Audi Puebla: Model City of Neoextractivism

Audi Puebla: Model City of Neoextractivism
By Diego Velázquez
https://www.semanarioelreto.com/single-post/2017/03/15/Ciudad-Modelo-Audi-%C2%BFCiudad-Nazi-II
http://quoruminformativo.com.mx/index.php/2017/03/20/ciudad-modelo-audi-ciudad-nazi-ii/

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The constitutional dispute carried out by the municipalities of Mazalpiltepec and Soltepec in Puebla against the Decentralized Public Agency of the Audi City Model (Organismo Público Descentralizado de la Ciudad Modelo Audi), allows us to understand the low totalitarian sense which was designed and is going to continue to run this urbano-productivo scheme. The Government of Antonio Gali is not intended to change any of the structures he inherited from the previous administration and maintains the perspective of neoextractivism projects in the State. For the State Government economic modernization is a permanent objective; more than the development of a social policy. Public administration has invited foreign capital to take part in the development of the neoextractivism. The frustrated rural cities in Chiapas policies are adopted although with another name. Puebla adopts a series of centralizing policies that help the population scattered to concentrate in a single point where they are the most basic services in order to reduce the expenditure of the State Government: Integrators and Integral Service Centers (CIS Centros Integradores e Integrales de Servicios).  In addition to the Sierra Norte, are considered within policy neoextractivistas the other two regions that have greater presence of indigenous population: the North-Eastern Sierra and Black Sierra.  In the immediate future, Puebla is a space full of opencast mining, hydraulic fractures (fracking), cities model (Smart Cities), hydroelectric power, distributions of wind energy, null federalism and policies that benefit the private sector only . The cities are the first real enemy of nature and tradition. The way in which human groups seek to develop the amenities that allow them a better existence leads to the exhaustion of certain natural resources and, above all, the imposition of a human wills over others. Progress remains gaining its right to floor: the extinction of nature, tradition and human beings, continue and continue to share. Creation technologies, development and civilization, have led to phenomena such as population growth and the decline of the Earth's capacity to sustain the consumption of basic requirements. As soon as makes progress, the bigger the risk of damage such as floods, storms, increased precipitation, changes in climatic zones, famine, small ecosystems, extinction of various species, human displacement, migration, drought, diseases, among others, human society and the environment that face new risks and pressures. The destruction of the environment is one of the greatest threats to life, because it means stripping the land of forests, affect other ecosystems such as the soil, contaminate water and since this keeps us alive and helps to maintain the ecological equilibrium and biodiversity, which in many occasions they influence weather and climate variations , if there is no balance in nature, there is no man. 

Mexico has blossomed, with a modern dialectic, irreconcilable, according to John Womack. There have been human groups - communities-which is considered not to be subject to negotiation. This is the principle when they fight with all its strength to defend its environment. The history of modernization and large capital is inserted over the blood of indigenous and peasant communities. How will want to modernity and progress if, almost always, these words are synonymous with extermination and violence for them? The unconstitutionality of the Audi City Model obliges the Government of Puebla to make a reconsideration of productive urban design in this region, as well as neoextractivism policies and privatization of water that are imposed through violence to human rights and to the municipalities of the entity. Some of the suggestions that are prescribed are:

-more broadly to evaluate public policy, from its planning until the end of its implementation. 

-Front combat corruption of these projects

-take into account the worldview and anthropology of farmers and rural communities facing modernization processes

-include participatory budgeting technology 

- see transitional stages in the transition from the rural to the urban 

- consider forms of alternative development 

- observe structural historical conflicts in rural communities before the modernization of the same. Every project of public policy must take into account lifestyle having the same beneficiaries. If development implies a discomfort with globalization, then we will create the right relief policies (Guillermo Pérez Fernández del Castillo). The Decentralized Public Agency of the Audi City Model is an unconstitutional body which can see the lack of responsible governance and the totalitarian practice of the mega-project by AUDI and the panista Government of Puebla. Rafael Moreno Valle proposes destroying federalism municipal of Mexico. For a long time has been concealed information from the company and authorities; but, with the creation of this decentralized autonomous body, it can be said that the city model will be the first private city in Latin American. Individual guarantees of the inhabitants, the rights of society are violated and it is privatizing a part of our country for decades. It is an undemocratic body that passes over the dignity of persons. The role of the Local Congress put aside all responsibility to our country and gave way to economic interests. These are times that Mexico needs their political representatives to loyalty and nationalism. Local members of Puebla are not to rise to the historic occasion. With his endorsement, they reveal ignorance of social reality, their insensitivity and servility. 

The municipality is the cell of Mexican federalism, is a school of civics and democracy. The creation of such agencies condemn to failure the municipal government. It is true that our country has municipalities of various types and cultures; However, not destroy them, and fade them for the sake of a so-called economic growth that, as evidenced by these recent times, are only modernizing fallacies. The morenovallista Government was confronted with federalism, attacked the municipalities and was authoritarian with the representative institutions of local government. Puebla is a model of Feuderalismo. Destroyed the State Center of municipal development, the development of the municipality and even consultants attending councils. Training, assistance and support of the municipality, are permanent absence of the State governments who only socialized corruption. The constitutional controversy is the first urgent step, the citizens and their authorities should insist on the supervision of the Justice of all the project of the Audi City Model. Social movements that have defeated the neoextractivismo, even in Puebla, in our country can serve example to the legal route to decrease abuse of the German company to our State. Citizens in Puebla and their municipalities should be alert to intervene and participate in the local government. Governance implies co-responsibility of the authorities and the citizens, consider that the market can solve everything is even more dangerous than the anarchist fundamentalism minded. Not correct the edges of the city model Audi are would be giving way to the total privatization of the Puebla dynamics. The mayors who are beginning to question the performance of the Local Congress and State Government are right to stimulate the municipality and the law. It is necessary to save the local life before it's too late.