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(Published in Strategy Journal, April 11, 2008)

difficult has been the outlook for salmon. Are dimmed and, through its president, Cesar Barros, are dedicated to injure not only those who have conducted a campaign to raise awareness of the negative impacts on environment and labor abuses that this industry rush, but also , whipping the New York Times, the newspaper American who recently became aware of the questions hanging over the industry. This led to one of the largest supermarket chains in the United States suspended imports of salmon from Chile. Immediately, on the Bolsa de Comercio de Santiago, the salmon companies lost between 4 and 5 percentage points in their prices.

attitude is not surprising Barros, his lineage is obscured arrogance to public criticism. But what is unacceptable is the attitude of state institutions. The Chilean ambassador to Washington, he hastened to write a letter to the newspaper stating that the note affects a highly profitable industry in Chile, Foreign Minister Foxley said national pride that represents the industry, Juan Gabriel Valdes, head of the country image, represented the government's desire to support the industry to avoid the damage to the Chamber of Deputies approved a draft agreement for the country to report on regulations and inspections is subject to the industry and the Minister Pérez Yoma, chief of staff announced a joint plan with industry to organize their rescue.

All he said the New York Times has long been documented. Marine Harvest, Norwegian salmon farming company operating in Chile, recognized the overuse of antibiotics and lack of regulation. However, senior government officials are quick to defend the industry as if it were the most sacred of national identity.

When such basic resources like water are severely damaged and labor rights violated by this industry, there is no authority that comes to his defense. If the salmon confuse their interests with those of the country beyond them, but when the State defends private capital as the country itself, not only is a shame unpresentable, but a demonstration of the serious crisis of representation that displays the country today and apparent lack of political democracy that is realistic and effective.

Marcel Claude, Executive Director Institute Politika.