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The magistrates of the Constitutional Chamber have granted three working days to the Ministries of Environment and Health to inform them of the actions carried out in recent months in Crucitas de Cutris de San Carlos, with the aim of containing the current ecological disaster caused by the illegal mining.

According to the Federation for the Conservation of Nature (FECON), Chamber IV notified the heads of the two ministries last Friday, after partially accepting another appeal filed by the lawyer, Alvaro Sagot, and the Federation as an adjunct .

For the plaintiffs, to date, there is no evidence that there are responses from environmental and public health authorities to contain the destruction caused by gold mining outside the law.

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According to reports, the magistrates of the highest constitutional court have demanded explanations on the actions taken to measure the extent of environmental damage, mercury levels in water, soil and sediments.

In addition, the details of the actions carried out in terms of landscape mitigation and restoration.

It must be remembered that, Last year, the Constitutional Chamber ordered the government to prepare a timetable with the necessary security measures, this would contain illegal mining and stop the disaster that is perceived today.

The executive power has until next Thursday to present this information to Chamber IV, failing which the administration of Rodrigo Chaves would be at the gates of “the opening of an administrative procedure”.

In addition to damage to nature, the impact of the activity of coligalleros or artisanal miners is worrying in terms of public health, due to mercury contamination of surface water.

The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies mercury as a highly toxic substance. and, in the context of illegal mining at Crucitas de Cutris, this poses a danger to miners, their families and neighboring communities.

The current situation in Crucitas arose after the Canadian company Infinito Gold left our country, after the Contentious-Administrative Court canceled the concession granted by the government of Oscar Arias.

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