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 Business News | April 2007 
Mexican Companies Conceal Accidents
 Prensa Latina
There are around 500,000 annual industrial accidents in Mexico, but the companies conceal 30 percent of them, a report published on Friday revealed.
Mexican Social Security (IMSS) data established at least 150,000 accidents that the country s entities do not report.
The current rate of 2.9 accidents per each 100 workers is almost 10 percent below the 1980 rate, because the real numbers are hidden, according to an IMSS official.
Victor Hugo Borja, industrial health coordinator of the institute, said nations with better working conditions keep that rate above 4 percent.
However, the Mexican companies do not report the accidents to avoid payments of between 0.5 and 15 percent of salaries.
Employers have different methods of evading their responsibilities, most commonly simply not reporting them.
Another way is to have doctors and surgical teams in the companies assist any minor emergency that does not require hospitalization.
Although the authorities are aware of these irregularities, they cannot apply sanctions, because the employers do not commit any crime, but administrative misdemeanors.
Nestor de Buena, an expert in the issue, told El Universal daily there is an inefficient verification system, not only due to the small number of inspectors, but also because they are bribed to conceal the irregularities.
Mexico Investors to Bulldoze Nature
Prensa Latina
Mexico - Construction plans of hotels, marinas, golf courses and highways in a nature reserve are causing irate protests in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo against those who try to build a "new Cancun."
The director of ecology of the municipality, Juan Calixto Gongora, denounced that the real estate developer Merida Century XXI acquired, by means of a 20 year contract, 42,996 acres of the Yum Balam ecological reserve, paying about 17 dollars per acre.
Gongora said that the agreement was reached in a fraudulent assembly held on August 6 at a ridiculous price, taking into account that the place will generate profits of millions.
Yum Balam has been a flora and fauna reserve area since June 6, 1994, and includes 38,054 acres.
The director also denounced that there is another company seeking a similar agreement to construct 12 artificial islands in the zone.
Experts consider that this is a maneuver of foreign investors to buy Mexican lands through fictitious societies with the country's businessmen. |
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