Obama arrives in Chile embark on nuclear energy.
The Nobel Peace Prize and the power of
corporations.
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Monday March 21, 2011.
Ernesto Carmona (special ARGENPRESS.info)
The repudiation "Nobel Peace Prize" Barack Obama leads Monday demonstrations against his visit to Chile, while the paraphernalia media reports that the government ordered Sebastián Piñera "exclusion areas" in Santiago and the deployment of thousands of police to stop people expressing their displeasure at the presence of the imperial master. For this afternoon announced protests in Santiago, Concepcion and other cities.
The visit is undesirable for numerous social and political organizations that reject the attack on Libya and not forget the U.S. involvement in the worst afflictions of Chile, as the coup against Salvador Allende in 1973, the worst tragedy this country in the 20 th century. As Obama makes political tourism in Brazil, Chile and El Salvador with his wife, two daughters and a retinue of 700 cohorts, took time from Brasilia to order the bombing of Libya on even non-military targets, arguing that just wants to "protect civilians "... killing them. Big media show that the world at will manage large US-led powers. The socialist JL Rodríguez Zapatero embarked on a war without consulting Congress, the bipartisan impoverished Spain appears as the tail of France, England and America, the true owners of this new war that the military was looking forward which serves industrial Obama on behalf of "democracy." So far have shown no interest in defending civil or democracy in Bahrain, which also has oil and is the headquarters of the V United States Fleet. Conversely, ordered the medieval monarchy of Saudi Arabia sent troops to support the tottering kingdom of the Al Khalifa, a name that says it all.
Obama visits Chile to give his backing to the alleged "Latin American leadership" Pinera, who supported the attacks on Libya, as well as Peru and Colombia, among others, and realize the agreement "nuclear scientific cooperation, signed on Friday. In other words, Obama came to sell nuclear plants Westinghouse and General Electric, with 86% of Chileans do not agree under any conditions have nuclear power plants ", according to a probing of the newspaper La Tercera.
The director of the NGO Terram, Flavia Liberona, said Chile's energy policy is not defined by the government but the business lobby: "... So far they have been, and barring major changes, will remain-the companies decide how, when, how and where to generate energy by raising projects and technologies they deem most appropriate. Unfortunately for the country, the motivations that drive private decisions are, evidently, only to maximize the economic benefits as quickly as possible, regardless of the common good or the needs of the country. "
The greater demand for nuclear energy comes from the big mining corporations. The high copper prices induce them to demand more and more power generation to extract more ore, virtually free, to increase their profits. For the government and corporations representing the executive branch, it is promoting what it calls "development", conceived as a model which effectively "develops" a minority business to the detriment of the majority. Since the end of the dictatorship, more than 20 years, the development model focuses each year wealth in a privileged sector, as in the Middle East, stressing the inequality in Chile.
copper wealth, which was nationalized by Allende and Pinochet privatized except that handles 30% Codelco, is increasingly concentrated in a few corporations and the criollo group Luksic, whose fortune stands at 19.2 billion dollars (Anglo American, Antofagasta Minerals Plc (Luksic group), Barrick Gold, BHP, JECO, IFC, Kinross, Mitsui, BHP, Rio Tinto, Xstrata and others).
Despite the serious accident Fukushima, Obama arrives today to Chile as atomic lobbyist to move to competition in February Piñera other commitments signed with France's Areva promotes technology and operation of GDF Suez, while Russia also wants a piece of cake through Intermash.
Piñera switched sides.
While Obama sells "rocket science", a moratorium prevents new plants in the U.S. since the accident grade 5, 1979 "Three Mile Island, population 70,000, 16 miles from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the worst to Chernobyl, which in 1986 amounted to 7 maximum for these disasters. On Friday Japan increased to 5 Fukushima gradation, but France, valued at 6. The media crush to Chernobyl, perhaps because it was "communist", but omit the frequent accidents in Europe and the United States and never refer to "Three Mile Island."
When the agreement came out of secrecy in these days, Piñera reiterated its commitment to nuclear energy for "development" but just 5 years ago signed the declaration on nuclear energy, no thanks "against another nuclear program Michelle Bachelet, who had just defeated in the presidential election. Now the country aims to embark on an adventure that spills over the 3 years remaining of government and bear fruit when highly developed nations have abandoned nuclear energy, as announced by the German model, Angela Merkel, who backed down, shut plants less older than 7 Fukushima for review and announced that one-off for repairs, will not ignite. The Germans began a democratic debate out of its nuclear reactors and develop more energy clean, safe for life.
U.S. questions on Iran's nuclear development while their own plants are unreliable, often generates accidents and neglect firms keep spent fuel rods, whose radioactivity persists for thousands of , as in the deadly pools of Shearon Harris, Progress Energy Corporation, in the wilds of North Carolina. The Fukushima reactor control are probably buried under concrete, as in Chernobyl, "but it is unclear the future of storage ponds for spent fuel rods, including those containing plutonium. The tragedy of Fukushima question the voracity of energy and monetary development model, that is, the essence of neoliberal capitalism, which offers plenty to few and many.
energy corporate dictatorship.
An early warning against atomic plans Piñera was launched by leftist senator Alejandro Navarro, of the Comprehensive Social Movement (MAS), which gave notice to the Mining and biministro Laurence Golborne Energy (the "hero" of the 33 miners), whom he called "principal promoter of this expensive energy, subsidized and dangerous." He said the minister "must decide on its current position on nuclear power in Chile after the disaster happened in Japan. If failed in Japan, which is a first world country and highly developed, what remains to Chile? "
Golborne, who served the group of supermarkets and shops Cencosud, Horst Paulmann -10.5 billion dollars, "formalized in February another nuclear program with France's Economy Minister, Eric Besson. The treaty established a "team" which was chaired by Gérard Mestrallet, head of GDF Suez, and Guillermo Luksic, representative of the holding Quiñenco (Antofagasta Minerals Plc), the Chilean family who owns the third fortune of the continent. Announced that the group "will work independently."
Copper mining is the main consumer of energy provide GDF Suez and AES Gener, which in 2009 was benefited by President Michelle Bachelet to Supreme Decree No. 68, which changed the standard imposed environmental and industrial use of land designated for green areas, allowing the construction of coal-fired thermoelectric Campinche in Region V (Valparaiso). The decree did away with a Supreme Court decision under pressure from the U.S. Embassy, \u200b\u200bthe details brought to light Wikileak.
While Piñera insists nuclear energy, other heads of state, including Hugo Chávez-check their position. "We can not act as if nothing had happened," said Angela Merkel, a few days before regional elections in which they play their political future. "We will suspend the extension of life of German nuclear power plants recently adopted. " Under pressure from the organized community, social and green, Germany took a path that leads to the end of atomic energy. Piñera walk backwards, from the hand of Obama, the manager "color" of the great neo-colonial capitalism.
Ernesto Carmona, Chilean writer and journalist .
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