Tuesday, October 20, 2009 the view that the Attorney General's Office (PGR) has engaged in delay of justice by failing to investigate criminal complaints lodged paths for the cases of GM contamination and illegal genetically modified seeds that have occurred in our country, about 600 environmental organizations and human rights defenders enrolled a complaint American Commission Human Rights (IACHR) against the government of Mexico to allow planting of transgenic corn "for experimental purposes? in the state of Tamaulipas. The coordinator of Greenpeace's Sustainable Agriculture, Aleira Lara, said the report also reflects that the federal government gave the permits violated the Biosafety Law passed in 2005, so that a second criminal complaint filed in March 2009 that has not been addressed by the PGR. Galicia Lara added that in addition to the criminal complaint, are to be solved several habeas corpus filed by Greenpeace and farmers' organizations as the National Association of Field Marketing Enterprises against modifications Biosafety Act that removed the locks for the planting of GM maize in Spain. warned that such changes threaten the right to food of all Mexicans, as it is put in the hands of monopolies, the main seed production of human consumption such as corn, rice, soybeans, wheat and beans, as well as appeals shall be filed in the matter. He stressed that there is also a constitutional controversy raised by the town of Tepoztlan against these changes, it jumped to the Secretary of Agriculture, Francisco Javier Mayorga Castañeda, being connected to the industry agrolimentaria, like his predecessor, Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez. Finally, the representative of Greenpeace said it has documented at least two cases of federal officials, Sandra and Silvia Piña Rojas, who would be subject to a conflict of interest, having previously worked in industry
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