Miravalle Yesterday I went to two producers in Spain who were hunting for stories to write and make a film about Nicaragua. In March, on the road, we were surprised to see a humble group of women with placards denouncing the contamination of their water well.
an elderly woman in years and, together with their families led the protest. Alvarado called Jacinta and Jacinta is known as the Palaces. With simple words told us her story: "I have a house that I live for forty years in the upper south west ridge of Barlovento. This is the house where I raised my children and my grandchildren. Subsisted on a small family bakery bread which became home for almost thirty years at San Juan del Sur. "I was happy in my house. I do not know how many years ago appeared in San Juan del Sur a stranger who came by bike, then had a tour boat for tourists, then began with a hotel project that San Juan is known as the Pelican Eyes, which grew to adjoining with my property. I have a well, which drew the water for our consumption and the bakery.
be three years now, we started to see my grandchildren get sick of the skin, had diarrhea and diseases stomach, so we were adults. We note that the well dried up during the summer and we had to pull water from a depth of seven meters, the water level is maintained almost to the curb. Normally the water is 14 meters deep, but now excavating and we found two feet. Alarmed take samples of water, chlorine and with great surprise as we had a white coating. My daughter took the sample to the health center and confirmed our suspicions: Our water was contaminated by feces. We turned to the Environmental Unit of the mayor who gave us long and we decided to Rivas to the Ministry of Health, which immediately closed our bakery since water with which we worked was contaminated. Then came the Attorney's atmosphere Rivas and ruled that what was polluting was the infiltration of sewage from septic tanks from the hotel.
The hotel was fine. The representative of the Pelican, this gringo who came by bike, we said we were going to give good water - the same as that extracted from the basins of the rivers of San Juan del Sur to the hotel - but a certain amount. Many times we saw goodbye to employees who gave us an extra bucket of water. We had to go out and rent a house because the stench emanating from the contaminated water is terrible, no water. We view with great concern The representatives of the Office of Rivas environment meet the people of Pelican without calling us to participate in them.
The Pelican through its foundation is the month for all elders of San Juan del Sur to your location to have lunch and have fun and that's fine, Becan boys to study and good, as do social work the state as serious competition is to provide education and care to the people of this community. What is wrong is to use their shares to buy good will, not right to use the argument does not employ many people to silence voices.
Many accuse us what we want is money, and I tell them that if we wanted money we had accepted the million dollars that we offered to withdraw the indictment against those who believe he murdered my granddaughter Doris Lee. How wrong! To us, what we are children are sick with chronic conditions that dragged while they are living. We are the ones we have detected the problem and God knows how many more wells are being polluted and many people more are being polluted without realizing it. Saanen
We want our well, our compensation from the damages caused by the closure of the family business, take care of medical expenses for life will my grandchildren and my family in general. We ask the government of Nicaragua to lay hands stronger institutions to ensure that projects do not affect the health and welfare of its citizens. And above all we ask that investment comes to Nicaragua, but socially and environmentally responsible investment.
concluded
women continued their protest, while correspondents saw that El Nuevo Diario and La Prensa from Rivas rushed to interview them. We continue to Miravalle. I, as a promoter of tourism was left with a feeling of powerlessness to see how irresponsible some groping an industry we bet a lot with our best feelings. Ninoska
PAZ GARCIA
San Juan del Sur, 30 August
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