Victor Manuel Campos This is Me

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1. 1. NicaNet > International Support Needed for Nicaragua’s Indigenous Lands Law

   www.nicanet.org/?p=36 - [Cached]

   Published on: 11/3/2007   Last Visited: 2/3/2008

   A jubilant Victor Campos, Deputy Director of the Humboldt Center, said, "This formal recognition of the rights which indigenous peoples and communities have to their ancestral lands validates their long struggle, just as it accepts their right to use and to profit from the resources of those lands.

2. 2. LatinAmerican Post

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   Published on: 1/1/1999   Last Visited: 1/28/2007

   "Environmentally it would be a disaster," says Victor Manuel Campos, co-founder of the Humboldt Center, an environmental group in Managua.

3. 3. www.nicanet.org

   www.nicanet.org/?p=438 - [Cached]

   Published on: 11/27/2007   Last Visited: 2/3/2008

   Victor Campos, Assistant Director of the Center, said that his organization had visited 27 maquiladoras in March and April of this year. The majority of the observed violations were in disposal of waste water from the factories although other environmental laws were being violated as well. Seven of the 27 factories did not have an environmental permit to function. Some factories minimally process their waste water before dumping it into Lake Managua or into a nearby river, but others do not.
   
   Campos said "We consider that there is a complacent attitude on the part of the Environment Ministry in terms of enforcing the country's laws." He stated that as a result of the entering into effect of the DR-CAFTA free trade agreement more factories are being built without environmental regulations. He added, "We at the Humboldt Center believe that the investments in the maquilas are important but we believe that it must be responsible investment; we're not asking more than that they comply with the laws against environmental crimes."