The environmental crisis and the fate of Pachamama by Carlos Fermín

  • 2014

There is nothing more valuable than the great heart of the Pachamama. For centuries, native peoples knew that the love of a mother was as great as the natural resources they received in the hands of their parent. His favorite children were the best sentinels on planet Earth. They awakened the conservationist sense in Humanity, navigating the blue of the crystalline waters, sowing in the green of the grass and respecting the red of the fire.

Our ancestors really developed a sustainable and sustainable modus vivendi for all. The quality of life and the feeling of fullness were not achieved through bank accounts and the attachment to the material, but learning to walk barefoot through the organic of their lands, taking advantage of the gift of Nature to dress, feed and heal the soul of their disciples Never abusing the biological nobility of the Environment, and always exalting the legacy of struggle, loyalty and freedom of their peoples. For the natives, the conquest of a common goal was more important than filling the personal ego. However, the ecological spirit of their dogmas has been destroyed in a mansalva by the corporate mind of the new generations of Human Beings.

Currently, the global environmental crisis is reflected by the unification of 5 factors, which demonstrate all the barbarism against indigenous peoples. The first factor is based on the great indifference that moves the foundations of Modern Society. It is an unequal combat, full of injustice and bitter experiences, that never values ​​the sacrifice embodied by the original ethnic groups, to preserve the sacred resources of Nature. The World does not tire of ignoring them, mistreating them, and stripping them of the lands that by universal right belong to them. Although time is running out, the reflection never emerges in the discernment of men and women, who prefer to continue cramming the stores of the shopping centers, downloading the exclusive applications for the android and drinking gasoline bottled with ice.

While you waste your electrical energy, leaving the computer on all day, the natives take advantage of the sunlight to dance the Sebucán in the company of their loved ones. When you waste liters of drinking water, washing the padded seats of the car, they travel the vastness of the rivers through their beautiful canoes. Every time you squander thousands of sheets of paper, printing all the documents you find on the Web, they plant fruit trees and enjoy the wonderful sunset. We see that the indigenous peoples do not pay a fortune for the monthly electric bill, nor do they go crazy for the infernal city traffic, nor do they spend buying ink cartridges to recharge the printer. Paradoxically, there is much more joy in their lives than in ours.

The second factor is Transculturation, the omnipresent scourge of Latin American peoples, which turns the idiosyncrasy of a population into a Hollywood science fiction film. The story is starring hyper-consumerism, junk television and the anti-values ​​of the 21st century. Every day the lie earns more customers, fans and sponsors that continue to raise audience levels. Life stereotypes are created that are totally far from citizen ethics and morals, which negatively affect the mental health of the inhabitants. The voracious process of transculturation completely ignores the cultural heritage of indigenous peoples. Thus, the sense of belonging of the community is impaired, which does not have the will to instill environmental education, citizenship and tolerance.

In parallel, the people who inhabit the concrete jungle do not know that their indigenous brothers are the ones who favor the ideal environmental conditions for them to build and live normally in urban areas. The citizens of the metropolis, ignore the effort made by the native tribes from their rural areas, to preserve all the wealth that awaits those natural spaces, which are considered plant lungs and vents of great value to maintain the ecological balance of the cities that we house It is in these ordinary lands and forgotten by all, where the treasures of the Pachamama are safeguarded and the great biodiversity of the World is guarded.

The third factor can be seen in the Misinformation carried out by the private media of social diffusion, which operate as the classic lackeys of the Empire, always ready to misrepresent the news to fully comply with the ethnocidal plan of its owners. The disparity between the senders and receivers of the message is exaggerated. For every 3 community media that dare to investigate and denounce the irreparable environmental damage caused by transnationals that break indigenous lands, there are more than 300 capitalist media that repeat Uncle Sam's verb, and justify the destruction of habitats in exchange for Receive bloody money.

For the most part, the private media that are tuned in Latin America are betraying their cultural roots and deceiving the community. They are sold to the highest bidder. The journalistic machine creates false opinion matrices, so that readers, radio listeners and viewers continue with the blindfold, and never decide to defend the territoriality of indigenous peoples and estimate the resources of Nature. Recall that foreign information agencies tend to pejoratively refer to ethnicities. In addition, they manipulate people through an advertising bombing that enslaves them to remain imprisoned in the grip of frivolity.

On the contrary, the community media play a key role in the environmental protection of our territories, as they work as public servants who enter the reality of the peoples, in order to timely inform the ecological grievances that are perceived there. Alternative communication allows the interaction of the Man-Medium-Society trinomial, which helps to establish a framework of responsibility with the environment. The philanthropic support of people is vital to achieve constant monitoring in their communities. The fourth factor is evidenced by the passivity of governments in creating environmental policies that reach the rural and border areas where indigenous peoples are located. When the internal electoral processes of each country approach, airplanes are always able to land in those regions, promising that their lands will be respected and protected from landowners. But after the anxious Sunday of voting, they never return to pay their debts, with the archaic excuse that there are no access roads to visit those places. Thus, as the lack of legal mechanisms that truly protect their regions, allows the entry of mining, livestock and sports projects that destroy the territories.

The sovereignty of the indigenous peoples is privatized so as not to harm the urban development of the rest of the citizens, which pays taxes on time and deserves that the backhoe continue to strengthen the ecocide. There is also the abuse of power by public officials, such as parliamentarians, congressmen and notaries, who easily obtain the signature and seal that legalizes the dispossession of the lands belonging to the indigenous people. The saddest thing is that the few times that state agencies claim the environmental damage caused in aboriginal soils, it is only part of the great media show of the governments of turn, to pretend patriotic interest and catch more votes in the face of the next election.

The fifth factor is triggered by the tsunami of Industrialization, which for decades has poisoned Gaia's soul. The Indians never thought that their fertile crops would become transgenic corn crops, that the purified air from their lands would drown in digestion emissions. Carbon dioxide, and that its ancient trees would become large ATMs. Our indigenous communities are suffering an ordeal. They only ask that they be allowed to live in peace within their lands, together with their families, beliefs and customs. But in a robotic world because of the technological revolution, it is a utopian to believe that blind justice will guarantee that your fiefdoms will not be devastated by the world.

Recently, we have witnessed environmental violations that transgress the territoriality of the indigenous people. We see that in Latin America, the obtaining of wood, the extraction of minerals and sports recreation are responsible for violating the human rights of the original peoples. For example, the Mayangna ethnic group has been denouncing the atrocious deforestation observed in Bosaw s (Nicaragua), in which more than 2000 peasants allied with logging companies to seize the land, and strip to the natives of their ancestral forests. The invasion of settlers in Bosaw s was confirmed by Unesco in January 2014, which denounced the government's leniency in allowing the soil to continue to be degraded by the expansion of the agricultural frontier . If the negative trend continues in the greater Central America's biosphere reserve, it is feared that Bosawìs will disappear from Nicaraguan geography in just 10 years.

Continuing with the issue of deforestation in sacred regions, we learned that indigenous communities of Tava i in Paraguay have seen how their Caazapean mountains are disappearing, because traffickers mafias of wood they do not hesitate to imbue themselves within indigenous peoples, unlike judicial bodies that never proceed criminally against criminals. For that reason, the indigenous people of the Ayoreo people who inhabit the forest of the Paraguayan Chaco, resent the bestial clearing of their lands to increase livestock activities In Brazil, the Tupinamb ethnic group in the state of Bah a, alerted the massive felling of the mangrove that is located within its reserve, for the expansion of a hotel complex surrounding its territories. In Argentina, the indigenous community Solco Yampa denounced the illegal logging of cedars, cebiles and tipas on their lands, which caused a disruption to the ecosystems, which is paid with caustic floods in Few of rain.

Unfortunately, the exploitation of minerals is one of the bitter enemies of the indigenous culture. In Colombia, ferron quel production at the Cerro-Matoso mine has been polluting the environment of the department of Córdoba for years and harming the Zenén Indians, who see how extractive activities destroy the lands where they live. In Peru, more than 20 Kichwas communities located near the Napo River suffered the consequences of the 10, 000 barrels of oil spilled in 2013. Although the spill occurred in Ecuador, the Oil crossed the border with Peru, leaving a large toxic oil stain that affected the living conditions for indigenous peoples. Both countries have allowed hydrocarbons to put natural protected areas at risk, such as the Pacaya Samiria Reserve, the Yasuni National Park and the Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve.

At present, the expansion of the Camisea gas project was a death sentence for isolated and uncontacted indigenous peoples of Peru, who saw how their human rights were severed. In the jungle of the department of Cusco, an ecocide is being committed in which they pay just for sinners, due to the arbitrariness of the government to allow the exploitation of natural gas at the cost of the life of the original communities. The negative environmental impact that will destroy the Kugapakori, Nahua and Nanti Territorial Reserve is already known, thanks to industrial machines that predict a tragic genocide.

Despite this, we all met the Diaguita ethnic group in Valle del Huasco in Chile, who boldly knew how to denounce the environmental damage of the Pascua Lama project, given the threat of clouding the rivers and glaciers. In Mexico, the Huicholes indigenous people ask for respect for Wirikuta, which covers 140, 000 hectares of incomparable natural beauty, but because of the extractive megaprojects of minerals, a serious ecological deterioration has been caused in their spaces. The annihilation of that venerable place attacks the cultural heritage of the Aztec nation. Recall that in Honduras three indigenous people of the Tolupán ethnic group were killed in 2013, while they were in a street protest that sought to prevent the cutting down of trees on the Montaña de la Flor, where mining was intended.

As the environments of indigenous tribes are destroyed, the environmental impunity that makes Nature a source of entertainment grows. For example, the indigenous pemones that inhabit and preserve the majesty of the Gran Sabana in Venezuela, have had to deal with irrational automotive events that devour the soil, pollute the waters and undermine the ethnicity's way of life. In 2011, the “Fun Race 4 × 4” races, stepped on the accelerator of their fast machines to destroy ecosystems and win the ecocide race. The devastating image in the Venezuelan region is still visible and remembered by the pemones.

It should be noted that in recent years the Dakar Rally sports event has put the archaeological heritage of countries such as Argentina, Chile, Peru and Bolivia at risk. The economic and tourist interest that this spectacle represents for the pockets of the governments, demonstrates the wrong path that Humanity travels. In January 2014, representatives of the Kolla indigenous people were physically attacked, expressing their disagreement for not having been consulted about the passage of the Dakar in their territories.

Between blows and wounds of blood by police forces in the province of Jujuy, the lives of children, women, grandparents and even a priest who protested peacefully were disrespected. The rage of the Rally is over. The sports competition was a success and everyone is looking forward to the 2015 edition. But, we believe it is important to compare the experience of the Dakar with the 5 socio-environmental factors described throughout the article.

The Indifference of the people was demonstrated, who did not massively defend the Kolla people because of the mistreatment they received from local authorities. The lack of common sense is promoted by Transculturation, which makes you believe that the Dakar is the best, because it is an international event with luxury cars and motorcycles, which make it an incredible visual experience. Then the Disinformation appears, since the private media only want you to turn on the TV to watch the Rally 24 hours a day, and it is not convenient for you to inform yourself about the abuses to human dignity that fosters that sports show. Then comes the Passivity of governments, which for silver are capable of beating and killing their own ethnic race. And in the end, the entire circus is a consequence of Industrialization, which is the main engine for the Dakar to dazzle with marketing campaigns, mechanical assembly and metal awards.

We observe that in Latin America the human rights of indigenous peoples are being violated with greater crudeness, as there is no legal framework that really guarantees respect for the territories where they live. Their natural environments are invaded and looted daily by the judicial inaction of public bodies, which do not punish ecological crime in time. In fact, the environmental authorities of each Latin American country have been assuming a conspiratorial role in processing the license for transnationals to decide to invest in the geography of their nations, regardless of the life and destiny of the indigenous people living there.

When natural resources are exploited vilely, irreparable environmental damage is created that affects all citizens. We must rescue the spirit of struggle and conservationist education that the native peoples instill in us, to reorient our relationship with the Environment. It is time to look at each other in front of the mirror, and begin to show signs of empathy and solidarity with those who preach the love for Pachamama.

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