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- Subject: ENVIRONMENT: PLANS TO DUMP WASTE IN
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- Date: 11 Sep 92 12:36:00 GMT
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- Subject: ENVIRONMENT: PLANS TO DUMP WASTE IN
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- Reference: Latin America
- Title: ENVIRONMENT: PLANS TO DUMP WASTE IN THIRD WORLD LINKED TO RACISM
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- la paz, aug 13 (ips) -- plans by industrialized countries to turn
- developing nations into dumping grounds for their radioactive
- waste are related to their conception of non-white peoples,
- according to bolivian bishop rolando villena.
-
- villena, who is the secretary of the latin american council of
- churches (clai) for the andean region, linked such plans to an
- inhuman philosophy and policy which ''consider the men and women
- of our peoples inferior beings, solely because their skins are
- not white.''
-
- speaking thursday at a latin american meeting on ''500 years
- of martyrdom and hope'' held here by the clai, he charged that
- proposals presented at the world bank and other international
- bodies would convert bolivia and other third world countries into
- atomic refuse dumps.
-
- villena's denunciation echoed warnings that other parts of
- latin america, in particular central america, are in danger of
- become dumping grounds for harmful waste.
-
- edwin garzona of the international environmental group
- greenpeace, said this week in guatemala that ''central america
- had become a favourite destination for toxic wastes.''
-
- garzona said greenpeace had discovered eight separate
- proposals to import toxic wastes into the region in 1987, while
- this year nine similar proposals had been recorded.
-
- fears that the sub-region could become a dumping ground have
- led the central american environment commission (ccad) to urge
- central american governments to hasten the approval of an
- agreement banning all toxic waste imports into the region.
-
- villena stressed that the reported plans by industrialized
- countries to dump waste in latin america are related to their
- view of developing nations and their peoples.
-
- ''here the damage would be less, since it would not affect
- professionals, technicians and scientists, but only poor peasants
- and workers and industrial complexes and big cities would not be
- destroyed,'' he said ironically.
-
- ''i consider it humiliating that the industrialized nations
- ''want to treat us like their colonies and possessions, repeating
- the 500 years of conquest and oppression against our peoples,''
- he said.
-
- within this framework, he referred to the presence of u.s.
- military forces in bolivia. (more)
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- no foreign military force should harm national dignity and
- sovereignty, using bolivia as if it were its territory for
- unavowable purposes, as u.s. troops are doing in eastern bolivia,
- he said.
-
- ''we are therefore demanding solidarity from the churches of
- the first world, so that these unjust and inhumane imperialist
- projects ... which run counter to the principles of god, do not
- prosper,'' he said. (end/ips/trd/so/rg-oh/kb/92)
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