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Eat bananas, but why not nimporte!
Arbenz, 1954, Zelaya, 2009: Chiquita in Latin America, N. Kozloff.
When the Honduran military overthrew the democratically elected government of Manuel Zelaya, two weeks ago (Translator's note: a bit more now!), There was a sigh of relief in works councils of Chiquita Banana. Earlier this year, the Cincinnati-based company had joined Dole [1] to criticize the Government of Tegucigalpa, which had increased the minimum wage by 60% . Chiquita complained that the new legislation, higher expenses in Costa Rica and thus reduces the profits of the company: to be exact, 20 cents more to produce a crate of pineapples and 10 more for a banana. Chiquita laments that it will lose millions because of the reform of Zelaya as it produces about 8 or 22 million boxes of pineapples or bananas per year, respectively.
When the decree on the minimum wage has been published, Chiquita sought help and called the Honduran Council of Private Enterprise, known by its English acronym COHEP. Like Chiquita, COHEP was unhappy measures Zelaya on the minimum wage. Amilcar Bulnes, president of COHEP, said that if this measure is applied, it would force employers to dismiss employees and would raise the unemployment rate in the country. COHEP, organizing the most important case of Honduras, has 60 chambers of trade and businesses in all sectors of the Honduran economy. According to his own website, COHEP is technical and the political arm of the Honduran private sector, establishing trade agreements and provide "critical support to the democratic system."
The international community should not take economic sanctions against the regime of Tegucigalpa from the coup, said the COHEP, as this would aggravate the social problems in Honduras. In his new role as spokesperson for the poor of Honduras, COHEP said that Honduras has already suffered enough from earthquakes, torrential rains and the global financial crisis. Before punishing blow to Honduras punitive measures, "said COHEP, the UN and the Organization of American States should send observers to Honduras to analyze how such sanctions would penalize 70% of Hondurans living in poverty. At the same time, Bulnes has supported the coup and Micheletti said that conditions in Honduras were not conducive to the return from exile of President Manuel Zelaya.
Chiquita: Arbenz in Bananagate
It is not surprising that Chiquita research and allied forces and social policies the most backward of Honduras. Colsiba, the Coordination of Latin American banana workers' union, said the company has fruit never given any protection to its workers and has always refrained from signing collective labor agreements, whether in Nicaragua, Guatemala or Honduras.
Colsiba compares the hellish conditions of work in the plantations of Chiquita to concentration camps. Although provocative, this comparison contains some truth. Women work in the plantations of Chiquita from 6 am to 7 pm, burning their hands in rubber gloves. Some workers are aged 14 years. The banana workers in Central America has sued Chiquita for having been exposed to DBCP (dibromochloropropane), a dangerous pesticides used in plantations, which causes infertility, cancer and birth defects.
Chiquita, formerly known as the United Fruit Company and United Brands , has a long and sordid history in the politics of Central America [2]. Directed by Sam Zemuray or "Banana Man" enters the United Fruit banana business in the early 20th century. In the meantime, Zemuray issued the famous remark " In Honduras, a mule is more expensive than a member of Parliament . In the 1920s, United Fruit controlled 650,000 acres-about 250,000 hectares of the best- lands of Honduras, about a quarter of the country's arable land. In addition, it controls major roads and railways.
In Honduras, the fruit companies are expanding their influence in all spheres, including military and political, which earned them the nickname of octopus. Those who did not play the game of these corporations were often found face against the floor in plantations. In 1904, comedian O. Henry coined the term "banana republic" to refer to the famous United Fruit Company and its actions in Honduras. In
Guatemala in 1954, United Fruit has supported military coup fomented by the CIA against President Jacob Arbenz , a reformer who had embarked on a series of agrarian reforms. The overthrow of Arbenz generally over thirty years of instability and civil war in Guatemala. Later in 1961, United Fruit lent his boat to the Cuban exiles trained by the CIA to overthrow Fidel Castro at the Bay of Pigs.
In 1972, United Fruit (then renamed United Brands) propelled to power the Honduran General Oswaldo López Arellano. The infamous scandal "Bananagate" bribes, bribes paid by the United Fruit to Arellano, forcing the dictator to leave. A grand jury Federal accused United Brands of bribing Arellano with $ 1.25 million and the promise of a second identical payment if the military agreed to reduce taxes on exports of fruit. During the scandal Bananagate, the President of the United Fruit fell from a skyscraper in New York, apparently a suicide.
The prosperity of the Clinton years and the British
United Fruit also has business in Colombia and during its operations in South America have developed ways to make as dramatic. In 1928, 3,000 workers went on strike against the airline to ask better wages and working conditions. The company initially refused to negotiate, but finally yielded on minor points, saying the other claims "illegal" or "impossible". When the strikers refused to stop the movement, the army opened fire, causing many deaths.
You might think that after that Chiquita had reviewed its policy towards workers, but in the late 90s the company has enlisted allies worrying, especially right-wing paramilitaries. Chiquita paid more than a million dollars to these men. In his defense, Chiquita said she just paid the paramilitaries for their safety.
In 2007, Chiquita paid $ 25 million fine after an investigation by the Justice Department on such payments. Chiquita was the first company in U.S. history found guilty of financial links with a terrorist organization.
In a lawsuit against Chiquita, victims of paramilitary violence have said the company had encouraged atrocities such as terrorism, war crimes and crimes against humanity. A defender of the complainants said that Chiquita's relations with the paramilitaries "were intended to ensure control all aspects of distribution and sale of bananas in a reign of terror. "
In Washington DC, the CEO of Chiquita, Charles Linder, was held to canvass the White House. Linder has been a great funder of the Republican Party before cover money the Democratic Party and Bill Clinton. Clinton compensated Linder supporting militarily and without reservations, the government of Andrés Pastrana (president of Colombia from 1998 to 2002) who reigned during the proliferation of death squads of the extreme right. At that time, the U.S. establishment their programs free of commercial exchange with their "friends" of Latin America under the strategic oversight of an old childhood friend of Clinton, Thomas McLarty or "Mack". McLarty was Secretary General and Special Envoy to Latin America from the White House. It is an intriguing character which I will soon.
The die-Holder Chiquita
Given the troubled past of Chiquita in Central America and Colombia, it is not surprising that the company wanted to join the COHEP Honduras. In addition to courting the business community in Honduras Chiquita has also cultivated relationships with powerful law firms in Washington. According to the Center for Responsive Politics (Center for Responsive Politics), Chiquita paid $ 70,000 in lobbying fees from companies Covington and Burling in the past three years.
Covington is a powerful law firm that advises multinational corporations. Eric Holder, the current Attorney General, a co-chair of the Obama campaign and former Deputy Attorney General under Bill Clinton, was until recently an adviser to the firm. Covington, Eric Holder defended Chiquita as lead counsel in his trial with the Ministry of Justice. From his perch at the elegant new headquarters of the Directorate of Covington, near New York Times building in Manhattan, prepared Holder Fernando Aguirre, Chiquita's general manager for an interview with "60 Minutes" [3] the Colombian death squads.
Holder did plead guilty to the fruit company a point, "his involvement in transactions with a terrorist organization recognized worldwide." But the lawyer, who received a salary therefore in Covington, more than 2 million, negotiated a contract with dreams in which Chiquita paid only $ 25 million over five years. Shockingly, none of the six company officials who had approved the payments did not go to jail.
The curious case of Covington
Dig a little and you will find that not only represents Chiquita Covington, but is also a kind of hub used by the right in its attempts to promote a foreign policy destabilizing Latin America. Covington led a major strategic alliance with Kissinger (Chile, famous year 1973) and McLarty Associates (yes, the same as Mack McLarty, Bill Clinton), an international firm renowned strategy consulting.
From 1974 to 1981 John Bolton was a partner at Covington. As U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under George Bush, Bolton was a fierce critic of the Left in Latin America, for example of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. In addition, there are few, John Negroponte became the vice-chairman of Covington. Negroponte is a former Assistant Secretary of State, Director of National Intelligence and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Negroponte as ambassador to Honduras from the USA from 1981 to 1985, played a major role in U.S. aid to the Contra rebels who wanted to overthrow the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. Rights Defenders Man accused Negroponte of ignoring human rights violations committed by death squads in Honduras, which have been paid and partly trained by the CIA. Of course, when Negroponte was ambassador, he occupied the building in Tegucigalpa became one of the largest hub of the CIA in Latin America with a tenfold increase of its staff.
Although there is no evidence linking Chiquita recent coup in Honduras, there is a convergence of disturbing facts and prominent politicians involved to require further investigation. COHEP of Covington, via Holder, Negroponte and McLarty, Chiquita sought friends in high places, friends who have no penchant for progressive policies on work supported by the regime of Zelaya in Tegucigalpa.
NIKOLA Kozloff
source: www.counterpunch.org
Translation Lawrence EMOR for the big night http://www.legrandsoir.info Nikolas Kozloff
is the author of Revolution! South America and the Rise of the New Left (Revolution / South America and the rise of the New Left) (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008). Check out his blog on senorchichero.blogspot.com.
[1] Historically Dole is the "Hawaiian Pineapple Company," who moved to Hawaii in 1851 where he is suspected of involvement in the eviction of the last queen of Hawaii and helped the U.S. to make one of its territories.
[2] Read "The Green Pope by Miguel Angel Asturias (Albin Michel, 1956)
[3] 60 Minutes, an American television newsmagazine information produced by CBS News and is regularly aired by CBS in the polls hearing.
Boycott Chiquita!
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Arbenz, 1954, Zelaya, 2009: Chiquita in Latin America, N. Kozloff.
When the Honduran military overthrew the democratically elected government of Manuel Zelaya, two weeks ago (Translator's note: a bit more now!), There was a sigh of relief in works councils of Chiquita Banana. Earlier this year, the Cincinnati-based company had joined Dole [1] to criticize the Government of Tegucigalpa, which had increased the minimum wage by 60% . Chiquita complained that the new legislation, higher expenses in Costa Rica and thus reduces the profits of the company: to be exact, 20 cents more to produce a crate of pineapples and 10 more for a banana. Chiquita laments that it will lose millions because of the reform of Zelaya as it produces about 8 or 22 million boxes of pineapples or bananas per year, respectively.
When the decree on the minimum wage has been published, Chiquita sought help and called the Honduran Council of Private Enterprise, known by its English acronym COHEP. Like Chiquita, COHEP was unhappy measures Zelaya on the minimum wage. Amilcar Bulnes, president of COHEP, said that if this measure is applied, it would force employers to dismiss employees and would raise the unemployment rate in the country. COHEP, organizing the most important case of Honduras, has 60 chambers of trade and businesses in all sectors of the Honduran economy. According to his own website, COHEP is technical and the political arm of the Honduran private sector, establishing trade agreements and provide "critical support to the democratic system."
The international community should not take economic sanctions against the regime of Tegucigalpa from the coup, said the COHEP, as this would aggravate the social problems in Honduras. In his new role as spokesperson for the poor of Honduras, COHEP said that Honduras has already suffered enough from earthquakes, torrential rains and the global financial crisis. Before punishing blow to Honduras punitive measures, "said COHEP, the UN and the Organization of American States should send observers to Honduras to analyze how such sanctions would penalize 70% of Hondurans living in poverty. At the same time, Bulnes has supported the coup and Micheletti said that conditions in Honduras were not conducive to the return from exile of President Manuel Zelaya.
Chiquita: Arbenz in Bananagate
It is not surprising that Chiquita research and allied forces and social policies the most backward of Honduras. Colsiba, the Coordination of Latin American banana workers' union, said the company has fruit never given any protection to its workers and has always refrained from signing collective labor agreements, whether in Nicaragua, Guatemala or Honduras.
Colsiba compares the hellish conditions of work in the plantations of Chiquita to concentration camps. Although provocative, this comparison contains some truth. Women work in the plantations of Chiquita from 6 am to 7 pm, burning their hands in rubber gloves. Some workers are aged 14 years. The banana workers in Central America has sued Chiquita for having been exposed to DBCP (dibromochloropropane), a dangerous pesticides used in plantations, which causes infertility, cancer and birth defects.
Chiquita, formerly known as the United Fruit Company and United Brands , has a long and sordid history in the politics of Central America [2]. Directed by Sam Zemuray or "Banana Man" enters the United Fruit banana business in the early 20th century. In the meantime, Zemuray issued the famous remark " In Honduras, a mule is more expensive than a member of Parliament . In the 1920s, United Fruit controlled 650,000 acres-about 250,000 hectares of the best- lands of Honduras, about a quarter of the country's arable land. In addition, it controls major roads and railways.
In Honduras, the fruit companies are expanding their influence in all spheres, including military and political, which earned them the nickname of octopus. Those who did not play the game of these corporations were often found face against the floor in plantations. In 1904, comedian O. Henry coined the term "banana republic" to refer to the famous United Fruit Company and its actions in Honduras. In
Guatemala in 1954, United Fruit has supported military coup fomented by the CIA against President Jacob Arbenz , a reformer who had embarked on a series of agrarian reforms. The overthrow of Arbenz generally over thirty years of instability and civil war in Guatemala. Later in 1961, United Fruit lent his boat to the Cuban exiles trained by the CIA to overthrow Fidel Castro at the Bay of Pigs.
In 1972, United Fruit (then renamed United Brands) propelled to power the Honduran General Oswaldo López Arellano. The infamous scandal "Bananagate" bribes, bribes paid by the United Fruit to Arellano, forcing the dictator to leave. A grand jury Federal accused United Brands of bribing Arellano with $ 1.25 million and the promise of a second identical payment if the military agreed to reduce taxes on exports of fruit. During the scandal Bananagate, the President of the United Fruit fell from a skyscraper in New York, apparently a suicide.
The prosperity of the Clinton years and the British
United Fruit also has business in Colombia and during its operations in South America have developed ways to make as dramatic. In 1928, 3,000 workers went on strike against the airline to ask better wages and working conditions. The company initially refused to negotiate, but finally yielded on minor points, saying the other claims "illegal" or "impossible". When the strikers refused to stop the movement, the army opened fire, causing many deaths.
You might think that after that Chiquita had reviewed its policy towards workers, but in the late 90s the company has enlisted allies worrying, especially right-wing paramilitaries. Chiquita paid more than a million dollars to these men. In his defense, Chiquita said she just paid the paramilitaries for their safety.
In 2007, Chiquita paid $ 25 million fine after an investigation by the Justice Department on such payments. Chiquita was the first company in U.S. history found guilty of financial links with a terrorist organization.
In a lawsuit against Chiquita, victims of paramilitary violence have said the company had encouraged atrocities such as terrorism, war crimes and crimes against humanity. A defender of the complainants said that Chiquita's relations with the paramilitaries "were intended to ensure control all aspects of distribution and sale of bananas in a reign of terror. "
In Washington DC, the CEO of Chiquita, Charles Linder, was held to canvass the White House. Linder has been a great funder of the Republican Party before cover money the Democratic Party and Bill Clinton. Clinton compensated Linder supporting militarily and without reservations, the government of Andrés Pastrana (president of Colombia from 1998 to 2002) who reigned during the proliferation of death squads of the extreme right. At that time, the U.S. establishment their programs free of commercial exchange with their "friends" of Latin America under the strategic oversight of an old childhood friend of Clinton, Thomas McLarty or "Mack". McLarty was Secretary General and Special Envoy to Latin America from the White House. It is an intriguing character which I will soon.
The die-Holder Chiquita
Given the troubled past of Chiquita in Central America and Colombia, it is not surprising that the company wanted to join the COHEP Honduras. In addition to courting the business community in Honduras Chiquita has also cultivated relationships with powerful law firms in Washington. According to the Center for Responsive Politics (Center for Responsive Politics), Chiquita paid $ 70,000 in lobbying fees from companies Covington and Burling in the past three years.
Covington is a powerful law firm that advises multinational corporations. Eric Holder, the current Attorney General, a co-chair of the Obama campaign and former Deputy Attorney General under Bill Clinton, was until recently an adviser to the firm. Covington, Eric Holder defended Chiquita as lead counsel in his trial with the Ministry of Justice. From his perch at the elegant new headquarters of the Directorate of Covington, near New York Times building in Manhattan, prepared Holder Fernando Aguirre, Chiquita's general manager for an interview with "60 Minutes" [3] the Colombian death squads.
Holder did plead guilty to the fruit company a point, "his involvement in transactions with a terrorist organization recognized worldwide." But the lawyer, who received a salary therefore in Covington, more than 2 million, negotiated a contract with dreams in which Chiquita paid only $ 25 million over five years. Shockingly, none of the six company officials who had approved the payments did not go to jail.
The curious case of Covington
Dig a little and you will find that not only represents Chiquita Covington, but is also a kind of hub used by the right in its attempts to promote a foreign policy destabilizing Latin America. Covington led a major strategic alliance with Kissinger (Chile, famous year 1973) and McLarty Associates (yes, the same as Mack McLarty, Bill Clinton), an international firm renowned strategy consulting.
From 1974 to 1981 John Bolton was a partner at Covington. As U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under George Bush, Bolton was a fierce critic of the Left in Latin America, for example of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. In addition, there are few, John Negroponte became the vice-chairman of Covington. Negroponte is a former Assistant Secretary of State, Director of National Intelligence and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Negroponte as ambassador to Honduras from the USA from 1981 to 1985, played a major role in U.S. aid to the Contra rebels who wanted to overthrow the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. Rights Defenders Man accused Negroponte of ignoring human rights violations committed by death squads in Honduras, which have been paid and partly trained by the CIA. Of course, when Negroponte was ambassador, he occupied the building in Tegucigalpa became one of the largest hub of the CIA in Latin America with a tenfold increase of its staff.
Although there is no evidence linking Chiquita recent coup in Honduras, there is a convergence of disturbing facts and prominent politicians involved to require further investigation. COHEP of Covington, via Holder, Negroponte and McLarty, Chiquita sought friends in high places, friends who have no penchant for progressive policies on work supported by the regime of Zelaya in Tegucigalpa.
NIKOLA Kozloff
source: www.counterpunch.org
Translation Lawrence EMOR for the big night http://www.legrandsoir.info Nikolas Kozloff
is the author of Revolution! South America and the Rise of the New Left (Revolution / South America and the rise of the New Left) (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008). Check out his blog on senorchichero.blogspot.com.
[1] Historically Dole is the "Hawaiian Pineapple Company," who moved to Hawaii in 1851 where he is suspected of involvement in the eviction of the last queen of Hawaii and helped the U.S. to make one of its territories.
[2] Read "The Green Pope by Miguel Angel Asturias (Albin Michel, 1956)
[3] 60 Minutes, an American television newsmagazine information produced by CBS News and is regularly aired by CBS in the polls hearing.
Boycott Chiquita!
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Monday, August 17, 2009
Can A Person Contract Folliculitis From A Dog?
Prefect racist
The investigation by prosecutors of Creteil for "public insults of a racial nature" will tell the prefect if senior executive Paul Girot de Langlade, 63, has indeed kept at Orly, July 31, the About that motivate the complaint filed the same day by a female security guard at the airport.
According to the complainant, Mr. Girot de Langlade had started on it the contents of his pockets after she was asked to empty the security checkpoint with rang. "We're where? It's like here in Africa", would he exclaimed, before declaring: "Anyway, there are only Blacks here." The firm denies
remarks and denounced a "manipulation". He acknowledged only having upset. In 2002, Mr. Girot de Langlade, then prefect of Vaucluse, had publicly declared his hostility to Travellers: "I have no particular affection for these people. They live in our hooks, rapine as everyone knows. "
Four years later, became Prefect of Indre-et-Loire, he felt: "There are too many (Traveller) to the department." The complaints filed against him had not resulted in a conviction for legal reasons.
Still: a senior representative of the state guarantor of republican values and social cohesion refers to "those people" about a category of the population, condemning the surplus estimating the excess is simply unacceptable. In 2007, the prefect Girot de Langlade had also been placed "out of context" after these words.
That the current regime has chosen a senior official with this profile to coordinate the States General of the Overseas appears at least as a blunder. The eagerness of the interior minister, Brice Hortefeux, to suspend him from his position after the opening of an investigation does not, moreover, without hypocrisy, prefect of the mission was almost complete after giving his report, July 30.
remains the context for the remarks attributed to Mr. Girot de Langlade: that of France, where dealing with a black employee does not just happen, where to be French, but not white skin continues to raise questions .
On 7 June, the mayor (SP) in Evry, Manuel Valls, did not hesitate to estimate that there are not enough "whites, white, of blancos" in a flea market in his town. Declaration more than problematic, again. The cabinet has given sociological afterwards Mr Valls only masks a very perilous and confusing which is not uncommon among the racial and social issues.
Le Monde, August 17, 2009
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The investigation by prosecutors of Creteil for "public insults of a racial nature" will tell the prefect if senior executive Paul Girot de Langlade, 63, has indeed kept at Orly, July 31, the About that motivate the complaint filed the same day by a female security guard at the airport.
According to the complainant, Mr. Girot de Langlade had started on it the contents of his pockets after she was asked to empty the security checkpoint with rang. "We're where? It's like here in Africa", would he exclaimed, before declaring: "Anyway, there are only Blacks here." The firm denies
remarks and denounced a "manipulation". He acknowledged only having upset. In 2002, Mr. Girot de Langlade, then prefect of Vaucluse, had publicly declared his hostility to Travellers: "I have no particular affection for these people. They live in our hooks, rapine as everyone knows. "
Four years later, became Prefect of Indre-et-Loire, he felt: "There are too many (Traveller) to the department." The complaints filed against him had not resulted in a conviction for legal reasons.
Still: a senior representative of the state guarantor of republican values and social cohesion refers to "those people" about a category of the population, condemning the surplus estimating the excess is simply unacceptable. In 2007, the prefect Girot de Langlade had also been placed "out of context" after these words.
That the current regime has chosen a senior official with this profile to coordinate the States General of the Overseas appears at least as a blunder. The eagerness of the interior minister, Brice Hortefeux, to suspend him from his position after the opening of an investigation does not, moreover, without hypocrisy, prefect of the mission was almost complete after giving his report, July 30.
remains the context for the remarks attributed to Mr. Girot de Langlade: that of France, where dealing with a black employee does not just happen, where to be French, but not white skin continues to raise questions .
On 7 June, the mayor (SP) in Evry, Manuel Valls, did not hesitate to estimate that there are not enough "whites, white, of blancos" in a flea market in his town. Declaration more than problematic, again. The cabinet has given sociological afterwards Mr Valls only masks a very perilous and confusing which is not uncommon among the racial and social issues.
Le Monde, August 17, 2009
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Sunday, August 16, 2009
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Broken Capillary In Breat
sale of two EPRs to China, Areva and EDF corrupt?
- Kang Rixin, the head of China's nuclear, would have been bribed to buy two EPR
- The CEO of Areva and EDF have signed agreements with Kang Rixin on these EPR
- Only the assumption of corruption can explain that the Chinese have bought PRT
The corruption charges by Chinese authorities against Kang Rixin, head of China's nuclear program and president of the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), finally bringing an explanation to one of the greatest mysteries industrial recent years.
He was previously incomprehensible that the Chinese persist in the absurd idea to buy from France two EPR nuclear reactors. Indeed, the two EPR projects currently underway are proving to be financial and industrial disasters (1), both Areva in Finland for EDF in Flamanville (Manche).
In recent months, virtually all companies that had planned to buy nuclear reactors were canceled or rejected the EPR construction projects EPR as is the case of Eskom (South Africa) ( 2) and AmerenUE (Missouri, USA). (3)
workaround, EDF bought British Energy at great expense to control itself and build PRT in Great Britain. But on 1 July, the British Nuclear Safety Authority has uncovered a serious security flaw (4) in the control system of the EPR, dashing hopes of Areva and EDF, the latter thus 15 billion spent for nothing.
Only countries whose leaders do not know anything about nuclear - as Mr Sarkozy (France) and Mr Berlusconi (Italy) - are still considering the construction of EPR, they should quickly be overtaken by reality and finally take serious decisions (that is to say, save energy and develop renewable energy).
That said, if Kang Rixin is corrupt, it's good he has done business with mischief. Areva and EDF are the beneficiaries of the transaction, it is legitimate to wonder if the CEOs of these companies have not "forgotten" a few million dollars in car Kang Rixin after signing agreements with him (see http://fce.ccifc.org/2007-11/doc/contrats.pdf ) for construction (Areva) and exploitation (EDF) of the two EPR in question.
(1) http://www.romandie.com/infos/news2/090128145612.11l8clh1.asp
(2) http://www.enviro2b.com/2008/12/08/nucleaire-lafrique -du-sud-cancels-the-project-epr
(3) http://www.romandie.com/infos/news2/090423195314.nwvkt3ei.asp
(4) http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors / natural_resources/article6613960.ece 
- Kang Rixin, the head of China's nuclear, would have been bribed to buy two EPR
- The CEO of Areva and EDF have signed agreements with Kang Rixin on these EPR
- Only the assumption of corruption can explain that the Chinese have bought PRT
The corruption charges by Chinese authorities against Kang Rixin, head of China's nuclear program and president of the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), finally bringing an explanation to one of the greatest mysteries industrial recent years.
He was previously incomprehensible that the Chinese persist in the absurd idea to buy from France two EPR nuclear reactors. Indeed, the two EPR projects currently underway are proving to be financial and industrial disasters (1), both Areva in Finland for EDF in Flamanville (Manche).
In recent months, virtually all companies that had planned to buy nuclear reactors were canceled or rejected the EPR construction projects EPR as is the case of Eskom (South Africa) ( 2) and AmerenUE (Missouri, USA). (3)
workaround, EDF bought British Energy at great expense to control itself and build PRT in Great Britain. But on 1 July, the British Nuclear Safety Authority has uncovered a serious security flaw (4) in the control system of the EPR, dashing hopes of Areva and EDF, the latter thus 15 billion spent for nothing.
Only countries whose leaders do not know anything about nuclear - as Mr Sarkozy (France) and Mr Berlusconi (Italy) - are still considering the construction of EPR, they should quickly be overtaken by reality and finally take serious decisions (that is to say, save energy and develop renewable energy).
That said, if Kang Rixin is corrupt, it's good he has done business with mischief. Areva and EDF are the beneficiaries of the transaction, it is legitimate to wonder if the CEOs of these companies have not "forgotten" a few million dollars in car Kang Rixin after signing agreements with him (see http://fce.ccifc.org/2007-11/doc/contrats.pdf ) for construction (Areva) and exploitation (EDF) of the two EPR in question.
(1) http://www.romandie.com/infos/news2/090128145612.11l8clh1.asp
(2) http://www.enviro2b.com/2008/12/08/nucleaire-lafrique -du-sud-cancels-the-project-epr
(3) http://www.romandie.com/infos/news2/090423195314.nwvkt3ei.asp
(4) http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors / natural_resources/article6613960.ece
Monday, August 10, 2009
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