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Fight Against Mining Santeña * Front

the people of Los Santos

not even know where we were. My colleague Rodney Saavedra had any idea at that goat to Tonosí could reach Cerro Quema, we only targeted names in memory: Arturo Moreno and Secundino Jaén, but nothing more. Maybe a lot of questions, How do we get? Will they be willing talk to us? Where do they live? Yes, we did not know where they lived and that bothered me a lot because the goat from Sabana Grande had traveled many miles, just over two hours of road surrounded by pastures, towering mountains, hundreds of Brahman cattle, men and women walking under Azuero sun another sun seems warmer. Nearly three hours and everything would Corotús and espaves covering of old, giant, beautiful, flowing rivers are segmenting the earth, full of life and it is impossible to stress because with all this around one more relaxed. My friend Rodney who is professional and knowledgeable conversationalist on idiosyncrasies of the people of his province asks a woman's post below, where you live Professor Arturo Moreno - ta 'mo- míhijo afar tells the lady I say when we're getting , and the converse is became a familiar conversation. This is in Los Santos, Los Santos is a whole family.

We stop on the banks of the River Burn and walked a few meters, we reached the house of Professor Moreno, Vice President of the Front, which did not ask who we were but he gave us a few pieces of fresh, cold watermelon. We talked at length, told us about mining in Cerro Quema as Santeña Front Against Mining has been organized to fight with a company, Minera Cerro Quema SA, with many economic resources, some of them for trying to buy consciences - Here we have offered money to stop fighting with them, we have offered cars, houses, everything you can imagine, but we will not accept nor dead, because this is our land, here we produce food and not eat gold. He told us that this is not new and is only fourteen years of struggle not smoke a pipe, fourteen years in which four governments have been in power, but as usual not much difference between a government and other lobbyists from Minera Cerro Quema SA and politiquetes corrupt seem immutable standard.

Professor Moreno brought us to where he was the Chairman of the Front Santeña Secundino Jaén. To our surprise, Mr. Secundino was working on a board floor at a spread to put a community house, courtesy is so fast that we do not have time to reject the chairs, we sat down and Mr. Secundino, a man hardened by the difficult rural life begins to speak with clear figures: -More than 45000 liters of milk produced in the District of Tonosí at 6000 thousand hectares, and the government does nothing, but to give our land there if you are mining concession day. This life is the only one we know, we are farmers but we are not any ignorant, we know that mining will destroy the earth and that will pollute the rivers. I do not know what people will do Chitre and La Villa, for all these rivers and creeks around here end up in the Rio La Villa and there is that draw water for consumption.

Jaén Moreno and spoke to us honestly, coinciding with the phrase "fight to the bitter end" against mining projects in the region, which include not only Minera Cerro Quema SA According to statistics Professor Miltiades Pinzón in 2009 in Ministry of Trade and Industry had submitted applications for metal mining on 200 thousand hectares of Azuero or 32.5% of the territory.

was time to leave for Rodney and me, is a stop even though these people so hospitable and the way back is hurting him one that all this beauty of our countryside can be disrupted for some karat gold.

---- * Published in the newspaper La Estrella de Panama on Saturday April 17, 2011. Thanks to Doris Hubbard graduate editor of the Opinion section and the cartoonist Peña Morán.