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MONTECRISTI, Manabí. MONTECRISTI, Manabi. El presidente de la Asamblea, Alberto Acosta, en el debate del mandato minero. The chairman of the Assembly, Alberto Acosta, in the discussion of the mandate miner. |
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Mayo 11, 2008 May 11, 2008
Its transit through social activism, mainly near indigenous groups, linked to the current president of the Constituent Assembly, Alberto Acosta (PAIS), with the environmental movement.
But he himself has admitted that it was love what it encouraged further closeness that: her partner Ana Maria Varea biologist is committed to that cause 30 years ago.
Hence it has expressed concern about environmental issues in at least three times in the Assembly debate: the recognition of nature as a subject of rights; miner's mandate and the inclusion of prior consent or prior consultation with the communities for the exploitation of resources.
The defense of these positions has caused friction with the agent Rafael Correa and some of its coidearios have commented privately that he "is interested more in the trees and the old dog Puppy aniñada" by humans.
In the debate over the ownership of rights, the assembly minority noted that, legally, nature could only be subject to obligations by the State.
The discussion of mining mandate was extended for several weeks because the bloc of countries could not agree on its content. While Acosta and a group of assembly, as Monica Chuji and its allies of Pachakutik, raised the total reversal of the mining concessions, another 'camp' led by himself Correa called for responsible mining.
That was the second of three occasions on which it has done: the first was to deny it has managed to Montecristi works and, most recently, to support the mandate of the Solidarity Fund.
But in the discussion on consultation and consent, Correa leads because the chairman of the Assembly yesterday presented the proposal that comes close to theirs.
It was one of those meetings that Correa Acosta has questioned that as an adviser to expect Martinez, former director of the NGO Accion Ecologica, who said that "no response to the Government's policy line."
In most of these fronts, Acosta has questioned some decisions in tough terms of the Minister of Environment, Marcela Aguiñaga, as rescind the reserve forests of South and deliver patents for tourism activities in the Galapagos.
Pablo Dávalos, a former adviser to the Assemblyman Monica Chuji, says that Acosta has entered into contradiction with the regime because of the changed political discourse of Correa.
"The President also had some concerns for academic ecology, but he actually expresses what in economics is called 'development', ie intensive exploitation of resources for social policies. The 'development' always generates conflicts with environmental and indigenous communities, "said Davalos, who adds that the agent needed liquidity tax" to resolve a political intervention and investment thus enabling it to take public legitimacy. "
Xavier Bustamante, director de Fundación Natura, califica de “positivo” el debate ambiental que lleva adelante la Constituyente. Xavier Bustamante, director of Nature Foundation, described as "positive" discussion on the environmental carrying Constituent. “ "In 1998 the Assembly of progress was made, but I do not remember that the debate has been so intense; is the first time that we talk about issues that are as important as economic development."
Alberto Acosta Alberto Acosta
Presidente de la Asamblea Assembly President
“ "Prior consultations have been a hoax. Here it is trampling human rights. "
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