With the beginning of this April came more good news : Interjet company made its first flight on biofuel from jatropha and thereby "change the history of aviation in Mexico."
Despite the negative experiences that monoculture plantations have been shown in various places which have been imposed: forest deforestation and desertification of their lands, violations of basic human rights such as access to (owned) housing, water, food, health and territory, use of highly polluting pesticides and loss of food sovereignty (where monoculture planting is not possible to plant other crops for human consumption) in Mexico was willingly introducing a more of them.
Several state and national media ( El Universal, Diario de Chiapas , Digital Contact ) covered the happy Ecojet your first commercial flight demonstration, an Airbus 320 that departed International Airport of Mexico City to Tuxtla Gutierrez, whose passengers were honor entrepreneurs and senior government officials, among whom was the governor Juan Sabines Guerrero.
News focused on highlighting the important role of the state of Chiapas in energy generation "friendly the environment. " Then, the wide range of scientists, researchers and civil organizations that work daily to environmental projects with different communities in the state, called attention to the bias that the newspaper La Jornada gives this information by choosing to interview the executive director of " Conservation agency recognized International
What is not mentioned in this note (or any related notes which were published in this newspaper) is that Conservation International is one of many environmental organizations functional the interests of large corporations transnational manage to cover their financing and legitimize their economic interests through the discourse of organizations civil society, when in fact, in this case, representing the mining company Barrick Gold, oil companies BP and Shell, CEMEX cement, technology industries such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Sony and food industries such as Coca-Cola, Kraft Foods Inc., McDonald's, Monsanto or the same Walmart, just to illustrate with some .
The seventh item of Millennium Development Goals proposed by the UN to the government enthusiastically state joined last year, relates to environmental sustainability and has made room for projects to pay for environmental services by communities that supposedly would benefit the consequences are already paying less than a year after its implementation.
Another of the interviewees is the same president of Interjet, German Miguel Velasco, who said that biofuels are reactive with the regional economy as well as combat unemployment and poverty .
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Does not that sound familiar phrase from other state projects vanguard as the cultivation of African palm , the rural cities sustainable and carbon credits in the Lacandon jungle? All generate employment, increase the development of local communities and improve the quality of life of farmers who historically have cared for those territories.
The first project for biofuels in the region was with the cultivation of African palm (see documentary Deserts Oil) which arrived in Mexico sponsored by large agribusiness companies such as Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Henkel, Cognis and Cargill. Shortly after they suffered in the flesh after planting, will wait 7 years before starting a profit. During the short period that has production, farmers are forced to transport their production (absorbing the cost) to the factories that belong to the same companies that sell and buy seed production to price themselves also provided. After 25 years, the palm leaves of producing, leaving a depleted field. All this without the government promoted him to mediate in favor of "their" people. The benefits are, again, for big business .
accomplices policies that our government of Chiapas has been implemented in more depth since the nineties only respond to foreign economic interests and are functional to the current capitalist system predator. This has been further deterioration in the quality of life for residents through the promotion of large areas of monoculture, forced displacement and missing or false political consultations to people directly affected. Not to count on the rest of the population also suffer the consequences of water scarcity, the death of forests and ecosystems and ever-increasing privatization of the basic elements of survival. We can not say that at least breathe because the air is free. Are therefore welcome the good news .
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