in Mercedes, Corrientes Province Clarín Group vice-president to plant a river privatized arrozPublicado on August 8, 2010
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Fernando José Antonio Aranda, in partnership with George Soros , build a dam and flood 8 000 hectares (half of the Federal Capital) to fulfill his dream employer. The complaint of producers. Termination of Landriscina son. Imagine
half of the City of Buenos Aires buried under water. That will be 8000 hectares of the town of Mercedes Corrientes. To achieve regulate the water from a stream that will irrigate 20 000 hectares of rice. Gallery forests disappear over 137 kilometers and numerous native species. Be the first time in Argentina to a watercourse, public domain, in the service of private entrepreneurs. This is Ayuí Grande Dam, a monumental work facing the vice president of Grupo Clarin, Jose Antonio Aranda, in alliance with the Hungarian billionaire George Soros.Los who oppose the project say there is more aggravating: whether the Legislature as endorsed the provincial government. "It's crazy to allow such developments. Only a history of similar works are performed when the state as public works for the benefit of all people, to provide electricity, for example. But in this case are two entrepreneurs who take a river only for profit ", denounced the Argentine Time Aníbal Parera biologist. Mary Vallejos is one of the many voices of the town of Mercedes who rose against the enterprise. Speaking to this newspaper, sums up his position and highlights how difficult it is to install the item in local and provincial media: "At first it was almost impossible for the media would reflect on our claim. The companies made an impressive campaign. He even promised 100 thousand dollars to the local hospital. They are the powerful interests behind it. We are aware that we are giving a very uneven battle. "But the struggle to win the tug of war of public opinion was not only limited to the media in the province. The controversy was settled in the national media, when in 2008 the Canal Rural, which is a shareholder in Grupo Clarin, criticized a program where they interviewed Luis Enrique Landriscina Lacour, President of Fundación Ibera, the main NGO that opposes the construction of the dam (see box). Lacour himself knows that the project had approval from the top of provincial power. "I guess they will not oppose this project, look up and there is order. This is made or done, "said Mario Rujana personally Engineer, Auditor of Corrientes Institute of Water and Environment (ICAA). The commercial interests behind the venture have rice and last name. It is the business Copra SA, headed by Vice President of Grupo Clarin, Jose Antonio Aranda, and Adecoagro, George Soros (see box). But all agree that it is the most trouble Aranda which is to break ground . Soros fields and Aranda are neighbors. They are just separated by Ayu-Arroyo that his estate, the locals call "river" - the same who want to dam to exponentially increase rice production to reach 120 thousand tons. The wall that includes the construction of the dam will unite the two businessmen and will irrigate about 20 000 hectares of the 70 thousand that both are on the coast of surface water (see graphic). Most of the production is exported to Venezuela and to a lesser extent, Brazil. "They they talk about fucking Chavez, Venezuela exported everything," he adds ironically Lacour. "Don Aranda", as he is known in Mercedes, is a man of weight for livestock farming and rice in the region. He is currently president of the Bradford Argentina and has excellent arrival at the local Rural Society. The old people have always kept a low profile. Currents reached more than twenty years and was buying several courses in the area to reach the 40 000 hectares which is now mostly devoted to rice production (see box). There is a person who is responsible for ground Aranda Corrientes. Ricardo Freire is the counter, his right hand and trader in Mercedes, a city historically cattle that little by little you will resulting in the rice business. A Freire everyone knows him as "The Joker. Despite living four blocks from the offices of Copra, at 879 Sarmiento Street, comes every day in an impressive Jeep Cherokee black. After several attempts, spoke with Time: "There are certain sectors that generate distorted information. They want to stigmatize the rice, but we must understand that it is a crop that feeds the world. He has over 10 thousand years of history. There is a food production problem, quite the contrary, food production is to build world peace. The world needs food, and those who are able to produce, have an obligation to do so. "But where Freire sees economic progress and a contribution to world peace, environmental specialists emphasize the damage that the ecosystem will suffer .- Do not you concerned about the environmental impact occur?-All act of man implies an impact. This telephone is making an impact. The environmental impact exists because we are modifying certain region to develop the project, but always trying to cause as little damage as possible. But the biggest impact is the social and economic: create 1500 new jobs between direct labor and indirect. Given that over 50% of the population have problems working Corrientes and poverty, make such an investment I think is one of the key elements that the authorities had in mind for apoyarnos. "But water is a public good. It is illegal apropiársela. "The water is public property administered by the State, but we do not appropriate, we will give a concession to use water. In addition, Corrientes is a province where water is abundant and agriculture is barely 1% of land correntina cultivables.Es the history which contradicts the manager said Copra. Just knowing the history of Luis Picolini, a farmer in Paso de los Libres lived firsthand the devastating effects of a dam. It was in 1992 when Brazilian businessmen settled in the place and promised steady work and water for the fields. Opposite happened. Was only the clothes lines. As you tour the old plant of the field, recalls the early days with his father. Seeding started ten acres and grew to 200. But 18 years ago does not plant rice because the dam dried up riverbed downstream. It still keeps combines rusted and abandoned rice dryers with empty bins. Paradoxically, the field of Picolini called El Progreso. Ended only last year to cancel a loan from the National Bank for the purchase of a silo you no longer use. "In anger I left everything out there to rot. It is as a record of enslavement that I suffered, "says this newspaper distressed .- What do you think Ayuí Grande Dam?" The dam is now wanting to build twice as large as that hurt me me. Imagine the disaster that is going to be. I am living proof of the lies of these entrepreneurs and handling that make the people, promising things that never arrive. They say that there will be no dry as it had before, but a lie, when there are problems with the dam water they will regulate the water level. In so ambitious that are planted on the capacity of the dam is irrigation, then the water never reaches the other side productores.El has another controversial project. Providing affordable energy was one of the basic conditions, she says Enrique Lacour, Ibera Foundation to make the investment profitable. That was why Aranda began oiling the good relations that already had with the provincial political power. - How to get low-cost energy? "For such a project would have to get close low-cost electricity. Because fuel use did not give them business. Tone persuaded the province and the nation and managed to build a gas station lowers the high voltage line Yacyretá going to Buenos Aires, with the excuse that supplied electricity to the town of Mercedes, "complains Lacour .- How much energy consume? "They think eating three times what the city of Mercedes consume just to feed the dam. All simulates a energy reassurance to the community, but the real impetus is the construction of Rodriguez was born in Curuzú dique.Humberto Cuatiá but lives in Mercedes. 28 years ago is at the Laguna provincial ranger Ibera, 50 miles from where you want to build the dam. Is another of the voices that rise against Ayuí Project. "I thought the Ibera lagoon is 5500 hectares. And they intend to make an artificial lake overnight almost twice as high and above, say they will not cause harm. Clarín Group are not going to teach what is form an opinion. But this is too much. Here is arming the mini rice country and they are all accomplices. As serious is the antecedent, if a dam is built, everyone will want to build another and would be unstoppable, "said indignantly as guardaparque.A Ibera Foundation and a group of neighbors began to make the negative aspects of the project, to little population was informed of the true scope of the enterprise. At first, the idea of \u200b\u200bnew investment in the city had good reception. The promise of new jobs muchos.Sobre excites the economic benefit of course will work in the city of Mercedes, there are more questions than answers. A ranger from the Laguna Ibera holds that everything is part of a larger marketing campaign and little what will be in town, "Aranda and company need to play with people. It is sold as the panacea. "" They say that will create 1500 jobs JOB "It's a big lie. We all know that these megaarroceras have almost everything tech, labor they use is minimal. The bulk of the staff recruited will temporal.La María Inés Fagetti provincial deputy, president of the Ecology Committee of the Legislature, agrees. The creation of jobs, he says, is a mask that hides the true interests of the investment: "There will be work while the dam is built, but then will be very few. Rice ventures use less labor, mostly in black and up to appealing to labor. "provincial justice must be issued on the constitutionality of forest land, the former Governor Arturo Colombi decree authorized by the Legislature and then validated by a law ( see box). As the law in question is in effect, there is no obstacle to starting the works. themselves responsible for implementing Ayuí Grande Dam argue that the first bricks will be in September . However, Aníbal Parera biologist hopes that the court may reverse the situation. "It is unacceptable for employers private ownership of a water course which is a public good. It is strictly forbidden in the Civil Code. If you cross the creek was impressed by the beauty of the place, with palm trees, gallery forests and jungle. Do not enter anyone's head that all this is under water. "At the top of José Antonio Aranda and George Soros, yes
half of the City of Buenos Aires buried under water. That will be 8000 hectares of the town of Mercedes Corrientes. To achieve regulate the water from a stream that will irrigate 20 000 hectares of rice. Gallery forests disappear over 137 kilometers and numerous native species. Be the first time in Argentina to a watercourse, public domain, in the service of private entrepreneurs. This is Ayuí Grande Dam, a monumental work facing the vice president of Grupo Clarin, Jose Antonio Aranda, in alliance with the Hungarian billionaire George Soros.Los who oppose the project say there is more aggravating: whether the Legislature as endorsed the provincial government. "It's crazy to allow such developments. Only a history of similar works are performed when the state as public works for the benefit of all people, to provide electricity, for example. But in this case are two entrepreneurs who take a river only for profit ", denounced the Argentine Time Aníbal Parera biologist. Mary Vallejos is one of the many voices of the town of Mercedes who rose against the enterprise. Speaking to this newspaper, sums up his position and highlights how difficult it is to install the item in local and provincial media: "At first it was almost impossible for the media would reflect on our claim. The companies made an impressive campaign. He even promised 100 thousand dollars to the local hospital. They are the powerful interests behind it. We are aware that we are giving a very uneven battle. "But the struggle to win the tug of war of public opinion was not only limited to the media in the province. The controversy was settled in the national media, when in 2008 the Canal Rural, which is a shareholder in Grupo Clarin, criticized a program where they interviewed Luis Enrique Landriscina Lacour, President of Fundación Ibera, the main NGO that opposes the construction of the dam (see box). Lacour himself knows that the project had approval from the top of provincial power. "I guess they will not oppose this project, look up and there is order. This is made or done, "said Mario Rujana personally Engineer, Auditor of Corrientes Institute of Water and Environment (ICAA). The commercial interests behind the venture have rice and last name. It is the business Copra SA, headed by Vice President of Grupo Clarin, Jose Antonio Aranda, and Adecoagro, George Soros (see box). But all agree that it is the most trouble Aranda which is to break ground . Soros fields and Aranda are neighbors. They are just separated by Ayu-Arroyo that his estate, the locals call "river" - the same who want to dam to exponentially increase rice production to reach 120 thousand tons. The wall that includes the construction of the dam will unite the two businessmen and will irrigate about 20 000 hectares of the 70 thousand that both are on the coast of surface water (see graphic). Most of the production is exported to Venezuela and to a lesser extent, Brazil. "They they talk about fucking Chavez, Venezuela exported everything," he adds ironically Lacour. "Don Aranda", as he is known in Mercedes, is a man of weight for livestock farming and rice in the region. He is currently president of the Bradford Argentina and has excellent arrival at the local Rural Society. The old people have always kept a low profile. Currents reached more than twenty years and was buying several courses in the area to reach the 40 000 hectares which is now mostly devoted to rice production (see box). There is a person who is responsible for ground Aranda Corrientes. Ricardo Freire is the counter, his right hand and trader in Mercedes, a city historically cattle that little by little you will resulting in the rice business. A Freire everyone knows him as "The Joker. Despite living four blocks from the offices of Copra, at 879 Sarmiento Street, comes every day in an impressive Jeep Cherokee black. After several attempts, spoke with Time: "There are certain sectors that generate distorted information. They want to stigmatize the rice, but we must understand that it is a crop that feeds the world. He has over 10 thousand years of history. There is a food production problem, quite the contrary, food production is to build world peace. The world needs food, and those who are able to produce, have an obligation to do so. "But where Freire sees economic progress and a contribution to world peace, environmental specialists emphasize the damage that the ecosystem will suffer .- Do not you concerned about the environmental impact occur?-All act of man implies an impact. This telephone is making an impact. The environmental impact exists because we are modifying certain region to develop the project, but always trying to cause as little damage as possible. But the biggest impact is the social and economic: create 1500 new jobs between direct labor and indirect. Given that over 50% of the population have problems working Corrientes and poverty, make such an investment I think is one of the key elements that the authorities had in mind for apoyarnos. "But water is a public good. It is illegal apropiársela. "The water is public property administered by the State, but we do not appropriate, we will give a concession to use water. In addition, Corrientes is a province where water is abundant and agriculture is barely 1% of land correntina cultivables.Es the history which contradicts the manager said Copra. Just knowing the history of Luis Picolini, a farmer in Paso de los Libres lived firsthand the devastating effects of a dam. It was in 1992 when Brazilian businessmen settled in the place and promised steady work and water for the fields. Opposite happened. Was only the clothes lines. As you tour the old plant of the field, recalls the early days with his father. Seeding started ten acres and grew to 200. But 18 years ago does not plant rice because the dam dried up riverbed downstream. It still keeps combines rusted and abandoned rice dryers with empty bins. Paradoxically, the field of Picolini called El Progreso. Ended only last year to cancel a loan from the National Bank for the purchase of a silo you no longer use. "In anger I left everything out there to rot. It is as a record of enslavement that I suffered, "says this newspaper distressed .- What do you think Ayuí Grande Dam?" The dam is now wanting to build twice as large as that hurt me me. Imagine the disaster that is going to be. I am living proof of the lies of these entrepreneurs and handling that make the people, promising things that never arrive. They say that there will be no dry as it had before, but a lie, when there are problems with the dam water they will regulate the water level. In so ambitious that are planted on the capacity of the dam is irrigation, then the water never reaches the other side productores.El has another controversial project. Providing affordable energy was one of the basic conditions, she says Enrique Lacour, Ibera Foundation to make the investment profitable. That was why Aranda began oiling the good relations that already had with the provincial political power. - How to get low-cost energy? "For such a project would have to get close low-cost electricity. Because fuel use did not give them business. Tone persuaded the province and the nation and managed to build a gas station lowers the high voltage line Yacyretá going to Buenos Aires, with the excuse that supplied electricity to the town of Mercedes, "complains Lacour .- How much energy consume? "They think eating three times what the city of Mercedes consume just to feed the dam. All simulates a energy reassurance to the community, but the real impetus is the construction of Rodriguez was born in Curuzú dique.Humberto Cuatiá but lives in Mercedes. 28 years ago is at the Laguna provincial ranger Ibera, 50 miles from where you want to build the dam. Is another of the voices that rise against Ayuí Project. "I thought the Ibera lagoon is 5500 hectares. And they intend to make an artificial lake overnight almost twice as high and above, say they will not cause harm. Clarín Group are not going to teach what is form an opinion. But this is too much. Here is arming the mini rice country and they are all accomplices. As serious is the antecedent, if a dam is built, everyone will want to build another and would be unstoppable, "said indignantly as guardaparque.A Ibera Foundation and a group of neighbors began to make the negative aspects of the project, to little population was informed of the true scope of the enterprise. At first, the idea of \u200b\u200bnew investment in the city had good reception. The promise of new jobs muchos.Sobre excites the economic benefit of course will work in the city of Mercedes, there are more questions than answers. A ranger from the Laguna Ibera holds that everything is part of a larger marketing campaign and little what will be in town, "Aranda and company need to play with people. It is sold as the panacea. "" They say that will create 1500 jobs JOB "It's a big lie. We all know that these megaarroceras have almost everything tech, labor they use is minimal. The bulk of the staff recruited will temporal.La María Inés Fagetti provincial deputy, president of the Ecology Committee of the Legislature, agrees. The creation of jobs, he says, is a mask that hides the true interests of the investment: "There will be work while the dam is built, but then will be very few. Rice ventures use less labor, mostly in black and up to appealing to labor. "provincial justice must be issued on the constitutionality of forest land, the former Governor Arturo Colombi decree authorized by the Legislature and then validated by a law ( see box). As the law in question is in effect, there is no obstacle to starting the works. themselves responsible for implementing Ayuí Grande Dam argue that the first bricks will be in September . However, Aníbal Parera biologist hopes that the court may reverse the situation. "It is unacceptable for employers private ownership of a water course which is a public good. It is strictly forbidden in the Civil Code. If you cross the creek was impressed by the beauty of the place, with palm trees, gallery forests and jungle. Do not enter anyone's head that all this is under water. "At the top of José Antonio Aranda and George Soros, yes
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