The scourge of a new contaminating chemical industry, called open cast mining, which employs a method of liquidation, in which fresh water is used as a prime material mixed with various chemical such as cyanide and sulfuric acid to extract the materials exploited from the land.

These activities play a huge part in maintaining the economic situation of the richer countries of the world. The fact is that in their countries there are many controls which increase the costs of these activities greatly. Also there is a recession of these activities, similar to the situation with hydrocarbons, because at present the deposits in these countries do not accumulate large profits.

In what we call the new world order, the planning of great powers counts on the dispossession of large regions around the world. Primarily in South East Asia, Latin America and Africa, and several areas of eastern Europe, as well as the south such as Portugal, and in certain cases in Spain. With regards to South America, in particular, this new order develops its strategy by mean of an initiative; the Initiative for the integration of the infrastructure of South America, also called, IIRSA. Through this initiative, whose name provides no hint of its macabre character, by means of industrialist and political collusion, with the aid of the weak laws present in Third World countries, the governments of rich countries are able to take possession of land and wealth in South America. The strategy manifests in order to create South American indebtedness. Mining companies for example, profit greatly from the infrastructure here in South America, which allows them to carry out their operations with a larger profit margins. In this way, by means of bribe and provocation, they make sure that the infrastructure in place in these countries cannot survive without their financial aid, which is to say that they integrate themselves into the community. The maneuver is subtle but open, so as not to raise suspicions immediately. At first they try to create the impression that the country is growing in the conscience of the population, that the economy is improving, and that the returns will outweigh the costs.

Thus, they start to build hydroelectricity plants, dams, miles upon miles of railroad, ports, airports, pipelines, gas lines, aqueducts, motorways and repair roads. They also fortify bridges, and build strategic constructions. There is investment in communications as well. The reasons for all this development have malintentions; all of this is being constructed so that multinationals can count on having all the necessary comforts that they are accustomed to, and in this way their investments are made solely to aid their exploitation. The mine Bajo de la Alumbrera, in Catamarca, consumes more than 80 % of the energy that el Chocón produces. Other mines of similar characteristics would need analogous volumes of energy to sustain their levels of operability. The information differs according to the source, but according to one evaluation, it is considered possible that 300 open pit mines could be opened in the next five years. In this manner it is easy to understand why organisations infiltrate the infrastructure of South America.

The Argentinean community would not only have to give up its rivers, streams, lakes and dams to the inevitable contamination, which would lead to undrinkable water, but also construct the buildings etc to be used by the multinationals. In Cruz del Eje, North Cordoba, one of the most emblematic cases of this type unfolds. There they are trying to construct an hydroelectric dam in the dike which delivers water to the city. Clearly, as with all things, the tactic is to withhold information. Confusion. Misinformation. Accuse those who raise questions as enemies of progress and economic growth. In Cruz del Eje the dike and population are doubly contaminated; by the hydroelectric dam itself, as well as by the mining pits which would contaminate the water with heavy metals and chemicals, as well as consuming all the electrical power that the dam would produce. The Atlantic coast would also be bordered by strategically placed ports and fishing grounds. The miners who would take place in the mountains, leaching cyanide and sulfuric acid into the glaciers and waters there, would need somewhere to load their plunderous cargo. They say what they need and where, and then recompense greatly so that politicians turn a blind eye to the plundering of goods to other countries which take profits which rightly belong to that country.

There are many examples of this nature. The land that has been given to us for the present does not make it possible. Anyway, we believe that we have looked to transmit has been reflected with certain guarantees. We must not allow mining companies to establish themselves, just as we must not buy into the promises and gifts that precede them. Worldwide, it has only been possible to establish the level of poverty during the course of events, just as this can only be realised after all resources have been exhausted. We did not need to become a part of this through the previous investments, putting ourselves in a position of debt through their capricious infrastructures, as well as having to deal with the trail of destruction they leave behind.

Life and water. Water and life, they are the oldest and most harmonious of relationships. Whether the relationship between these two continues, the whole of humanity depends.

Dr. Manuel Benitez, president of Cámara Argentina de Empresarios Mineros, told us, on one occasion, that man had been born a miner. He said that to take a rock and use it as a tool was given to us at the start of time. Of this we had no doubt, but we are sure that the primitive man's intentions did not lay in ambition. He did not speculate with bags of gold in New York or London, nor did he think about profit and gain. The stone that was attached to handle was a tool to protect the group. It was a defensive weapon of rustic means. Integral to daily life without necessarily attempting harm or injure anybody. A primitive man who did not contaminate the water with sulfuric acid or cyanide. A primitive man with whom they compete today, although through the refined assassins of the mining companies.