COLOMBIA
BBVA increases by 17% social investment in Colombia
Sant Fe de Bogota, February 2012
BBVA Colombia will invest 5,930 million pesos in 2012 on the implementation of its Corporate Responsibility Plan, as reported by the financial institution’s President Oscar Cabrera Izquierdo, “We have increased by 17 percent the amount of investment in our social progress into Colombia and we expect this year to reach more areas and grow in the number of beneficiaries, “said Cabrera Izquierdo, at a press conference of presentation of the initiative, which was also attended by the Mayor of Cartagena de Indias, Campo Elías Terán Dix and Secretary of Education of that city, Bray Ricardo Rosario, in addition to the directors of BBVA allied institutions and a group of journalists from different cities.
The president of the bank also highlighted the commitment of BBVA maintained for several years with the social development of the Coast and the Colombian Caribbean. “BBVA has invested in recent years, not only in Cartagena, Barranquilla, Santa Marta and Valledupar, but also in rural areas and in much of this region more than 1,800 million pesos through our programs to support education and culture. “
Meanwhile, the mayor of Cartagena, asked the senior officer of the bank, continue with the initiatives underway in the city in areas of high vulnerability and support the search to Cartagena, a city that stands for inclusion and social participation worldwide. “I invite BBVA to continue to support educational processes in the city come forward and join the Mayor to make Cartagena a city that stands out for being inclusive and participatory world,” said recently elected district mayor.
BBVA Colombia, the country forward in its Corporate Responsibility Plan under which it has supported more than 34,000 children with their Scholarship Program Integration and delivery of school supplies to benefit 130,000 children in over 35 cities and municipalities the country.
Integration Grants Program, which in 2011 reached the record figure of 12,000 children across the country benefited during 2012 will see expanded coverage, not only geographically but also in facilitating the potential benefits of access to grants to more Colombians.
Moreover, the delivery of educational kits that screen and BBVA launched this year in Cartagena delivering more than 2,000 backpacks with school supplies to children from poor most vulnerable areas of the capital bolivarense be extended in next few days the whole country, and delivered in 2012, over 30,000 school kits.
As new aspects RC Plan BBVA in 2012, is ahead with your future, the Financial Education Program BBVA Colombia during this year will reach 12,000 Colombians, allowing easy access to basic financial topics such as savings, card credit, credit health, security and transactional banking channels, among others, thanks to the mobile classroom will be in Bogota and other cities, offering this course free of charge to customers and not customers of BBVA.
On the other hand, the arrival in Colombia for the first time the Ruta Quetzal BBVA, where 300 young people around the world will travel much of the Colombian geography and will honor José Celestino Mutis Botanical Expedition and directed by him in 1783 .
This expedition will come to Cali this summer and more than 20 days will cover the coffee, the north of Tolima, part of the Magdalena River and the Atlantic Coast will visit the Parque Tayrona, Santa Marta and Cartagena to Bogota where depart finish to Spain.
The Colombian delegation that will participate in this initiative will consist of seven Colombians whose names will be announced in the coming days.
Partnership with Unicef
Furthermore, BBVA has a partnership with UNICEF and the Ministry of Education since 2008 where the financial institution’s customers have made donations to Unicef ??programs, raising 3,800 million pesos.
With these resources, the entities have advanced initiatives such as the school seeks to children and adolescents with a budget of 1,200 million pesos allowed more than 1,000 children from Cartagena return to the classroom.
For support of culture, BBVA began sponsoring the 2012 Hay Festival and Film Festival in Cartagena, besides continuing with roaming BBVA Arts Hall of Names New Central Bank in late February that will Pereira and then travel to Bucaramanga, where roaming end of this sample, the most representative of the Colombian plastic.
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Mining industry should be seen as a source of progress, development and community improvement
The development of the mining industry in Panama should be seen as a source of progress, development and community improvement, where the citizens do not relinquish their oversight role, but they practice it free of deceptions and distortions of reality and were the mining companies meet by vocation of respect to the public interest and the collective rights the rules of mining development, which now a days has the possibility to be discussed and approved in a new opportunity.
To achieve this objective- underlines the Guacamaya Verde, which motto is “Serving the pubic truth”, we have to eradicate the deceits and stories, on time to exhort the space for constructive dialog, the interchange of final ideas to improve the economy and leaving in the future of Panamanians more wealth, development, but also require an inspection by all the responsible interested in the subject.
The Petaquilla Gold, S.A., company, only mining company in process of production in Panama is a dream of childhood, carved, chiseled and sculpted with studies, patients and tenacity, becoming reality by the pioneer in the Panamanian mining industry of the new millennium, the Panamanian businessman Richard Fifer-Carles, which has brought benefits to thousands of Panamanians.
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With the new mining law that would be soon discussed and analyzed in the National Assembly of Deputies, it may be spread more equitably and social balance the profits of this industry in the country, since this is not possible with the current legislation, and much less with the pieces of the legislation that where left in the Mineral Resources code the repellence of the law 8 of 2011, stated the Guacamaya Verde newsletter, in its editorial column of July-august of 2011.
This law will allow, among other things, according to what is exposed in its arguments “Guacamaya Verde” a criteria of mayor equity in the economic, social and human development, which, explains the newsletter that is published every two months by the Petaquilla Gold S.A. Company, under the vision of the businessman Richard Fifer-Carles, must ensure that mining companies contribute to the conservation of the environment, developing their projects in a friendly way with the natural surroundings.
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Expects Panamanians to get as exited as he did
Duke of Veragua shows enthusiasm for Castilla del Oro Foundation projects
The Duke of Veragua, Cristóbal Colón de Carvajal, expressed his enthusiasm by emphasizing that he expects Panamanians, as they learn the main aspects of Castilla del Oro Foundation’s projects, will get as excited as he did.
“I hope that they support with determination and enthusiasm each one of the initiatives with which we intend to bring welfare and development to all these regions of Panama,” stressed the President of Castilla del Oro Foundation during the tour made to Colón to promote the initiative devised by Panamanian businessman Richard Fifer-Carles who seeks to promote rural tourism.
The province of Colon, characterized by the Free Zone’s commercial emporium, railways, posts and other activities related to the Panama Canal bets on tourism by capitalizing on the potential of colonial structures such as forts at St. Laurence and Portobelo.
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Under the vision of businessman Richard Fifer Carles, the Castilla del Oro Foundation was created to channel the earnings generated by the mining activity promoted by Petaquilla Gold, S. A., with the purpose to promote tourism in the rural communities in the central region of the country.
During his recent visit to Panama, the international president of this Foundation, Duke of Veragua, Cristobal Colon de Carvajal, said in repeated occasions that from the beginning he liked this project, once it was presented by Panamanian businessman, Richard Fifer-Carles, to canalize the earnings that the mining activity leaves for projects that will lift up the level of life for people that live in rural areas.
For this, Castilla del oro Foundation has headquarters in Spain and Panama, the first presided by Colon de Carvajal, and the second by Professor Pascual Montañes Duato. The organization has been promoted by Petaquilla Foundation, interested in the development of this area, and owns an honorary patron in which will be made up of outstanding members of society and the corporate world.
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Water law
Madrid, September 2011
The Castilla del Oro Foundation, led by Richard Fifer – Carles and chaired by Cristóbal Colón in Spain will develop importanta social and environmental works in the Cerro del Andévalo – Huelva. In this line concern about environmental issues comes about, in this case, we will address the Water Act
ROYAL LAW DECREE
WWF, SEO / BirdLife, Greenpeace, Ecologists in Action and Friends of the Earth, the five environmentalist NGOs of the Advisory Council on the Environment of the Ministry of Environment rejected the amendment of the Water Act passed in the last Council of Ministers considering it unconstitutional, breaking the basin unit and presenting serious formal irregularities.
The August 26 Council of Ministers approved by surprise a Royal Decree that amends the Consolidated Water Act so that Autonomous Communities may assume responsibility on public water policy. Initially it will apply for Catalonia, Aragon and Andalusia to have it under their statutes. This is a reform that should have been debated in the National Water Council and the Environmental Advisory Council.
The modification is to yield to the autonomous communities powers of control and surveillance that, until now, in intercommunity basins correspond to the hydrographic confederations of the Ministry of Environment, Rural and Marine Affairs, water policy thus remaining in the Autonomous Communities. According to environmental NGOs it is a government step to dismantle any possibility of a state water policy.
With this modification, the state, which defended the constitutionality of this exclusive competition at the Constitutional Court gives a 180 degree turn and gives up its powers.
The NGOs also criticized the haste with which this modification was carried out, using a mechanism, the Legislative Royal Decree which the Constitution reserves for matters “of extraordinary and urgent necessity.” Since the courts have to endorse it in less than 30 days, the NGOs will ask parliamentary groups to oppose this amendment and to defend the exclusive competence of the General Administration of the Public Water State Policy in intercommunity basins. If approved in Court, the NGOs would come to the Ombudsman so that it sent to the Constitutional Court.
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Septiembre de 2011
Edison Gonzalez mayor of the district of Las Tablas, province of Los Santos, has participated since the beginning of the journey of La Castilla del Oro Foundation in Panama and Spain. “It has been of great pride to visit Spain and see how tourism can be the source of sustenance of the people, it is also very important for us to identify our values. The Foundation emphasizes folklore of our lands as a competitive advantage and that makes us proud”.
In regard to his trip to Spain invited by the Foundation led by engineer Richard Fifer – Carles, he added, “we saw that culture and tradition can become a source of income which gives a new breath to economy and allow money to circulate. We see the opportunity for many residents of Los Santos and Herrera to return if we make it our goal to do things right”.
La Castilla del Oro Foundation, is working on the development of Spiritual Tourism at this moment, engine of sustainable development of the region. The participation of the local government and the residents are welcomed by the authorities of the Foundation.
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An important message about the commitment and interest of the Foundation Castilla del Or, run by Richard Fifer, to support its Panamanian counterpart for the realization of works and projects that would boost the tourist activity in the rural areas of the central region of the country, was the result of the tours that was recently done in Panama by the Duke of Veragua, Cristobal Colon de Carvajal.
The Duke in its roe of the international president of the Foundation Castilla del Oro, has remarked that what is planned to do is to replicate the experience of the development of rural tourism in Spain, in Panamanian towns, always under the premise that they are not at a great scale, with the objective of an economic impact of the benefits of tourism in a direct manner to the people involved in small activities and companies that provide the service to the visitors.
During his visit to Panama, Colon de Carvajal visited five provinces with the objective of promoting the tourism activities of the Foundation Castilla del oro, organization conceived by the Panamanian businessman Richard Fifer- Carles.
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Petaquilla Gold SA welcomed geologists, geophysicists, physicists, chemists, and officials of the Ministry of Commerce and Industries.
The responsibility level in all the value chain of the Molejon Project has been emphasized by the visitors. During the visit was detailed how the project began, the phases of exploration study, evaluation and development.
Maximum safety levels
“The Petaquilla Gold SA mining project, led by entrepreneur Richard Fifer-Carles, is a first world work, where they work applying up-to-the-minute technology that allows them to comply with the regulations required internationally in the mining industry, which guarantees the maximum level of safety in the project’s operation”, stated Salazar, geologist-consultant and spokesperson of the company.
The technical reliability of the internal processes that comply with the parameters and nationan an international standards was also mentioned.
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September 2011
The Petaquilla Foundation, led by engineer Richard Fifer – Carles, is inmersed in tasks that allow the development of La Castilla del Oro region, with the natural end of trying to better its inhabitants quality of life. On this line we can emphasize de remodelling of chapels, construction of aqueducts, cleaning and landscaping of public green areas, homes and public institutions painting, cultural and folkloric activities organizations, among other activities. One of the programs with the most success is, Community Organization, that handles the integration into the community of other programs that Petaquilla Foundation promotes such as Health, Education, Production Modules, which enormously benefit the population for its primary objectives and also for the possibility of interacting amongst the proper inhabitants to meet and exchange ideas based on their needs and valued proposals.
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