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Article

2 Feb 2016

Author:
Darío Aranda (Nancy Piñeiro , translator), TeleSUR English

Argentina: Protesters continue to block Monsanto seed plant citing social & environmental impacts

“Argentine Social Movements Strike Back Against Monsanto”

The most recent blow to the corporation occurred when it made a new attempt to enter the site in the municipality of Malvinas Argentinas, in the province of Cordoba. Protesters received an eviction notice, but local socio-environmental assemblies mobilized to strengthen the blockade, and a prosecutor suspended the order…The world’s largest GMO Corporation never imagined that it would suffer one of its major setbacks in a small, rural town in central Argentina.  Popular opposition, irregularities in the company’s environmental impact assessment, a protest blockade at the entry gate, and a court ruling stalled the construction of its seeds plant three years ago…Protesters received an eviction notice, but local socio-environmental assemblies mobilized to strengthen the blockade, and a prosecutor suspended the order…[The] ruling issued by a provincial court on Jan. 8, 2014, declared the ordinance that allowed for the installation of Monsanto’s plant unconstitutional…[And] the Secretariat of Environment had rejected the company’s Environmental Impact Assessment due to serious inconsistencies…Article 20 of the Provincial Law promoting “environmental coexistence” is still in force (Law no. 10208) and it states that no company whose environmental impact study has been rejected can submit it again…Monsanto made no statements regarding the events of two weeks ago. But it did call the neighbors “violent” on different occasions, removed its top management in Argentina and made it known that they aim to install the plant in 2016…