The assembly of the 32 communities that make up this town today launched a 24-hour ultimatum to the Chinese company JDC Minerals to take their machines and leave the mine La Lupe, whose exploitation restart intended to extract gold, silver and copper.
The crowded meeting, attended by about 5000 people, men and women, old, young, girls, who started the day today at eight in the morning with a march of about three kilometers from Tlamanca up the hill La Lupe , affirmed the decision of the board of this population auxiliary block the dirt road leading to the mine, which city police executed installing two metal poles with a chain to prevent the passage of the Enterprise crew.
In addition, the assembly unanimously agreed, freehand, that the mayor, Victor Manuel Iglesias Parra, PRD extraction, the company refuses to permit it needs to operate, land use change, and their conformity to the National Defense Secretariat will permit to transport and use of explosives.
The munÃcipe expressed its willingness to carry out the decisions of the assembly, although it has been said, warning that something might happen to his family or him, as they have killed several mayors such companies: My answer was that we're all going to die, the difference will be that a younger and more oldies.
Previously, during the march, the quotas of each community in the municipality went up the hill to the entrance of the premises of the company, to shout their opposition to mining, because, say, pollution generated by their activities harm the health of the springs and affect people, land and crops of living. No to mining, yes to life, repeated.
In banners and placards, inhabitants of this mountain village; will also requiring the federal and state governments that have productive investment in agriculture, livestock and forestry. Even a group of youths carried a blanket written in Chinese and Spanish with the legend does not want pollution, not mine, when asked who taught Chinese replied: Google translator.
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