Final declaration of III the Mesoamericano Forum
Anti Dams 2004
Municipality of Carolina, Department of San Miguel,
El Salvador C. A. 536 people of the mesoamericana area, and
other international communities, affected and in risk of displacement
by the construction of dams and projects of privatization of water
down promoted by the transnational governments, companies and
financial institutions, we have met in III the Mesoamericano Forum
Against Dams to interchange our fights, problems and to construct the
strategies to defend our life. During 3 days, women and men of:
Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador,
Belize and Mexico we exposed the reasons for which ours paises, the
indigenous towns, farmers and civilians we are alarmed by the
uncontrolled growth of dams that turn to us victimas of the famous
neoliberal development.
Considering that:
ô the hidroelectricos projects and the privatization of the
water, follow in increase, without paises is taken into account by the
governors from ours, the shout of aid that the affected towns direct
and indirectly have declared in the accomplishment of the previous
Mesoamericanos Forums and the innumerable regional actions that show
the opposition the neoliberal Politicall that attempt against the
nature, soberania of our towns and the existence of the same life.
ô the metodos and miserable strategies used to enganar, to
divide and to threaten the towns that resist to die, turn out to be
the same ones, which indicates that we have a common enemy that
development, false Politicall of use generation always tries to hide
under the dark mantle of the assumption, common well-being and clean
generation of energia like alternative to the environmental
contamination.
ô the lack of attention to our denunciations, expositions and
the titulos of ignorantes that attribute us by the single fact of not
being in agreement with the criminal ideas of the transnational empire
with the help of sells mother countries, are ending the patience of
our mesoamericano town, which insists on resisting to leave its sacred
earth, their sites, their rios and the irrational alternation of its
system of social life, cultural and natural.
ô Neither the generating companies of energia hidroelectrica nor
such governments are interested in spreading an educative bell to
diminish the electricity consumption; on the contrary, it is
stimulated to the population to the constant and disturbed consumption
of energia, like merchandise but that circulate in world-wide the
capitalist market.
Therefore:
Having resorted to ways legal and metodos pacificos to
defend our fundamental rights to the life, without to have obtained
positive answers to our requests,
We demanded:
v the total cancellation of all the hidroelectricos and
privatizadores projects of the water in all mesoamerica, and the
reasons exceed, but but the important one is to defend our earth, ours
rio and the right of the future generations to have accesses frees to
such. The water is a vital necessity and not merchandise.
v Demandamos that the governments develop programs and Politicall
that generate a development but human and real, that corresponds to
the necessities of the towns and not to the interests and
international Politicall. The hidroelectricos projects cause too
many negative impacts that do not justify their creation. The
new renewable sources exist, and we demanded their implementation
taking into account like priority opinion of the towns.
v the immediate liberation of the hondurenos comrades
Marcelino Miranda and Leonardo Miranda, both of the community of Green
Montana, Department of Graciasque has been condemned unjustly to
defend their rights and to demand the respect to its territories
situation by which already we lost in the 2003 to ours loved companero
Carlos Kings and did not tolerate from the government of Honduras a
cruel repression but, thus we condemned it and we made responsible in
its totality.
v Also we denounced energicamente the aggression that sufrio our
companero Marcelino Tiul Caal to the being hurt by firearm the 14 of
March during the protests made within the framework of celebration of
the Day the International Against Represas in the department of the
Peten in Guatemala.
We concluded
1. That before the global
envestida one that comes to us above with these projects, the answers
of the mesoamericanos towns sera of equal or greater magnitude in
resistance and fights.
2. We did not fight by money, ideals or
fleeting things, but by the life and the love to our rios. We
lived on the water, the Earth, the coexistence of our cultures.
Without our natural resources and our earth, we will become
history, podran to us in extinction.
3. We want development but without
imposition. A sustainable, constructive human development in
where it is respected the life and the care of mesoamerica and the
entire world. The development must be of the people for the people
and by the town.
4. We make a call to the governors of
ours paises, to the reflection and the true commitment that they have
before its towns, because the deterioration, operation and
implementation of these projects attempt against the life of they
themselves.
5. A shout of resistance and
organizacion to our indigenous towns, farmers and civilians against all
type of dams, privatizations, commercial treaties and what means the
kidnapping and evacuation of the unico that even belongs our loved
Mesoamerica to us. They cleared gold to us in the colonization,
but they did not clear the water, nor anything to us but.
6. the people does not have to pay the
debts of these project, to pay its own death.
7. The Mesoamericano Movement against
Represas, is committed to being a being decisive of fight against all
the attempts of robbery of the wealth, natural, cultural and
territorial from Mexico to Panama.
Given day 17 of July of 2004, Department of San Miguel, El
Salvador.
Rios for the life, Not but Dams!