RUMBO PROPIO PARA EL ZULIA -- (OIL)

¿Qué es Rumbo Propio?

Un movimiento político zuliano de afirmación regionalista, cuyo objetivo es el desarrollo integral del Zulia mediante el capitalismo liberal -único sistema idóneo a ese fin- a partir de la aprobación plebiscitaria de un Estatuto Autonómico en la región.

“Autonomía” (normas propias) es más que autogobierno (gobierno propio) pero menos que independencia política o secesión. Tampoco equivale a autosuficiencia económica (aislamiento del mundo): todo lo contrario. Rumbo Propio quiere el máximo de bienestar para los zulianos, poniendo al Zulia en el Primer Mundo, plenamente integrado en la economía global de hoy. Para ello no se requieren tratados engañosos tipo ALCA o Mercosur, sino nada más decretar los principios históricos de libre comercio y libre cambio, que en el pasado llevaron a las naciones hoy desarrolladas a ser ricas.

A paragraph is enough: we must begin again, retaking the roots, and as it was with the lease holdmovement in medieval Spain, in the liberties and guaranteed regional autonomies with local Statutes, like in Santa Cruz, Bolivia; Loreto and Puno, Peru; Guayas, Ecuador; Zulia, Venezuela; and Limon, Costa Rica. And others regions to come. To continue with the studies - now more than ever {12} - and intellectual production, but no longer limited on Economy field.

LOCATION OF OTHER AUTONOMOUS OR SECESSIONIST MOVEMENTS IN OIL PRODUCING REGIONS

Santa Cruz, Bolivia; and Tarja, Bolivia





Loreto Peru, and Puno, Peru




Guayas, Ecuador;




Diego Delgado Jara article here

Pandilla depredadora asola el Ecuador

Partidos políticos y dirigentes de orientación ideológica profascista del Ecuador, de pública adhesión a la política pronorteamericana, han levantado con mayor fuerza que nunca su propuesta de impulsar, en forma urgente y desesperada ( "con ley o sin ley") , las autonomías políticas en Ecuador.

The Northern Peruvian Amazon - Loreto (Perú)

Block 64 -- The Northern Peruvian Amazon

In Peru, declining national oil output has given rise to a wave of new Amazon energy concessions in remote indigenous lands. Located in the Loreto region of the northern Peruvian Amazon, Block 64 encompasses 800,000 hectares of highly biodiverse rainforests and wetlands, home to the Achuar people. The area is listed under the Ramsar Convention as one of the world's most important wetlands.

Oxy Burlington Resources and Occidental Petroleum acquired the rights to the area in 1999 from ARCO. For seven years, the Achuar's unwavering resistance kept ARCO out of the area despite company intimidation of local community leaders. More recently, Occidental Petroleum and Burlington have pressured four indigenous communities on the edges of the Block to agree to oil operations in return for small gifts. The remaining 7,000 affected Achuar people continue to voice their united opposition to any drilling on their lands and have now formed a bi-national Achuar organization to coordinate their defense with the Achuar in Ecuador. Lucas Irare, the President of the Achuar federation of Peru explains, "the Achuar people of Peru will not give even one millimeter of territory for oil activities."

+Oil exploitation in the Amazon basin of Ecuador: a public health emergency

he Amazon basin of Ecuador, known as el Oriente (the provinces of Sucumbios, Orellana, Napo, Pastaza, Morona Santiago, and Zamora-Chinchipe), consists of more than 100 000 km2 of tropical rain forest lying at the headwaters of the Amazon river network. The region contains one of the most diverse collections of plant and animal life in the world

Current oil production activities in the Oriente region span nearly one million hectares, with over 300 producing wells and 29 production camps. The country has 4.6 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, with crude production of around 390 000 barrels per day. Of this production, Petroecuador, the Government-owned company, accounts for about 55% of Ecuador's total output,

Paraguay: A Laboratory for Latin America’s New Militarism

...and other military activity in this heart (Paraguay) of the continent represent a new style of militarism in Latin America.

Paraguay now illustrates three new characteristics of Latin America’s right-wing militarism:

• joint exercises with US military in counterinsurgency training and monitoring of social organizations,

• the use of private mercenaries for security and

• the criminalization of social protest through "anti-terrorism" tactics and legislation.

In July of 2005 hundreds of US soldiers arrived in the country and Washington's funding for counterterrorism efforts in Paraguay doubled. The US troops conducted various operations and joint training exercises with Paraguayan forces, including the Medical Readiness Training Exercises (MEDRETEs).

Orlando Castillo, a military policy expert at the human rights rights organization Servicio, Paz y Justicia in Asunción, Paraguay, says the MEDRETEs were "observation operatives" aimed at developing a "a type of map that identifies not just the natural resources in the area, but also the social organizations and leaders of different communities."

"The kind of training that used to just happen at the School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia is now decentralized," he explained. "The US military is now establishing new mechanisms of cooperation and training with armed forces."

this new militarism is aimed at considering internal populations as a potential enemies and preventing the coming to power of insurgent, leftist groups
A group of representatives ... traveled to Paraguay in July, 2006 as part of the Campaign for the Demilitarization of the Americas (CADA) to observe and report on the repression going on in the country linked to the presence of US troops

THE NEW US MILITARY BASE IN AT MARISCAL ESTIGARRIBIA, PARAGUAY. THE GAS FIELDS AND THE SECCESIONISTS ARE IN TARIJA, BOLIVIA.

In December 2006, the Paraguayan Senate and executive branch, responding to pressure from neighboring countries, voted to end the troops’ immunity. Paraguay would have been excluded from the lucrative regional trade bloc of Mercosur if it continued to grant immunity to the US troops.

Castillo sees private mercenaries, or paramilitaries, as another key piece of the new militarism puzzle. In Paraguay, the strongest paramilitary group is the Citizens Guard. "These paramilitary groups are made of people from the community. ... all very similar to the paramilitary activities in Colombia." ... Many of the paramilitaries are connected to large agribusinesses and landowners ... these paramilitary groups have nearly 22,000 members, while the Paraguayan police force is only 9,000 strong and the military has 13,000 members.

Anti-terrorism rhetoric and legislature is being mixed into this deadly cocktail. The Paraguayan Senate is scheduled to pass an anti-terrorism law which will criminalize social protest and establish penalties of up to 40 years in prison for people that participate in such activities. A large march against the passage of the law took place in the country’s capital on July 26th.

BOLIVIA HAS NATIONALIZED ITS GAS. OLIGARCHS IN THE PETROLEUM PROVINCES BORDERING PARAGUAY ARE TRYING TO SECEDE