John receives more money for domestic partnership deductions for producers of soybean-an oily almost unknown in the province, that the income of mining companies.
saw not the Peter Munk or Aaron Regent searching their names on the rolls on Sunday May 8, 2011 in the rugged San Juan schools. They are the corporate and executive directors, respectively, of the Barrick Gold Corporation, the firm which operates through subsidiaries Veladero mine in the province of Argentina as it does in 25 other enterprises in a dozen countries. That day, through a plebiscite, the San Juan was awarded to the governor, José Luis Gioja, the opportunity to run for reelection for a third consecutive term.
But the votes of Mr. Munk and Regent are worth more than the San Juan all together, according to the provincial accounts and the numbers surrounding this story. San Juan grew 12% in the first quarter of 2011 due to mining activity. Announced by the Minister of Industry of the Nation, Debora Giorgi, two days before the plebiscite. Visit was the maximum allowed kirchnerismo to a governor who is on a third consecutive term frowned. Last year growth was 16.6%, well above the national average. Gioia will probably
recontrareelecto when citizens of San Juan again put the vote on 14 August in the primaries designed by the national government and October 23, in general define the President and some governors. Gioia said that nothing is worth more than that: the vote of the people. And to that end we have two more. That answer, in footballing terms, the opposition questioning the legality of the consultation, rather dubious, indeed. But "there must be a" one could say, paraphrasing the explanations were between neighbors when people disappeared after being kidnapped by the dictatorship.
"Gioja do this because it is the only one who can ensure business continuity of Barrick," said an opposition politician who was the No. Something similar was heard to say to the governor's brother, Senator Caesar Gioia, who became head of the claims of opponents. He, too Kirchner wanted to be the party candidate for governor, but his younger brother's plans changed when he decided to run for a third term.
Despite having taken the lead in the "no" to the re-election of his brother, Senator Gioja defends the existence of mining companies in the province of San Juan much as does the governor himself. Of course, Caesar wants the multinationals to pay more royalties for the gold to Switzerland carried. And his brother, the governor, working on an agreement para ello con la Nación. A través de la reglamentación a la ley de Glaciares quiere que las mineras como Barrick tributen el 3% no de los minerales que declaren haber extraído –como es ahora- sino de su facturación final, lo que no incluye los costos de producción de la firma. En caso de incumplimiento, multa. Y hasta la posibilidad del fin de la concesión.
“Gioja es un corrupto y un coimero”, acusó casi seis años atrás y reafirma aún hoy el ex gobernador Alfredo Avelín, de Cruzada Renovadora, un partido al que se vinculó con la dictadura y que hoy apoya los reclamos contra las mineras que reivindica desde Buenos Aires el cineasta y diputado Fernando “Pino” Solanas, leader of the South Project and direct rival Mauricio Macri in the next election as head of Government of Buenos Aires. At 84 years, the doctor treats patients Avelin still poor in the capital of San Juan and lives of his retirement as a doctor, not as former senator and governor. It was the only governor who was opposed to endorse the adjustments required by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) during the crisis of the new millennium. Avelin attributes his dismissal in 2002, his opposition to the accession of the province's mining law enacted in the national government of Carlos Menem. Gioia was then a growing local opposition, to national prominence in Congress as chairman of Block his party, the Peronist. The following year would be elected governor a few months and would approve the environmental impact report submitted Veladero mine by Barrick. The firm cleans metals and cyanide open-pit operation in the Cordillera de los Andes. Votes
and friends
Ni Munk and Regent voted last Sunday (May 8, 2011), when most of San Juan who went to the polls put the "yes" to the possible reelection of Gioja, the first and rigged constitutional amendment is the province in a quarter century, convened in trouble for that sole purpose and when Gioja was certain it could not be a candidate for vice president Nation. Voted 61% of the standard, 66% of the voters in favor of Gioja. But that number means 41% of the total electorate yes on the re-re, insufficient for the opposition if a referendum question. Already legal challenges underway, with hopes of reaching the Supreme Court's Office. Gioja
claims to have been a friend of Nestor Kirchner. There are those who question the origin of friendship to reveal the fears of the late former president to the governor in 2001, when the Santa Cruz began his road to Government House and the Senate was then vice president for a few days in the 2001 crisis -2002. But Kirchner died in October 2010, when it was speculated whether it would be the next presidential candidate of his heterogeneous political space, and who was in charge was his widow, President Cristina Fernandez, in different and distant relationship with the San Juan. No taps or jokes that can be done with it as he did with Kirchner. Gioja dreamed of being the running mate of a new Kirchner's presidential nomination.
Carajos and royalties
"I have a fuck to do with Covelia" shouted a couple of months ago the head of the union bosses, the trucker Hugo Moyano. It was when reports were requested from Switzerland to Argentina for criminal cases against him following an investigation into alleged money laundering of the garbage collection company to which links attribute and pressures to obtain bids in the municipalities of Buenos Aires. "I have a fuck to do with Barrick," you could say well Gioja. Of course ultimately the San Juan would add the word "asshole", so typical of him even more Chilean Cuyo.
senator's brother handle the hypothesis that the governor was extorted, to put it in some way, by the mining company itself to go for the re-re, as close to the legislator said. "Whenever there is a death in the closet" would Gioia said the senator who asked about the re-re of his family. What will his brother dead? The fight between the brothers liked a lot the last part of the campaign but it was the core of the plebiscite. Barrick
took last year in Argentina more than 4 billion pesos, more than the Budget forecast for this year by the province of San Juan, about 3,800 million. What was left to the province in royalties were about 180 million pesos. There is an equation that does not close: San Juan receives more money for domestic partnership deductions for producers of soybean-an oily almost unknown in the province, that the corporate income mining.
"Anything payments increase bother us, because we invest and plan with a set cost, and this change of investment rules in the middle is a violation of the law," complained the head of the Chamber which groups mining companies in San Juan, Jaime Bergé, Gioja just made public their intentions to change the royalty scheme through the law of glaciers, the day after his electoral victory.
environmental sources of the assembly created in the capital of San Juan at the risk of the proliferation of open-pit mining industry argued that there are strong suspicions that Barrick Chile takes minerals not included in their affidavits to the Argentine treasury. There are even theories of links with the mining company operating in the Cerro Vanguardia mine in Santa Cruz. Gold bullion trucks would travel south from San Juan to Santa Cruz, but Chilean lands, and from there would go up from the Atlantic to the Pacific sea and ports of the neighboring country.
"San Juan is a poor province," said the governor Gioja when he delivered the first ingot produced by Barrick Veladero. It was the October 11, 2005, when an ounce of gold worth about $ 675, and then a trading well above $ 400 that was around when the mining project began to be realized. Today an ounce exceeded $ 1,500. "If the mineral grew, the company invested more win. That is logical, the other party, who makes the investment estimated to increase mineral. And I wonder, if an ounce lower, then, do we go down the royalties? "Raised by these days, the president of the San Juan Chamber of mining companies.
postplebiscito In your ads, Gioia spoke of the creation of a provincial mining company to support small businesses disposed of by the big operators of the system and is the Chilean example. He says the idea has nothing to do with anything Fomicruz, the company created by his late friend Kirchner in his time as governor of the province of Santa Cruz and to be associated with all mining companies operating there such as that operated Cerro Vanguardia.
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