Penasquito.Dudes

September 21, 2010

Penasquito.Dudes

“Leaders from the ejido state that, according to Mexican Mining Law, local residents must receive a compensation of at least 100 million Mexican Pesos for every year the company works their land, this being retroactive to 2006. In addition, the National Water Commission should severely reprimand Goldcorp for the likely contamination of the underground aquifers,” states an article in El Financiero en Linea. According to Felipe Pinedo of the Zacatecas Popular Front for Struggle, “The mining law requires Goldcorp to pay the peasants from Zacatecas a percentage of the annual earnings, which roughly stand at 17.5 million pesos per day.” Lauro Herrera, resident of Cedros (pictured here, left), claims Goldcorp “took advantage of our ignorance and poverty by drafting a lease contract in which they agree to pay us only half a Mexican Peso per square metre over 30 years.”