but throughout the country.

is reported that all activities economic in the rural areas, the forest is one that uses less labor, less even than cattle ranching, an activity that had the worst rate in the country before the initiation of afforestation. Just one example: ten thousand hectares of forest employ on average 45 people. In the same area gardening (an activity which is in the middle of the ranking table as a source of employment generation refers) provides 1330 jobs, ie, thirty times more than forestry.

According to agricultural census data of 2000 the number of permanent workers per thousand hectares of forest area is 4.49. The beef cattle herd generates 5.84 permanent jobs in the same area of \u200b\u200bland, while sheep ranching provides 9.18 jobs. And these, together with the production of rice (7.75), are the worst figures. At the opposite extreme are subsistence-based production (262 jobs per thousand hectares), poultry (211), wine (165), horticulture (133) and pig production (128), while in the middle houses the dairy cattle production (22), machinery services (20) and cereal and industrial crops (10).

addition, forestry jobs are of poorer quality, status and remuneration to the extent that they have been classified as slave labor. The experience of afforestation in the past twenty years reveals that this industry has destroyed ecosystems, fertile land has decertified suitable for livestock and agriculture, has expelled the settlers from their lands and destroyed hundreds of jobs in various areas, impoverishing the country and its future possibilities.


In the departments of Tacuarembó, Rivera and Paysandu, north of the country, thousands of settlers who leased plots for various crops, in most cases family farms or farms of small and medium sized producers, were expelled from their land by the owners for payment into plant eucalyptus or sell them to transnational afforestation. In those places where it is concentrated up to 200 people employed now just four pawns to keep large tracts of forested area. A series of notes by the journalist and social researcher Victor Bacchetta, published by the newspaper The Republic in August and September 2004, illustrates this process in greater detail and clarity. For Tacuarembó, between 1995 and 2004 the acquisition of one hundred thousand hectares for afforestation led to the displacement of about eight thousand people, according to the local magistrates, and the closure of seventeen rural schools. In that area are now working less than five hundred forestry workers. In Rivera, in a similar area and the same period, more than eighty estancias were abandoned.

However, there are those who refuse to lose the investment in afforestation and expense of the suffering of the rest of the country and the high risk of a serious environmental deterioration, pushing the government to become Uruguay in a forest country, ie stop being the "Uruguay Natural" whose image has been promoted in advertising and how to become a kind of banana republic of transnational forest.

Harm to the country will be enormous, particularly for the Black River department itself, whose spa Las Cañas, one of the most beautiful and most popular attraction in the country, located eight kilometers downstream of Fray Bentos, will be the biggest loser. Who will spend the summer in a place where it smells like rotten eggs? Who is going to bathe in the waters of a beach on which daily dumps thousands of gallons of chemicals hazardous to health, particularly the well-known persistent organic pollutants (POPs)? The jobs will be lost in the tourist area have not been evaluated but no doubt add a relevant figure.

Incidentally, to allow installation of cellulosic government violated international agreements The country signed the Stockholm Convention as to reduce the emission of dioxins and furans. Uruguay, against the world, will increase emissions of these substances.

But not only tourism in Fray Bentos will be resentful, also across the country and in particular the East Coast, because the image of "Uruguay Natural" has been badly damaged by this whole affair and the stubborn refusal Uruguayan government to listen to Argentine environmentalists protest and warnings from environmentalists caused Creole havoc on the country's tourism potential, particularly in the years ahead. Tourism accounted for in the year 2005 a high percentage of total foreign exchange earnings to the country, so threatening the continuity of this income is violating the country's economy and the interests of the country itself.

But the worst thing is that if the government maintains its stubborn position is a risk that the conflict with Argentina getting worse to the point of questioning the commercial relations with major buyers of our export production.

The Uruguayan union carriers, with export sectors, recently announced that the country lost more than thirty million dollars in the wake of this conflict. How long will the Uruguayan government maintaining a leading position in our economy and the country to critical situations and ruined?

the sake of defending a position favorable to the cellulose-untenable at this point, is threatening one of the keystones of the country's economy: exports to the Argentine market. We must not forget that the campaign to boycott certain products or brands, usually used as a way to combat the environmental organization Greenpeace, tend to greatly affect output and consumption of such goods.



On the other hand, when our international label "Uruguay, Country Natural consumers lose confidence to international tourism will suffer and the world begins to stop buying our products, do not say trees, but meat, hides, wool, dairy, cereal or any other "natural", what you'll say this government to the people? "Garlic and water?


If the installation of these plants brings so many problems and few benefits, why our leaders remain committed to support them. Do Frente not have asked why the main political leaders of the Colorado Party and National Party support the government on this issue in more almost fanatical leftists themselves?

course, seem to have noticed that has mounted a major media paraphernalia for plants, diligently to discredit any opposing view, identifying the matter as if it were a national cause permanent bombardment reminiscent of Goebbels methodology on information.

not because it benefits the country, is because such political organizations are involved in the forestry model, in particular Lacalle and company and therefore the Herrera leader expressed his unconditional support for Vazquez in this matter. What is based, then, the government's position? (See the final paragraph "The bribe, sharks and sardines).

A tip of the iceberg where to begin to understand such a mess seems to be the fact that much of the professional sector Uruguayan-lawyers, doctors, writers, architects and other professionals, as well as other areas of middle and upper class (banking and bankers) in the recent past made large investments in afforestation and now press the government to encourage the installation of the plants, which would give a quick exit, safely and economically without the cost of freight, to the thousands of trees now occupy much of the country.

is known that in the 80 and 90 spent many university graduates in forestry. Is paradigmatic for the boxes of professionals, notaries and banks, which have large forested. It is known that the guild bank (AEBU) supported an agreement between Botnia and the Bank Fund for this institution to provide wood to the Finnish crime. If we add to this background that some leftists still hold the illusory dream of returning to the industrial past, with many factories belching smoke from their chimneys and the growth of the industrial proletariat as the backbone of a future social revolution, then one can begin to understand why the left are very few who question this new barbarism to which we want to submit the rule and the Frente Amplio government more than tolerated, supported with unusual fervor.


The kickback, shark and sardine

Although the Uruguayan foreign minister has maintained that our government will not accept bribes, suggesting in an elliptical shape that did would have made the Argentine authorities, the been given the opportunity, it is undeniable that all Uruguayan political parties represented in parliament (including the Frente Amplio) and accepted the money companies put Botnia and Ence on the table to fund the travel of a large group of parliamentarians to the old continent who traveled with all expenses paid with the excuse of going to inspect the cells in their respective countries.

reality is that there is big money involved, these companies do not skimp on finance giant advertising campaigns either for or appeal to whatever means to win converts, and that the purchase of consciousness is in the order of the day. To have gone so far as to organize massive parties and give away tons of toys and school in the slums of Fray Bentos to capture the sympathy of the public. If you were not so gullible might think that this is pure demagoguery.

recently reported that the Botnia company paid just over four thousand dollars to an environmental leader Fray Bentos to act covertly among Uruguayan environmentalists in order to stop the demonstrations against the installation of plants, and influenced the Gualeguaychú citizen assembly to promote a level of understanding between the parties. The directors of the company publicly acknowledged that he had given to so-and only 50 pesos (about two thousand dollars) to take charge of such efforts, but denied that such conduct could be characterized as bribery.



Although all members of the squad leader would be so naive as pristine, there are some facts that can not be denied: because it is undeniable that the current government's position on this matter is fully functional to the interests of the United States. Clearly a strong Mercosur conspires against hegemonic plans of the empire. Especially with the coupling of Chile, Bolivia and Venezuela, a powerful bloc that would shape not only economic but also political and that in the short and medium term, could become at least great discomfort for the giant to the north.

why the United States lunges to the FTAA and therefore, for the purposes of its strategy, it is functional weaken Mercosur, as it will go. In this context, the controversy over the pulp and the increasingly bitter rift in relations between Argentina and Uruguay accrues to U.S. interests and goes against the interests of our nations. It is no coincidence, then, that some government voices begin to speak favorably of a possible bilateral free trade treaty with the United States. It fulfills the old law, the big fish eats the small.

The newly announced by President Vázquez in the headquarters of the empire, about the imminent departure of MERCOSUR Uruguay, not only confirms the sad suspicion: the old empire still rules, although people have voted for change and socialism . Again, the facts call for not relent in the fight for old dreams. Walter

Falco
Montevideo, May 2006.

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Uruguayan React, react!

Pulp Mills and environmental impact

URUGUAY REACTIONS, REACTIONS !

Uruguay Forest businesses have planted only in areas suitable for forestry, as marking the law, but also fertile land for agricultural production.

engineer According complaint Durán del Campo, the best agricultural and livestock fields Uruguayan has been earmarked for afforestation, pushing the productive sector debacle far more robust exporting country and, consequently, increasing unemployment and rural depopulation.

The nurse also accuses the political system lead to deception, as the promotion of forestry model aims hide it generates, in addition to pollution , unemployment and poverty.

Field To have to choose "between the delivery of the national heritage and dignity."

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by agronomist Daniel Durán del Campo
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Those of us some gray and have supported some dry in Uruguay, we know the equipment equilibrium of sandy soil and basalt, two soils with different features well defined. The surface basalt, rich in minerals, town fine pasture, when it rains even becomes one of the best soils of Uruguay. His problem is lack of water, surface fields feel the rigor of drought like no other.

The sand, however, coarser pastures producer, has featured a large winter deficit, a product of bad management (continuous grazing) but has a condition that makes it unique in regions such as this, where drought is a permanent scourge to livestock production.

are the fields that according to its structure more enduring dry. The Uruguayan soil composition gave a great balance to livestock. The basalt of Artigas, Salto, Paysandu, Durazno, was very close to the sandy fields of Rivera, Tacuarembo, Paysandu and Durazno, where it was very easy to move the cattle when they came times of crisis. Upon regaining climatic cattle returned to their place of origin and the balance was restored minimizing losses.

Today, forestry point topped the sandy fields, the best in the country. In them, besides farming, you can make soy, rice, summer crops, potatoes, seed because they have a superb water reserve. Uruguay had 750,000 hectares of afforestation and is the only country that did environmental impact.

The foresters, or dull or lazy, the bank took a clean sweep, so nobody reforested forest, fields, best, most productive, sandy soils. They themselves say that eucalyptus grows in Uruguay ten times more than in Finland. What takes to grow a tree eight years, eighty years in Finland accurate.

But the reality today is that the country is threatened with losing 600,000 thousand cattle, apart from the low weight loss and pregnancy you will have to bear the first export item Uruguay . And oddly enough, this has not been quantified.

is not transitory, in contrast, is going to be something permanent. Because the basalt between rice that took the best land, the most profound, a wealth exceptional varietal, an enviable biodiversity, thanks to those two actions has left him almost naked.

And oddly enough it has not been quantified, there has been no impact study. This affects more than 3,000,000 hectares of productive country we said we were going to drive.

What we know is that this is not chance, is the result of a policy of exchange rate appreciation, the Uruguayan producers lost a thousand dollars per hectare, which

field value equal to more improvements and property.

The result is in sight: broken families, suicides, depopulation, etc.. That set the boom of afforestation, unpaid taxes, which was incredible incentives such as plantations, that if a year the producer had 80% of plants were pinned him back the money he had invested. Import vehicles without tax ...

a rancher could buy a 4X4 P and paid twice what they paid a forest producer. What response would have been the country if a rancher that (the State) will lend money to young cattle, 80% had farmed and his money back? Would certainly be record production figures, we increased our workforce, would be populated and depopulated not our fields as does forestry.

With the God market standard (is) called for the efficiency, the best, most effective were those that succeed in this globalized world, subsidies were dirty word. In underdeveloped countries, taxes had to be hands off of the production systems. Of course, that was for livestock farming: For the forest, however: the red carpet.

Most of these foreign companies came to help us with their investments, marched to the B criollitos accused of reactionary landlords and operators.

result of this policy, today there are virtually no sandy fields intended for livestock. Islands are stuck in some facilities and these will be captured by plantation companies that give them (eucalyptus seedlings) * producers and ensure you purchase.

The Uruguay has to get an emergency bill banning the afforestation of sandy areas. Today the mills are installed (pulp mills), Uruguay is the first that would be required to make an environmental impact study, it does not. The World Bank says it is incomplete and the Botnia and Ence are not acceptable to be an interested party.

addition, throughout the process () has shown that companies are not credible for a number of actions to discredit and call into question their actions. Logical they did not come to a charity, came to do business. And business is round: exceptional land, cheap labor, port, (not) pay taxes in the country of origin, especially with the creation of three hundred job titles.

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Because after the (paper) pulp mill, the ish thousand workers employed in construction will be unemployed. And the 300 fixed will be replaced by robots. They said the workforce was to produce cutting eucalyptus and today we see it was replaced by the peelers who cut, stacked and loaded without the need for workers. Uruguayans may continue to believe in colored birds.

desperate political system has forgotten the most important thing a country is the dignity of its people to not be duped. You have to look forward: in fifty years when we have three million hectares of afforestation ruined by our children and grandchildren will have an impoverished country will be very hard on that for an economic mortgaged Uruguay.

Purification If Artigas had sold some of our heritage to survive and successive governments have done the same, we would not have country. Today you have to choose between delivery of the national heritage and dignity.

can not save a government that undertakes to save the national heritage. Uruguay: Argentina's right, we have violated a treaty, the only support of the smaller countries is right. Morning, the Argentines decided to put a sulfuric acid plant Charity Island and we will have to migrate from Paysandu. We have defended the treaty, if installed plants lose the river, future generations will be relentless with the Uruguayan political system. The Argentines are right, they do not have is authority. It is the most polluted in America, Mission to the population overwhelmed by its agrochemicals, four liters of glyphosate per hectare, a country ravaged by the expulsion of his country people.

bins (paper mills) and the our-of-the no one talks about the Black River and Juan Lacaze, pollute. But worse, the division, the damn division, tasteless jokes about the Argentine as a way to discredit and not to grab the bull by the Guampas and turn this debacle into a triumph of two fraternal peoples.

'll send this publication to: The Daily Telegraph, The Observer, El País, La República, Brecha, weekly Search and Three Points. Subsequently, another publication will confront our views with the Minister of Environment, architect Mariano Arana. In politics you always have to choose, vote to Tabaré, but today, between continuing to defend the government or Uruguay, we defend the country. Not a change, it means go on the line. Re nowhere near those responsible for this situation of chaos, whether they are traditional parties. Today we change the song, Tabaré says "Celebrate Uruguayans," I say, react Uruguay.

The day after the victory, in an effort to defend the Uruguay, proposed Agricultural Development Plan, we worked hard on this, we were delayed. Today, with 500 million dollars, we begun the changes. With that money borrowing (the government) went to change debt. We must, we are dependent.

* In the original copy of http://www.páginadigital.com.ar/ entreparentisada lack the phrase. The note is a courtesy of the writing team of EcoPortal.net: http://www.ecoportal.net/ (info@ecoportal.net).

Can Ms Cause Swelling Of The Face

Hope is a river in the front

World Environment Day
The hope is "a river in the front" *

already know: the main levers of the planet are in the wrong hands, driven mentality incomplete, immature, de-socialized. We may never in the history of mankind have taken policy decisions, economic, scientific and social frivolity more influence than today. The brain which all humans are endowed can develop special functions, and it seems that we are only using 20 percent of capacity. But along with the brain not included a "Manual", much less a regulation, a code of ethical use. This philosophical, social, spiritual is provided by the culture in which each brain develops.

The current Western hegemonic culture, more and more globalized, it is built on the pillars of economic and social relations of capitalism, as Max is essential to get the most profit possible in the shortest possible time. Around this simple purpose, and each turn all of the elements that make up the "West" today, their actions, institutions, laws, social relations and economic, scientific, ideological apparatuses and "cultural." The ethic that generates, installs and promotes, obviously, is functional.

Thus, the brain acquires its code of social osmosis, and all its action, its use, is adhered to obtain the greatest profit possible in the shortest time possible . All other variables and the actual consequences of actions taken on behalf of that maxim remain in a second, distant and pale range. Among them, the blind deterioration of the environment, and what is worse, the mortgage inconsulta fu ture of humanity.

The owners of those powerful levers are known, their names and photographs appear in magazines, TV programs, reports and even narcissistic enumerations based on competition as to who is the richest in the world this year. That's immature and rude.

The power they hold these people transformed, however, extremely dangerous. Much of institutionalized

is at your service. I have bought almost everything, and ultimately to the awareness of science available as majority-like their employers, is to do all that is possible as quickly as possible, with the sole condition that it be sold,

marketable. No one is interested in those areas answered if everything possible is desirable.

seems increasingly clear that environmental disasters, hunger, wars and discrimination of any kind global serfdom, the development of undeveloped and the entire future of the human species have no financial or economic origin, production or technological, legal or police, but ethical. As we saw, this dimension is spooky capitalism that uses subterfuge to hide their absence, the latest is the hoary old "social responsibility".

This systemic crisis creates invisible borders with areas where the dominant culture lose force and credibility, areas of strength and resilience. Some with the power of the ancestors, others in the chaos of imminent, many of them are ethical enough reserves to support the proposed "another world" built on other bases.

Workers and workers, urban and rural workers and farmers, all of them, occupy a position of enormous importance, is one of the key levers that move the world. For their efforts and capabilities accumulate an infinite amount of knowledge and learning, among which include the values \u200b\u200bof solidarity, mutual aid organization, struggle, resistance, class consciousness. All this favors the expression of ethical principles contrary to capitalism. To live in this society, workers are constantly bombarded by non-capitalist ethic. The just and necessary fight for wages, by income, should not overshadow other areas of consciousness, the exercise is vital for the working class closing ranks with the other groups, sectors and social organizations, like her, carrying the hope as a river in the f rente .

The World Environment Day, let's put the focus of our action and reflection in all the good you have to do rather than how bad it already has. We already suffer daily.

Despite tecnofuturistas prophecies, the phrasing of the snake charmers and social anesthetics available on every corner, we are a part of society that has chosen to be pregnant with hope and change capabilities. The other world is possible when you build social ethics, with justice, peace, respect for diversity and the environment, inclusive and equitable future generations.

imperative that construction for the supply of workers is essential.

Yesterday morning we were already.


Carlos Amorin
© Rel-UITA
June 5, 2006


SIREL # 1274 * The expression belongs to the Argentine poet Higinio Mena.

Taken www.uita.org.uy

Blue Print On Swing Sets

The love of the land, environment, life.

In 1854 the president of the United States sought to buy the land to an Indian tribe, but the chief seattle responded with a letter in which he also revealed his love for land, environment and life, its philosophical, poetic quality, and above all, his ability to foretell the ecological disasters that cause the white man.

A century later his words are turning on the emotion in those who have not resigned themselves to collective suicide vigorously pursued with dreadful human species, encourage those who still hope for a better life. Let us listen with deep respect and open the doors of the soul to a message that it is so necessary.

LETTER FROM CHIEF SEATTLE

How can you buy or sell the sky, even the heat of the earth? This idea is unknown to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water How can you buy?. Every part of this land is sacred to my people. Every shining pine bush, every grain of sand on the shore, every mist in the dark woods, every hill and to the sound of each insect is holy in the memory and the past of my people. the sap which courses through the trees carries the memories of the Reds.

The white man's dead forget the country of origin when they understand his walks among the stars, but instead our dead never forget this beautiful earth, for it is the mother of the red. We are part of the land and it is also part of us. perfumed flowers are our sisters, the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers. the steep cliffs, the wet meadows, the body heat of the horse and man, all belong to the same family.

For mud that, when the Great Chief in Washington sends us el mensaje de que quiere comprar nuestras tierras, nos está pidiendo demasiado. También el gran Jefe nos dice que nos reservará un lugar en el que podamos vivir confortablemente entre nosotros. El se convertirá en nuestro padre y nosotros en sus hijos. Por ella consideramos su oferta de comprar nuestras tierras. Ello no es fácil, ya que esta tierra es sagrada para nosotros.

El agua cristalina que corre por ríos y arroyuelos no es solamente agua, sino que también representa la sangre de nuestros antepasados: Si les vendemos la tierra, deben recordar que es sagrada, y a la vez enseñar a sus hijos que es sagrada y que cada reflejo fantasmagórico en las claras aguas de los lagos cuenta los sucesos y memorias de la vida de our people. The murmur of the water fall is the voice of my father's father. The rivers are our brothers they quench our thirst, they carry our canoes and feed our children.

If we sell you our land, you must remember and teach their children that the rivers are our brothers and so are his, and therefore they should be treated with the same gentleness with which you treat a brother.

know that the white man does not understand our way of life. He does not know the difference between a piece of land and another, since it is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother but his enemy, and once again conquer moves on, leaving the tomb their parents not caring. They kidnapped the land to their children. Does not care. Both his parents' grave as the heritage of their children are forgotten, treats his mother the earth, and his brother, the sky, as things to be bought, operated and sold like sheep or beads. His appetite will devour the earth, leaving behind only a desert. There is no quiet place in the white man's cities, and no place to hear how open the leaves of the trees in the spring or how insects flutter.

But perhaps this must be because I am a savage who does not understand. The noise only seems to insult the ears. And after all. What is the life if a man can not hear the lonely cry of the whippoorwill or the arguments of the night frogs around a pond?. I am a red man and do not understand. We prefer the soft whisper of wind on the surface of a pond and the smell of the wind itself, cleansed by the midday rain, or scented with pine aromas.

The air is precious to the red and that all beings share the same breath, the beast, the tree, man, we all breathe the same air. The white man does not seem aware of the air you breathe, like a dying man dying for many days is numb to the stench. But if we sell our lands should remember that the air is invaluable to us, that the air shares its spirit with the life it supports. The wind that gave our grandfather's first breath of life, also receives his last sigh. And if we sell you our land, you should keep them as something apart and sacred as a place where even the white man can taste the wind scented flowers of the prairies.

therefore consider its offer to buy our land. If we decide to accept, I will put a condition: The white man must treat animals in this land as his brothers.

I am a savage and do not understand other lifestyle. I've seen a thousand rotting buffaloes on the prairies, shot by a man from a train. I am a wild and do not understand how a smoking machine can matter more than the buffalo that we kill only to survive. What would the man without the beasts?. If all were exterminated, the man would die from great loneliness of spirit. Because what happens to animals will also happen to man. All things are connected.

should teach their children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of our grandfathers. inculcate their children that the earth is enriched with the life of our neighbors so they know to respect it. Teach your children what we have taught our children that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth will happen the children of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves. This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons they land. Man did not weave the web of life, he's just a thread. Whatever he does to the web, he does himself.

Even the white man, whose God walks and talks with him as friend to friend, is exempt from the common destiny. After all, you might be brothers. We'll see. We know one thing the white man may one day discover: our God is the same God. You may think He now belongs to them, just wanting to own our land, but it is not. He is the God of men and his compassion is shared equally between the red and the white man. This earth is precious to Him, and if damaged would cause the wrath of the Creator. Whites also be extinguished, perhaps sooner than other tribes. Contaminate your bed and a night perish drowned in their own waste.
But you walk towards its destruction in glory, inspired by the power of God who brought you to this land and for some special purpose gave dominion over it and on the red. That destiny is a mystery to us, because we do not understand why they exterminated the buffalo, wild horses are tame, clip the secret corners of the forest with the encouragement of so many men and stuffs the landscape of lush hills with speaker cables. Where is the thicket? Destroyed. Where is the eagle? Disappeared. Life ends and begins survival.