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Now it starts:
Sorry for the very bad translation but that is google.
Lagos now called to testify.


Ask invalid agreement between Chile and Argentina signed by former President
Entrepreneur who sued Barrick Gold Pascua Lama by Ricardo Lagos asked to declare as a witness
by FELIPE LEIVA B. September 6, 2016
Entrepreneur who sued Barrick Gold Pascua Lama by Ricardo Lagos asked to declare as a witness
A Chilean-Canadian mining entrepreneur says the former head of state, which these days announced his intention to return to La Moneda politically validated the agreement between the two countries, he said, would be flawed. Ricardo Lagos could appear as a witness along with other former officials, including Minister of Foreign Affairs then, Soledad Alvear.

Since 2001 Lopehandia Jorge, a Chilean mining entrepreneur based in Canada, says that part of the land where the Pascua Lama project are summoned him. He led the claim that civilian courts and even today there is a current precautionary measure. Before waiting for this cause, based in the 14th Civil Court, decided to confront the mining project in parallel with other legal action since December last year, at the 23rd Civil Court , where expected to former officials of the Chilean government explain the authorization was given to Barrick Gold Corporation and its subsidiaries to carry out this project, which according to him would be tainted. Among the names are Ricardo Lagos Escobar, who asked Tuesday his inscrutable appearance as a witness.

According to the applicant, Lagos, when he was President, issued on August 18, 2004 a supreme decree on the protocol agreement between Chile and Argentina that would be flawed. In approving the project operated in Chile by the company Barrick Gold Corporation, through its subsidiary in Vallenar, green light was given to what Lopehandia considered a unconstitutionality and illegality, as 8,600 hectares of mining claims would not be the name of that Canadian company nor the Conservatives have degrees in Vallenar Mine. That is to say that the land on which the millionaire mining project, would rise legally would be on behalf of another person , unconnected with the project, so badly could compromise the mining rights, as has already been done.

The employer is clear that the land, which he says was his property, it may not return to its domain, but insists that it is not yet settled. That and being force such relief 2001, which prohibits agreements and contracts, the protocol agreement Pascua Lama, backed by Ricardo Lagos in 2004, would have decreed null.

"The executive branch can not ignore a decision taken by the judiciary, but is covered in a political way by Ricardo Lagos Escobar. The Canadian company has been able to settle mining titles and the Pascua Lama project on stock exchanges in the world, without having valid titles, "says his lawyer.

The Defence Council of State (CDE) counterpart in this case, lowers the profile to the demand and states that "this statement, but hypothetically if true, is not a defect of nullity, it is clear that the only purpose would be to specify belongings (not owners) as to places that make up the area concerned by the agreement ".

The CDE says Lopehandia has no real right regarding these mining properties, so it is not understood how such invalidity demand Pascua Lama protocol.

Tuesday was admitted the request for Ricardo Lagos is summoned as a witness. In addition to the former Head of State, who will be notified in the coming days, you are asked to appear Soledad Alvear, as former foreign minister of the time, who also signed the Memorandum of Understanding Pascua Lama.