SOS Peru

It doesn’t surprise me that a new millionaire personality arrived to the Peruvian scene buying a Car Museum, TV Channels and everything else that can help to impress, and communicate with the mass population, it’s logical and a normal economic and political strategy to be influential in the reality of a country.

But that he’s talking about the “New Artisanal Mining” where the people who are the owners of the business are with naked feet in the river banks and research the gold, helped by the use of highly poisonous Mercury, that will not just kill in a short period the new business owners, but that destroys the nature, a practice that is growing exponentially in Peru, being illegal, but having payed people in the parliament and in the Justice system to assist this criminal human and natural slaughter; an illegal business of more than 10 Billion USD, that makes Peru the largest exporter of South America with a market quote of almost the 50%. 

That this new billionaire wants to exchange and status of the gold river mining operators from slaves to business owners, doesn’t change the fact that this activity gives richness to only a few people who create criminal corporations to defend themselves and destroying for thousands of years the nature and filling of illness and death the local historical abused populations. It’s clear that the large, legal, mining groups that exploit especially copper, need to be redirected, including with the partial reduction of taxes to implement local industries that can give an added value to the essential mineral extraction, providing better quality jobs to the local inhabitants and more regional opportunities for everyone.

As for the GNV gas, that Peru has massive natural resources, there needs to be a quote of production directly for people of poor incomes and offered at the cost of the production, giving an economic and social relief to who more needs, and specially if it is adapted to produce heating and electricity in towns and areas without electricity. Almost 2 million Peruvian citizens don’t have access to electricity in their homes.

We can’t go back to the fraud times of the Gold Fever in the year 2025, it will be retrograde and tragic for the country.