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Gene
Warfare in Oaxaca
Genetic
Mutation of Mexican Maize
By
CAMELO RUIZ MARRERO
Scientists from Mexico, Canada and the
United States met on March 11th this year in the Hotel Victoria
in Oaxaca for a symposium on the effects and possible risks of
the presence of genetically modified maize in Mexico. The furtive
and growing presence of this maize has been documented in small
plots of land belonging to rural workers first in the southern
State of Oaxaca and more recently throughout the whole country.
This discovery could have serious implications for agricultural
biodiversity since maize is the third most important crop in
the world after wheat and rice and Mexico is the center of its
origin and diversity.
Alejandro de Avila, director
of the Oaxaca Ethnobotanic Garden reported that the most recent
archaeological studies indicate that maize was discovered and
domesticated in Oaxaca ten thousand years ago, not six thousand
or eight thousand as had been believed until recently. Maize
is considered to be humanity's greatest agricultural achievement
and the greatest treasure Christopher Columbus took back to Europe
from the American continent.
Today, it is grown all around
the Mediterranean, in Africa and in China. But its center of
diversity continues to be Mexico, where the greatest part of
the thousands of varieties and stocks are sown which are the
result of millenia of patient work and experiment by campesinos.
These varieties were developed so as to bring out favorable characteristics
such as, among others, nutritional value, tolerance to acidic
or salty soils, immunity to disease. There is even a variety
which fixes its own nitrogen. It is far from strange to see in
an indigenous community like Sierra Juarez of Oxaca more varieties
of maize than in the whole of the United States.
This astonishing diversity
leads agronomists from all over the world to travel to Mexico
to get specimens so as to improve their own varieties of maize
which is the reason Mexico is the seat of the International Center
for Investigations for the Improvement of Maize and Wheat (CIMMYT).
The maize fields of the Mexican campesinos are thus an irreplaceable
resource of agricultural biodiversity. Social or ecological disruption
in that area might compromise the viability of maize as a food
and endanger world food supply. The CIMMYT, with all its laboratories
and seed banks, could not replace the dense and complex rural
social and ecological skein from which innumerable varieties
of maize srping.
That morning of March 11th,
while the participants arrived at the hotel to register for the
symposium of the Commission on Environmental Cooperation, which
resulted from the parallel agreement of the North American Free
Trade Area, the organizers and private security guards seemed
tense and expectant. They knew a protest demonstration was imminent
and that the demonstrators would arrive any moment.
The day before, groups representing
indigenous people, environmentalists and progressive intellectuals
had held an alternative forum called 'Defending Our Maize, Protecting
Life'. They feared that the experts, generally favourable to
the biotechnology industry and its genetically modified products
would declare that the genetic contamination of maize is an irreversible
fact of life and that in future Mexicans would have to get used
to it. The forum participants agreed to go to the symposium the
following day so as to present their arguments and concerns to
the bureaucrats and the scientists. Their admission to the symposium
was not confirmed, but they were going to go anyway.
Enter genetically
modified foods
In 1996 the US began to grow
genetically modified maize and in five years it came to make
up 30% of that crop's national harvest. Mexican scientists and
environmentalists expressed concern that this maize might enter
Mexico through imports with uncertain consequences for agricultural
biodiversoty. The government responded the following year by
imposing a moratorium on the sowing of genetically modified crops.
But the measure was never complied with and maize imports carried
on without any regulation at all. No one ever explained to people
in Mexico that those grains could not be used as seed.
Already in 1999 the Mexican
branch of Greenpeace had analyzed samples of United States maize
that were entering the country and had shown positive traces
of genetic modification. The government then formed the Interdepartmental
Commission on Bio-security and Genetically Modified Organisms
(CIBIOGEM) to examine the issue. To this day it has done nothing
according to civil society groups. The web page of CIBIOGEM has
not been updated since August 2003.
In 2001 it was proven that
genetically modified maize had been used as seed and sown by
rural families who had no idea what it was. Silvia Ribeiro of
the Action group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration (ETC
Group) remarks, 'And that's not all. You're talking about contamination
in the very centre of origin of a crop with huge importance for
world food supply, which means significant effects in other zones
since the contamination can spread not just to the native varieties
of maize but also to their wild parents.'
This genetic flow 'contaminates
and degrades one of Mexico's main treasures. In contrast to dispersion
and genetic flow between native maize and conventional hybrid
varieties, it doesn't just transfer maize genes but also pieces
of genes of bacterias and viruses (that have nothing to do with
maize) whose environmental and health effects have not been seriously
evaluated.'
'The contamination of our traditional
maize attacks the fundamental autonomy of our indigenous and
agricultural communities because we are not just talking of our
food source; maize is a vital part of our cultural heritage,"
declares indigenous leader Aldo Gonzalez, 'For us native seeds
are an important element of our culture. The pyramids may have
disappeared and been destroyed but a handful of maize is a legacy
we can leave behind for our children and grandchildren and today
they are denying us that possibility.'
The following year environmental,
indigenous and rural workers organizations took their case to
the North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation (CCA),
an inter-governmental body created to remedy environmental problems
caused by the Free Trade Treaty. The CCA took up the case and
named a multinational panel of 17 experts to investigate the
problem and to report with recommendations.
The panel took submissions
from the public but only via Internet, which outraged the rural
workers and indigenous peoples. After all, how many Mixteca or
Zapateca communities in the Sierra Juarez have internet cafes?
To respond to demand for authentic participation, the CCA set
up the panel to carry out the symposium of March 11th.
In the meantime, the Fox government
did what wanted. At the end of last year Victor Villalobos the
executive secretary of CIBIOGEM and coordinator of international
affairs for the Department of Agriculture signed an international
agreement as part of the Free Trade Treaty behind the backs of
the Senate and the citizenry permitting legal entry to genetically
modified products into the country without labelling requirements
Countdown
to Oaxaca
One month before the March
11th symposium, the Seventh Biodiversity Convention was held
in Malaysia, followed immediately by the first conference on
the Cartagena Protocol, also in Malaysia. The Protocol which
entered into effect last Septemberis an international agreement
to deal with the possible risks posed by genetic engineering.
During the conference a dispute broke out when Professor Terje
Traavik of the Norwegian Institute for Genetic Ecology presented
a pilot study which pointed to the dangers for human health inherent
in genetically modified crops and in the very process of genetic
engineering.
On the other side of the world,
the day before, in Washington DC, the Union of Concerned Scientists
(UCS) presented a study indicating that varieties of traditional
United States maize seeds, soya and canola used as a reference
and source of re-supply by agronomists and farmers are contaminated
with genetically modified material. Taken together the studies
of Traavik and the UCS make up a damning critique of the biotechnology
industry.
In the Conference on the Cartagena
Protocol, after many difficulties and intense negotiations the
delegations of the signatory countries imposed themselves against
the pressures of the multinational genetic engineering companies
and reached an agreement. The agreement required that all genetically
engineered products traded internationally should be labelled.
But this agreement came to nothing because at the last minute,
right before it was to be signed, the head of the Mexican delegation,
the same Victor Villalobos of CIBIOGEM said that he found the
text unacceptable. Even the members of the Mexican delegation
looked at him openmouthed and dumbfounded. As the Protocol works
by consent, Villalobos managed to scupper all the hard won progress
and so the delegates had to return home with a diluted, emasculated
agreement that left the matter of labelling in the hands of individual
governments. Various observers asked, if each country is to do
as it pleases what point is there to an international agreement?
The reaction of civil society
in Mexico was furious. In the forum of March 10th, the participants
signed a declaration against Villalobos demanding his resignation.
'We are ashamed that Mexico is accused in international fora
of doing the dirty work of multinational corporations to the
detriment of other countries,' says the declaration. 'Villalobos
represents neither the feelings nor the interests of Mexicans.'
They rejected too the 'intolerable
corruption' of officials who promote genetically modified organisms
like-it-or-not style. 'We are not interested in confirming whether
or not they receive money from the corporations, whether they
behave out of mercenary self-interest, ignorance or recklessness.
We are not the police. But nor do need more investigation to
be able to affirm unreservedly that they do not represent us
and that they are incapable of understanding our reality and
aspirations, much less defend them.'
And to sharpen the tense atmosphere
that growing up around the Oaxaca symposium, news arrived of
the vote in Mendocino County, California in the US approving
a measure against genetically modified foods.
Different
languages
The demonstrators finally arrived
at the Hotel Victoria: rural workers, Greenpeace militants, indigenous
peoples representatives, academics and committed intellectuals,
all entering to register for the symposium. the organizers wisely
gave them all admission and the conference hall promptly changed
into a Tower of Babel. The scientists, bureaucrats and journalists
who spoke English, Spanish or French were now accompanied by
indigenous peoples speaking Mixteco, Zapateco, Chinanteco or
any other of dozens of pre-Colombian languages that are spoken
in the region.
The differences between the
two parties went far beyond language barriers. It was a clash
between ways of thinking and world views totally distinct and
incompatible. The members of the CEC panel spoke in a highly
technical language limiting themselves to their particular speciality.
They tried to discuss ethical, technical environmental and economic
issues in isolation from each other.
But the indigenous peoples
and their allies with an integral, holistic vision did not accept
this. For them it was unethical to look at the various issues
separately. They spoke of their age old indigenous cosmology,
spirituality, culture, inalienable principles and duties, colonialism,
neo-liberalism, sovereignty and struggle. They raised the risks
of genetically modified products and questioned industrialized
agriculture and the power of the agribusiness multinationals.
The demonstrators demanded
the end of all maize imports, genetically engineered or not,
and that the government comply with its inescapable duty to act
to hold back and stop genetic contamination. 'We seek the solidarity
and support of all in Mexico and the world, who have taken up
a struggle similar to our own so as to extend ever further the
territories free from genetically modified food.'
Carmelo RUIZ MARRERO is a journalist based in Puerto Rico
published in Ecoportal and other media. He is the author of ,
'Agricultura y globalizacion: Alimentos transgenicos y control
corporativo" published by the Americas Program of the Interhemispheric
Resource Center. This article was assisted by Tania Fernandez
for EcoPortal.
Translation by toni solo
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