Comments on: Mexican Farmers say mine will destroy grazing land http://intercontinentalcry.org/mexican-farmers-say-mine-will-destroy-grazing-land/ Intercontinental Cry provides news, commentary, videos, and media alerts concerning the world's Indigenous population. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:04:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: JN http://intercontinentalcry.org/mexican-farmers-say-mine-will-destroy-grazing-land/#comment-2658 JN Sat, 02 Aug 2008 03:08:30 +0000 http://intercontinentalcry.org/?p=1958#comment-2658 Here here Ck - you are right on the money; this is clearly a case of a group of disgruntled locals who have done the math on recent high prices of metals and now expect to participate in the benefits without having taken any risk whatsoever. I believe that Minefinders is being supported by the Mexican government - Mexico is being intelligent about its mining operations; unlike those o Ecuador and Venezuela who are to keen to spread the equity among the local populous and therefore kill the golden goose. They employ about 600 people in the area I believe and have invested extensively in schools and so on in the area for the local population. Here here Ck - you are right on the money; this is clearly a case of a group of disgruntled locals who have done the math on recent high prices of metals and now expect to participate in the benefits without having taken any risk whatsoever. I believe that Minefinders is being supported by the Mexican government - Mexico is being intelligent about its mining operations; unlike those o Ecuador and Venezuela who are to keen to spread the equity among the local populous and therefore kill the golden goose.

They employ about 600 people in the area I believe and have invested extensively in schools and so on in the area for the local population.

]]> By: CK http://intercontinentalcry.org/mexican-farmers-say-mine-will-destroy-grazing-land/#comment-2639 CK Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:52:21 +0000 http://intercontinentalcry.org/?p=1958#comment-2639 the key points are already in this PRESS RELEASE by PRODESAC AC and its a testimony against the representatives of the Huizopa Ejido community the company has been 14 yrs in this area, and there was no witch hunt, now as the company is about to go into production, all of a sudden, these representatives step forward to jeopardise the companies operations at a critical milestone. This is blackmail, plain and simple. (in fact, I understand all major mining companies in Mexico face the same type of blackmail at one point or another, very lucrative, no risk high payout deal for these blackmailers for sure) Check out www.minefinders.com on what they have done for the local community and the proportion of locals they have hired. In particular, see that the natives were just subsistence farmers, very tough life and it has improved since the company started building facilities for them. Mining exploration business adds to the impoverised rural Mexican community (builds schools, churches, provide jobs, etc), but the reality is that many of these mining juniors fail due to the risky nature of exploration. For each one that is successful, hundreds may fail trying. (if the mexicans were so sure of their own mineral deposits, they should be taking the risk of exploration themselves to begin with, but interesting ly only foreign companies are doing so) This devious recipe for the politicised representatives of the locals to come in to blackmail jeopardises the mutually positive relationship betw the locals and the company. If this becomes the standard practice, companies will shun Mexico, for other low cost countries with good deposit potential, e.g. China. The eventual sufferers are the local natives; back to subsistence farming. (you say you need all the undeveloped mountain land for farming, sure, go ahead.. with subsistence farming let's see how much ground you can cover) If these local reps are so keen to share in the few successful mining stories, they ought to share in the many-many failures. but are they willing to do so? no, because they are only opportunists, they add nothing to the community, they do not add jobs, they do not build schools, they just come in to stir up emotions, widen divides and build up momentum for a blackmail. Minefinders is clearly not the only mining company in Mexico, the local rep should take the argument to the national level and boot out **all the miners.. But they have not done so and they will not, blackmailers need the goose to be around to milk it, no good when it's gone. the key points are already in this PRESS RELEASE by PRODESAC AC and its a testimony against the representatives of the Huizopa Ejido community

the company has been 14 yrs in this area, and there was no witch hunt, now as the company is about to go into production, all of a sudden, these representatives step forward to jeopardise the companies operations at a critical milestone.

This is blackmail, plain and simple.

(in fact, I understand all major mining companies in Mexico face the same type of blackmail at one point or another, very lucrative, no risk high payout deal for these blackmailers for sure)

Check out http://www.minefinders.com on what they have done for the local community and the proportion of locals they have hired. In particular, see that the natives were just subsistence farmers, very tough life and it has improved since the company started building facilities for them.

Mining exploration business adds to the impoverised rural Mexican community (builds schools, churches, provide jobs, etc), but the reality is that many of these mining juniors fail due to the risky nature of exploration. For each one that is successful, hundreds may fail trying. (if the mexicans were so sure of their own mineral deposits, they should be taking the risk of exploration themselves to begin with, but interesting ly only foreign companies are doing so)

This devious recipe for the politicised representatives of the locals to come in to blackmail jeopardises the mutually positive relationship betw the locals and the company. If this becomes the standard practice, companies will shun Mexico, for other low cost countries with good deposit potential, e.g. China. The eventual sufferers are the local natives; back to subsistence farming. (you say you need all the undeveloped mountain land for farming, sure, go ahead.. with subsistence farming let’s see how much ground you can cover)

If these local reps are so keen to share in the few successful mining stories, they ought to share in the many-many failures. but are they willing to do so? no, because they are only opportunists, they add nothing to the community, they do not add jobs, they do not build schools, they just come in to stir up emotions, widen divides and build up momentum for a blackmail.

Minefinders is clearly not the only mining company in Mexico, the local rep should take the argument to the national level and boot out **all the miners.. But they have not done so and they will not, blackmailers need the goose to be around to milk it, no good when it’s gone.

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