dam-l Conflicts Continue in Conadi

[aleta@irn.org (Aleta Brown)]

 CHIP News for October 15, 1998
>SOURCE:  EL MERCURIO
>SOURCE:  LA TERCERA
>        --  CONFLICTS CONTINUE IN CONADI.  The eight indigenous
>board members of the National Indigenous Development Board
>(Conadi) refused Wednesday to attend the meeting of the Conadi
>National Advisory Board, which, by law, was scheduled for
>Wednesday.  This would have been the first board meeting under
>Conadi's new director Rodrigo Gonzalez, but the eight indigenous
>members refuse to recognize him as Conadi director.  The Conadi
>Board of Directors consists of 16 members, including eight indigenous
>community representatives and eight government members.
>Indigenous groups in the country, including the eight Pehuenche
>families who reject the Ralco hydroelectric project, have refused to
>hold conversations with Gonzalez until he makes official his standing
>on Ralco.
>        Six of the eight indigenous board members held their own
>meeting Wednesday in the Conadi offices in Santiago, while the
>government representatives met with Gonzalez at the Planning
>Ministry (Mideplan).  Gonzalez said it was unfortunate that the
>indigenous board members could not attend the "official" meeting,
>while the indigenous board members said their relations with the
>government were "interrupted."  They said if President Frei has the
>authority to appoint the Conadi director, then the director should at
>least be of indigenous descent with experience in indigenous matters.
>        Gonzalez is a Socialist Party activist believed to support the
>Ralco Dam project.
>        Gonzalez said that it is not generally Conadi's policy, but that
>the land barter contracts signed between 83 Pehuenche families and
>Endesa can be approved without the presence of the indigenous
>board members.
>        --  HANTA VIRUS THREATENS SCOUT JAMBOREE.  Health
>authorities recently completed a study of 29 areas, from the
>Metropolitan region to Region X, as a measure to avoid the spread of
>the deadly Hanta virus during this year's World Scout Jamboree in
>December.  The study examined 1,000 rodents from four different
>

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