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Monday, October 27, 2008 La Jornada de Oriente - Puebla - Culture

ALONSO FORGE

In August 2007, the English company Befesa announced the construction of the project sustainable development system Zimapán, Hidalgo, which consist of a center of industrial toxic waste. Since the announcement, various groups, including Citizen Movement "We are all Zimapán" and Greenpeace called for the cancellation of the project due to the likely environmental damage to the region and the consequences for the local population.

In 2008, Channel Six, July documented this case through his production Welcome to Zimapán: toxic cemetery, directed by Mario Viveros, who worked for eight years the media project. Occasion his visit to find alternative means of UIA last week and the next screening of the documentary within the scavenging Fest in November, La Jornada de Oriente interviewed Viveros, who is also a researcher at the research and production of the image Autonomous University of Mexico City and adjunct professor of film at the University Center of Cinematographic Studies of the UNAM.

Unlike other issues addressed in the Channel Six of July, this time the initiative came from people working Zimapan, who between April and May this year sent a letter to Carlos Mendoza, director and founder of the channel, asking support in developing a documentary.

"Mendoza put him in consideration of the companions of the Canal and decided to make a short paper, on the one hand they were useful to them, and another would allow us to approach a topic that interested us and that most do not address as a producer , which is the subject of ecology in our country. Then we went to work and turned out it was so much information and so interesting that there was a job one hour six minutes. "

- How does he approach the characters? We travel

Zimapán and began to look closely at the issue. Talking to people and begin to relate them to try to understand the problem from their perspective. At the same time we are interested in everything that existed on the issue of landfills, we review the existing information, the news story of the problem, the performance of the company, which requested an interview that he gave us.

"As we try to talk with people from the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources and the Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection, but neither responded to our request. On a second visit to Zimapán could resolve images that we were hanging the last time. "

- What is the importance of knowing the problems of this production?

"What we found with the documentary and research is essential that these strategies among the world's multinationals and governments, not just Mexican, but virtually all over the world, pass over the will of citizens. Corrupt the state in pursuit of economic profit companies, scorn human life and the damages that can generate, not only for citizens but for the global environment.

"That is why I believe that the confinement of Zimapán is a clear example of this perverse strategy of neoliberalism, which lies a complex web of complicity that harms the poorest people, generally indigenous, but in the long term to all in general. "

With the idea to publicize the work of nurseries and Channel Six in July related to this problem, the scavenging Fest screening of "Welcome to Zimapán: cemetery toxic", on November 15 in the base of San Pedro Cholula. "It is urgent that people become aware of the importance of caring for, prevent and reuse things for the environment. I think culture and art works they can help sensitize the general population. It is undeniable that the tremendous impact the environment and that we reached and we must do to begin this arduous journey of rebuilding. "