Levantan comuneros de Mezcala el bloqueo a la minera Equinox Gold tras llegar a acuerdos

Zacarías Cervantes

Chilpancingo

Los comuneros de Mezcala, municipio de Eduardo Neri (Zumpango) levantaron late yesterday the blockade they had at the entrance 1 of the mine Equinox Gold, luego de que the minera canadiense aceptó fulfill the agreement they signed with the agrarian nucleus.
Los comuneros habian bloqueado la entrada 1 de la minera since last Monday to require the minera to comply with the agreement and respect the social clauses.
Due to the breach of the Canadian mine, the communeros blocked the entrance to the mine to pressurize the dialogue that was suspended by the intransigence of the local manager of the company, Carlos García, according to the denunció on Thursday of the president of the Comisariado de Benes Comunales, Rubén Darío López.
Luego de cuatro días de bloqueo, the managers of the mine, with the intervention of the government of the state, agreed to meet with the representatives of the agricultural nucleus yesterday at 12 of the day to negotiate a solution to the conflict.
In the afternoon, the director of State Government, Francisco Rodríguez Cisneros, who acted as a mediator between the Canadian company and the board of directors of the agrarian nucleus, informed that the commoners decided to lift the blockade they had at the entrance to the mine due to representatives of the company accepted compliance with all the clauses of the agreement.
The director of State Government, Rodríguez Cisneros, informed that the Canadian mine had compromised and had to respect all the clauses of the agreement that had been established with the agricultural nucleus.
Agregó que la empresa canadianese se comprometió a partir de ayer a tener más cercanía con el núcleo agrario, en tanto que los comuneros se compromtieron a levantar el bloqueo la misma late de ayer.
Los comuneros came denunciando que la minera canadiense se negaba cumplir las claususes del convenio sobre las que tienen que ver con las prestaciones sociales, como los apoyos a los pescadores por la contamination del agua que provoca, la reforestación de las areas devastadas, la reparación de los caminos saca cosechas, así como privilegiar la contratación de los empresarios locales.
Yesterday, the representatives of the communeros of Mezcala arrived at 12 of the day at the Precinct of the Offices of the Executive Power of the State of Guerrero (before the Palacio de Gobierno) to meet with the representatives of the mine and state government officials headed by him Director of Government, Francisco Rodríguez Cisneros.