Red Ambiental Loretana

The first fruit of the three-day workshop organized by the RAL, Ecological and Traffic Forum was the unanimous decision of the participants to create the Loretana MOVEMENT: FORESTS FOREVER. The workshop was aimed at "strengthening local capacity to improve forest governance and transparency." People and professionals attended directly linked with the forest: indigenous, coastal ecological police, researchers, university students in careers related to forest and regional government representatives. Displaying the size of the challenge to ensure we have the forests forever, recognized the importance of continuing to work together in turn three areas: communication of the subject forest and its survival and the strategies for control and transparency in the management and the issue of managing information about what happens in forests. Loretana Environmental Network is responsible for the Technical Secretariat and volunteers offered to attend an upcoming planning meeting on Friday 4 December at 4.00pm

In a letter to the President of the Republic, Alan García Pérez, Peru European Platform (PEP) expresses its deep concern at the human rights situation in the country. Particularly by the suspension of the implementation of the recommendations of the Commission of Truth and Reconciliation and the increasing vulnerability of social and popular leaders and defenders of fundamental rights of individuals.

On 15 March 2009 it held a referendum in the province of Paita, where 87.01% of respondents opposed the grant of the port. While people want the modernization of the port, the main criticism is based on the pattern and delivery of a strategic port of Peru at the hands of foreign businessmen.
However, on 31 March 2009, gave good pro PROINVERSIÓN port terminals Euroandinos Piuran the Consortium (TPE), the only one of three bidders submitted their technical and financial offer.

Civil society organizations have expressed their concerns regarding this process and its potential impacts:

•It is not just a port: The rehabilitation and modernization of Paita Port is one of the projects that are attached to an economic corridor Corridor North-cvan Amazon, 960.40 km long road that will connect with Yurimaguas Paita across Costa, Sierra and Peruvian jungle. They are part of the Initiative for South American Regional Infrastructure Integration (IIRSA), a set of more than 500 projects in transport, telecommunications and energy that run on the 12 South American countries.

•Evidence of corruption: The offer was made on March 31 in the morning and 4 in the afternoon was announcing the result. By special rules took away powers to the Comptroller to intervene in the process. The bases were modified with more than 40 circular to substantially reduce the requirements concerning the capacity and ability of the bidders. These changes have played a nefarious role in the process, encouraging even the withdrawal of bidders.

•Sovereignty and national security: It is delivering a strategic port to a consortium where domestic firms are not. The winning consortium is formed by three companies, one of which is a branch of the company TERT (Terminais Portugal) associated with belonging to the Spanish group Dragados Chilean Von Appen which, in turn, manages the company presented Cosmos as one of domestic enterprises in this concession. Traslei in Peru, another Peruvian company is the sole shareholder, the largest construction group in Portugal, Mota-Engil Group. Additionally, improperly overturned the inviolability, inalienability and applicability of the reserved area of Paita, considered strategic for purposes of national security and defense, through Supreme Decree 021-2009-MTC. This means that TPE may mortgage the port infrastructure to obtain credit, and if you do not cancel these debts, creditors will become masters of our terminal and state may not intervene.

•No risk: According to the Contract during the first two years (pre-operational stage), the dealer will have no spending commitment, but you will receive absolutely free the more than S /. 11 million annual revenues from this port terminal, of which only returned to the State 2%. However in the event of loss, the State completed the profits of the concessionaire with public budgetary an amount that totals $ 353, 710.000.

•Disproportionate gain: This is a modality of Public-Private Partnership, which is involved in the provision of public services based on existing state-owned infrastructure. Being the State basically initial investment, the concessionaire will retain 98% profit and the state will receive only 2% of them, despite being the largest investment that is setting.

•Disclaimer: PROINVERSIÓN has full responsibility for having granted this concession "particular", because as explained, the company was the only bid that was submitted and the bases were changed according to supply and settled How can a company with serious limitations (in terms of ability, experience and solvency) has obtained the Good Pro strategic port?

Therefore, the undersigned organizations demand that:

• Annul the concession contract and questions the reasons expressed above.
• Investigate the process of granting and the hasty signing of the contract with the Consortium Euroandinos Port Terminals (TPE), forming a Commission of Inquiry into the Congress.
• Establish transparent mechanisms that involve the following concessions to projects in the Northern Amazon road corridor and the IIRSA nationally as well as evaluating, modifying and / or repeal those rules that violate the public interest in the processes of compromise.