enviroment.........who care....nothing there........no money,don`t like this job.

Contamination of water sources is a serious danger for LA/C peoples, Cuban epidemiologist Enrique Beldarrain said Thursday in Guatemala.

According to Beldarrain, an adviser of the Latin American Water Court, the situation in the region is critical because there are few reserves of freshwater on the continent.

Opencast mineral extraction, the electronic industry and other activities harm watersheds, due to the use of chemical products and heavy metals that end up in rivers, lakes and other reservoirs.

Beldarrain said there are technologies to reduce water contaminants, but governments must require companies to use them.

The scientist said that instead of fighting contamination, consumption of purified and bottled liquid is fostered, generally by large transnational companies.

Beldarrain will attend Water Court hearings, September 8-12, in the city of Antigua Guatemala, to analyze accusations presented by regional communities on poor use of water resources.

Capitalist "investment" is increasingly the export of filthy and disease-producing companies to poor countries that offer an hospitable "investment climate" free of government regulation or environmental responsibility.

CAFTA , for example, gives imperialist companies the power to ignore or challenge environmental and labor labor laws of the non-USA member countries of CAFTA if the laws are seen as interferences with the operations of imperialist companies.

Chevron recently ignored labor law in DR.

In theory, the non-USA members can ignore or challenge by international arbritration US environmental and labor laws, but this is another CAFTA joke.

Jaime David Fernández Mirabal is most likely scared to death of the job.

The Falconbridge nickel mine contaminates the water in the Caño Ancho, Rincon Sucio and Ajiaco streams.

But Falconbridge will make the suave and debonair Fernández Mirabal tap dance ...wildly ... if he tried to regulate the company.

"When two people meet and talk about a topic, it’s the most important one who must refer to the issue," the DT quotes the suave and debonair Jaime David Fernández Mirabal.

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So, if he has something on his mind, he won't open his mouth unless the other person speaks first.

Is this the kind of person who can protect the environment?

"Jaime, is there anything you want to talk about?"

"Not unless you mention it first, Leonel."

"So, Jaime, if I don't mention it first, you dont want to talk about it?

Well, Leonel, I still want to talk about it, but I can't do it."

"Jaime, I wish all my ministers were like you. Not even the King of Spain can silence them."

I can't read this article. Too much smog in the outdoor WIFI zone.

We need more transparency! What just happened? Something is weird about this case.