Please forward to Bitte an Präsidentin Chinchilla
President Chinchilla und Minister Castro
and Minister Castro weiterleiten



Dear President Chinchilla,

I have learned about plans to start a gold-mining operation in the Crucitas region at the expense of primary rainforest. This is rather shocking information as i know Costa Rica as a country very aware of the benefits it generates from green and alive rainforest.

From what i read, the decision for the decret opening this destructive development was made by the former president Arias in a manner causing lot of discussion and dissent. I am not familiar with details of the inglorius recent Costa Rican history, but have read also about several of the countries former presidents have gone through court cases (and even jail) with indictments of corruption and alike - and now i wonder if the Crucitas decret is one of this cases?

Luckily quite many Costa Rican speak up against these intransparent and destructive decisions - and as i have read in a paper, a few even have gone on hungerstrike to show their serious opposition against this threat to forest, animals, water and people in Costa Rica.

I congratulate Costa Rica for this people investing so much energy and time in the countries safe future and ask you, to take a lead in this by nullifying the decret of the former president and stop this destructive project before it does any harm.

Thank you for your serious consideration of this matter.

Sincerely,





cc: Minister René Castro
environmental NGOs
media




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