For more than three years torrential rains flooded the central and northern Chiapas. The rain damaged more than 1 200 families in 34 municipalities. This disaster, coupled with the ineptitude of dredging strategies of the National Water Commission (Conagua) and the Commission Federal de Electricidad (CFE), kept under water to 404 houses of 33 villages and 960 hectares productive for more than three months. of all concerned, the village of Juan de Grijalva suffered the worst fate: it was buried by the breaking away of a mountain in the municipality of Ostuacan in northern Chiapas.
Shortly after the tragedy, both the government as "philanthropic" tended his hand in solidarity to the people of Juan de Grijalva. Two years later he erected, brand new, Nuevo Juan de Grijalva, the first City Sustainable Rural (CRS) in Mexico.
From a poor village, Juan de Grijalva had become a leading city that had all the services that any Mexican could wish decent housing and basic services quality, drinking water ; treatment plant, sewer , P lanta wastewater treatment, electricity and public lighting using solar cells ; communications tower with fixed and mobile telephony, Internet and network access information; comprehensive basic education center equipped with advanced technology; kindergarten, primary and secondary ; and Health Center expanded services with an area of \u200b\u200btelemedicine equipment and technology. In addition, the inhabitants of the newly released city provided an opportunity for decent and gainful employment. were launched intensive productive projects such as greenhouses, nurseries, packing tomatoes, poultry farms and a dairy processing plant. Also accelerated restructuring of production, which allows residents to keep their land by replacing traditional crops other high commercial value. all sounded too good to be true. And indeed, the dream became a nightmare. The city was from the beginning doomed to failure. There was not even willing to make a decent project: the houses are traps, basic services are inadequate, health centers do not even have doctors, etc. But beyond these " details " , the new town is part of a statewide program to rearrange the scattered population. It is as if we were in the sixteenth century, to create authentic Indian villages .
With the excuse that most of the villages of Chiapas are scattered and high dispersion difficult to provide services and economic and social development of communities, the Rural Towns Program aims to focus on rural people in small villages. The aim is twofold: first, sell and use land for farmers (with the participation of large firms) and, on the other hand, concentrate the inhabitants of several towns in one place for who will serve as the industrial reserve army .
Believer The People of the Parish of San Pedro Chenalhó manifests itself in these terms:
We are concerned that the draft rural towns are imposed and not consulted the people whether you agree or not, and if you do some consultation is based on lies and omissions, the government says clear what actually brings this mega project if it is for good or ill of the people by example does not explain what "productive reconversion" who are the beneficiaries of this conversion. Rural towns not invented state and federal government of this administration, but has a story many years ago, for example, from the colonization of Latin America at that time were not called rural towns were known as reductions of, with the aim of making easier and more efficient control of the population to collect taxes (taxes), used as labor for the mines, plantations (the most frequent was the sugar cane) and the same construction of cities in the English and of course, for political and military control. It is true that then, as now, argued that there would also be benefits for the population directly affected, that the population density can provide "access to basic services of potable water, education, health, etc.." According to fighting poverty here in Chiapas.
have to look at the CRS in a broader context. On the one hand, in 2008 the presidents of Colombia Mexico and other Central American countries signed a trade agreement Plan Mesoamerica (new version of the Plan Puebla Panama). The purpose of this plan is to create infrastructure and trade corridor that connects southern Mexico to Colombia and that this area serves to big capital. On the other hand, the political and economic plan of the World Bank outlined in the report New economic geography argues that economic integration is the way essential to bring development to all corners of the world. This report emphasizes the population density as a key factor for economic development of any country.
Building Santiago El Pinar, the second CRS, clearly unveiled another facet of the project: this is a counterinsurgency strategy devised by the Chiapas government against the Zapatista Army National Liberation (EZLN). Located very close to the Zapatista autonomous municipalities , San Juan de la Libertad and San Andrés Sakamch'en, "City" breaks down traditional ways of life and requires people to enter the capitalist mode of production of small external market-oriented property. Clearly, the CRS is a challenge to snails Zapatistas, who have built systems of health, education and production and real self. seems that the government forgets that he is dealing with the same people who took up arms in January 1994, a worthy and increasingly conscience. As mentioned so far have established two CRS: New Juan Grijalva and Santiago El Pinar, there are three under construction: Jaltenango, Ixhuatan and Emiliano Zapata, and the last in the process of being built: Copainalá. Obvious that private interests are a fundamental component of the CRS so does not take much imagination to know who the real beneficiaries of this project. Some companies (among which stand out Telmex, Fundación Azteca, BBVA Bancomer, Banamex, Grupo Carso, Farmacias del Ahorro and Coparmex) operating through its employees at the third level (the governor and his cronies), and colleges (IPN and UNACH) are who have advised, assessed and supported with financial resources the construction of "self-sustaining cities." All have a place of honor in the Advisory Council of the CRS .
As if it were more acid humor, these companies have their place within the very broad commercial corridors included in the plans of these "cities" in places where little is known about the money and people are still dying of curable diseases. Now, residents will not only be free to sell their labor power but also be free to obtain micro-loans unpayable, cell phones, appliances fertilizers little ones, and other benefits that brings the modern world.
In fact, the two Sustainable Rural Cities are a calamity for their recent people. The plan promoted by the government is only focused to benefit the companies involved in the construction of these cities. We all need to inform ourselves about these illusions and publicly denounce the government's plans. The CRS affect the communities of Chiapas and are intended to sell the land, making it serve large multinational corporations, focusing on the "cheap labor, destroying ancient farming practices, impose development models and insert communities in the circle of capital gain. We conclude with the words of the Civil Society Bees:
We are not the only ones who know that this project [of rural towns] is part of the Mesoamerican Project before Puebla Panama Plan. This plan did not start with the bad government of Calderon or Sabines, but from Salinas de Gortari when he signed the NAFTA which caused the uprising of our Zapatista brothers and sisters in the year 1994.
[...] Now they say we no longer slaves but just to make us work in Mesoamerica Project plans of mines, sweatshops and plantations. This explains the campaign that is beginning to bad government. This campaign
bad government is to have what he calls a productive restructuring. Not far explains why this is, but we understand he does not want to sow the fields, and other ancient foods and is best sown palm and pine, the reason supposedly to prevent fires. But what we see is that with the corn and beans we nourish ourselves, with palms and pine nuts, plans to produce biofuel, or feed the cars and trucks. Did the car have more right to food of Mother Earth than we are?
bad government is to have what he calls a productive restructuring. Not far explains why this is, but we understand he does not want to sow the fields, and other ancient foods and is best sown palm and pine, the reason supposedly to prevent fires. But what we see is that with the corn and beans we nourish ourselves, with palms and pine nuts, plans to produce biofuel, or feed the cars and trucks. Did the car have more right to food of Mother Earth than we are?
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