It is irresponsible to pretend that the Pilcomayo River is not contaminated. The breakage of the tailings of a dam, where waste from the mining exploitation accumulates, is damaging that tributary. Not only has the water changed color and now tastes and smells of metals, making it unsuitable for human consumption, but the fish are being poisoned. The Deputy Minister of the Environment, Magin Herrera, stated that the PH of the liquid will not cause fish mortality. He should be the most concerned, because his mission is to preserve natural resources and protect the populations, rather than seek justifications for the predatory activity of the miners in Potosí and its surroundings. The country is doing very badly with these authorities.
Finally, the pope pronounced on Nicaragua, although his voice sounded lukewarm in the face of the abuses that the Daniel Ortega regime is committing. This president began by imprisoning opposition leaders, continued with journalists and artists, and then crowned his disastrous career with priests of the Catholic Church who did not bow to him. He needed several former presidents of Latin America to exhort the pope for Jorge Bergoglio to make a slight mention of the Central American country. Pope Francis says he prays for “sincere dialogue.” So, you have to ask yourself how you can dialogue with a dictator who commits so many abuses in his country. The pope, who began with a renovating and revolutionary image, lowers the tone with certain regimes that already have the censorship of the democratic world.
