Expreso Editorial
Mining
Clemente Haro Montalvo

The so-called miner mandate issued by the Assembly has lifted about four thousand concessions, many of them assigned to the repugnant and ominous smell of corruption. But have been granted more than five thousand and is presumably have not been cancelled correspond to some administrative acts completed subject to the law, and especially to public morality.

You can not, however, put their hands on fire by the latter, it is also likely, given the huge corruption that has prevailed in these acts, nor had been complied with the legal and ethical standards.

In any case the mandate has stopped, at least momentarily, the work of the exploitation of these mines, creating at once a conflict between militants of the official party, some of these very important, with the same president of the republic. The dispute concerns the position of environmentalists, whom the president has described as fundamentalists, who argue that the concessions should be assigned after the binding acceptance of the respective communities, dwellers, while the President argues that the exploitation mining can not be scrapped but should be governed by strict rules and the national interest.

The struggle has not been resolved yet, because there are six months through to the opening or closing concessions. But the resolution has stopped investing in companies that have interests in some of these concessions, including some whose reservoir, has been regarded as one of the world's largest gold. But not only this, but that has sent unemployment to several thousand, whose job would be spent on government programs vials, as the President has promised.

The mandate, especially Article 24, has left no possibility of appeal to dealers, violating universal norms of law, when what was needed was to specify the cases, leaving the possibility of an appeal to the Ministry of Mines and researching and identifying the irregularities and the perpetrators of these irregularities to receive the penalty. Because if the concessions were handed over so immoral, the authors should have already recovered, the weather is good, the price of corruption and its mandate does not require the investigation of irregularities were committed during perhaps because some governments, whose representatives are first the sympathy of the regime, promising even one of them an amnesty and, with respect to the other, are kept in the highest administrative functions to several of those who were his ministers.

Corruption in various governments of the era of dominance of cliques to which political parties are called, reached such extremes that you communicate everything from customs to the Armed Forces, involved in these matters were discussed publicly as the purchase of Disposable weapons and reinsurance of the famous London through environments near the early leaders, in their time, had a sustained suspicion, especially in influence peddling and even charges of falsifying signatures of the president. Of course, in large contracts of matters relating to oil, mining concessions, the renegotiation of external debt, telephony, corruption was a kind of condition for entry into such contracts, rampant violation of the rules of engagement public.

So the reversal of the mining concessions and contracting oil are two of the things that has reviewed the regimen and which carries quite right, but has left much to be desired in the absence of pointing responsible, since the Commission designated for investigation of the banking crisis told us what everyone knew and did not mention a single name. And the same thing in the mining concessions, in the terrible corruption in Petroecuador, the very serious accusations against the commanders in charge of intelligence in the Armed Forces or in all the accusations by the regime
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