{"id":5021,"date":"2016-01-16T15:43:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T15:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.minerasancristobal.com\/v3\/en\/?p=5021"},"modified":"2016-10-21T16:11:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T16:11:39","slug":"baptista-presento-su-libro-sobre-san-cristobal-en-presencia-de-comunarios-de-esa-poblacion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minerasancristobal.com\/v3\/en\/2016\/01\/16\/baptista-presento-su-libro-sobre-san-cristobal-en-presencia-de-comunarios-de-esa-poblacion\/","title":{"rendered":"Baptista presented his book about San Cristo\u0301bal in the presence of community inhabitants."},"content":{"rendered":"
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San Crist\u00f3bal is the third largest open-pit silver mine of the world and the fifth largest zinc mine, besides being the largest mining project developed in Bolivia since Sim\u00f3n Pati\u00f1o at the beginning of the 20th century.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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La Paz, January 16 (ANF).-<\/strong><\/p>\n

With the presence of community members from San Crist\u00f3bal and a large audience, journalist, historian and essay writer Mariano Baptista presented his most recent book entitled \u201cSan Crist\u00f3bal: an unparalleled mine in Bolivia\u2019s history\u201d.<\/p>\n

San Crist\u00f3bal is the third largest open-pit silver mine of the world and the fifth largest zinc mine, besides being the largest mining project developed in Bolivia since Sim\u00f3n Pati\u00f1o at the beginning of the 20th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n

The book outlines how the San Crist\u00f3bal mine was discovered, how it managed to secure the necessary investment and how, finally, the town and the church had to be relocated to a place 13 kilometers away. It was presented on Friday night in a hotel in the residential south area of La Paz.<\/p>\n

San Crist\u00f3bal is an open-pit silver mine located in Potos\u00ed, at 90 kilometers from the town of Uyuni. At present, it is administered by Sumitomo, a Japanese mining company. Most of the deposit is located where the local church used to be.<\/p>\n

Alberto Colque also spoke during the presentation. He is a community member and the person who gave the idea for the book in a casual conversation he had with Baptista and Raul Pe\u00f1aranda, journalist of P\u00e1gina Siete and ANF.<\/p>\n

Narrating his family\u2019s story and history, Colque referred to the key moments of the history of San Crist\u00f3bal, local traditions and the importance of the indigenous beliefs. He also said that the leaders do not regret having reached an agreement to facilitate the mining operation which has generated 1,500 well-paid direct jobs subject to strict labor safety measures. Another 4,000 people depend indirectly on the mining operation.<\/p>\n

Colque said that the activities of San Crist\u00f3bal have produced benefits for the three parties involved: the State, thanks to the collection of taxes and royalties; the community, thanks to the creation of many sources of decent employment; and the company, which has obtained considerable profits.<\/p>\n

Journalist Pe\u00f1aranda highlighted parts of the biography of Baptista, saying that it was an \u201chonor\u201d to be invited to present the book. He explained that the text has \u201cjournalistic features\u201d since it includes descriptions, interviews, chronicles and other genres and features of journalism.<\/p>\n

Pe\u00f1aranda read a couple of paragraphs of the book, particularly the ones with anecdotes, which he called \u201cinteresting and giving a flavor\u201d of the complex process to secure resources for the mining company to take off in the 1990s, followed by the relocation of the town and the church that had to be disassembled and then reassembled.<\/p>\n

Finally, Baptista talked about the importance of the participation of the community members of San Crist\u00f3bal for writing the book. He mentioned that he conducted around 40 interviews and that he visited the area a couple of times to write the book.<\/p>\n

Baptista said that of all the people he interviewed, he gave more importance and space to three of them:\u00a0 Jhonny Delgado, the engineer who played a fundamental role in securing the investment for this endeavor;\u00a0 Tom Kaplan, a historian who obtained the resources (initial investment of 500 million dollars); and Alberto Colque, as the community representative.<\/p>\n

The book includes a history of Bolivian mining and 20th<\/sup>-century politics in the country, as well as an explanation of the cultural characteristics of the indigenous people living in the L\u00edpez provinces in Potos\u00ed, where San Crist\u00f3bal is located. The central part of the text is a detailed and interesting overview of how the capital inflow was negotiated and how the town was relocated.<\/p>\n

In an especially touching moment of the ceremony, Baptista asked the dozen of community members present in the book presentation to stand up and accept the audience\u2019s applause.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

San Crist\u00f3bal is the third largest open-pit silver mine of the world and the fifth largest zinc mine, besides being the largest mining project developed in Bolivia since Sim\u00f3n Pati\u00f1o at the beginning of the 20th century. Agencia de Noticias Fides 01.16.2016   La Paz, January 16 (ANF).- With the presence of community members from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minerasancristobal.com\/v3\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minerasancristobal.com\/v3\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minerasancristobal.com\/v3\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minerasancristobal.com\/v3\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minerasancristobal.com\/v3\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5021"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.minerasancristobal.com\/v3\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5230,"href":"https:\/\/www.minerasancristobal.com\/v3\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021\/revisions\/5230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minerasancristobal.com\/v3\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minerasancristobal.com\/v3\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minerasancristobal.com\/v3\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}