Carlos Pellas Chamorro is directly involved in just about everything in Nicaragua but politics, a choice he says that has helped his family thrive for over a century. Pellas is the controlling shareholder of Grupo Pellas, a conglomerate involved in banking, sugar, rum, ethanol, media, insurance, citrus, health care, auto dealerships and high-end tourism that employs 25,000 people.
http://www.forbes.com/2009/10/20/grupo-pellas-nicaragua-business-chamorro.html
miércoles, 21 de octubre de 2009
lunes, 12 de octubre de 2009
Boycott against Grupo Pellas: UITA calls dialogue, Nicaragua Sugar dialogues
Gerardo Iglesias, secretary of the Latin American regional office of the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (UITA), recently called to a dialogue between the Nicaraguan Association of Persons Affected by Chronic Kidney Failure (ANAIRC) and Nicaragua Sugar Estates Limited during his recent visit to Nicaragua.
In relation to this call, we must highlight that Nicaragua Sugar, a company that belongs to Grupo Pellas, in keeping with its vocation of dialogue with the community, has been maintaining a fluid dialogue over the past few months with the Chichigalpa Association for life (ASOCHIVIDA), the most important organization representing CKF patients in Nicaragua’s west region.
In contrast with ANAIRC’s proposals, which only seek to obtain unjustified monetary compensation from NSEL, ASOCHIVIDA, in its dialogue with NSEL, instead of proposing a boycott against Grupo Pellas has approached the company to ask that it contribute to the solution of this health problem that is affecting the population in the west.
ASOCHIVIDA’s attitude is notable, with whom NSEL has jointly agreed to define the criteria for conducting a study that identifies the causes of CKF in Nicaragua. It has also been agreed, without any legal obligation other than the good will of the parties, that NSEL will provide humanitarian aid to alleviate the situation of CKF patients and their families, which is something the company has been doing within its social responsibility policies.
Ariel Granera, the Corporate Communications Director of Grupo Pellas, has emphasized that Nicaragua Sugar and Compañía Licorera have always been open to constructive dialogue concerning the problems affecting the community, but he also warned that a dialogue cannot be established with the persons that are purportedly represented by ANAIRC under the premise that the company is guilty and therefore is obligated to pay compensation.
The problem of the dialogue with ANAIRC is that this organization wants to unlawfully profit from a company that fully complies with all environmental and occupational safety standards required by the country’s laws and has verily shown that it is faithful to its social responsibility policies.
For the purpose of making known the truth about these issues, Nicaragua Sugar created a website titled “Nicaragua Sugar Estates Limited and Chronic Kidney Failure”. The address is www.laverdadnsel.com.
The official website of Nicaragua Sugar also contains abundant information about the company´s productive and social responsibility practices. The address is www.nicaraguasugar.com.
Other links of interest:
http://boicotgrupopellas.wordpress.com/
http://grupopellas.wordpress.com
http://nicaraguasugarirc.wordpress.com/
http://carlospellasirc.wordpress.com/
http://laverdadchichigalpa.wordpress.com
http://boicotflordecana.wordpress.com/
http://boicotgrupopellas.blogspot.com/
http://www.youtube.com/grupopellas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flor_de_Caña
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Pellas_Chamorro
In relation to this call, we must highlight that Nicaragua Sugar, a company that belongs to Grupo Pellas, in keeping with its vocation of dialogue with the community, has been maintaining a fluid dialogue over the past few months with the Chichigalpa Association for life (ASOCHIVIDA), the most important organization representing CKF patients in Nicaragua’s west region.
In contrast with ANAIRC’s proposals, which only seek to obtain unjustified monetary compensation from NSEL, ASOCHIVIDA, in its dialogue with NSEL, instead of proposing a boycott against Grupo Pellas has approached the company to ask that it contribute to the solution of this health problem that is affecting the population in the west.
ASOCHIVIDA’s attitude is notable, with whom NSEL has jointly agreed to define the criteria for conducting a study that identifies the causes of CKF in Nicaragua. It has also been agreed, without any legal obligation other than the good will of the parties, that NSEL will provide humanitarian aid to alleviate the situation of CKF patients and their families, which is something the company has been doing within its social responsibility policies.
Ariel Granera, the Corporate Communications Director of Grupo Pellas, has emphasized that Nicaragua Sugar and Compañía Licorera have always been open to constructive dialogue concerning the problems affecting the community, but he also warned that a dialogue cannot be established with the persons that are purportedly represented by ANAIRC under the premise that the company is guilty and therefore is obligated to pay compensation.
The problem of the dialogue with ANAIRC is that this organization wants to unlawfully profit from a company that fully complies with all environmental and occupational safety standards required by the country’s laws and has verily shown that it is faithful to its social responsibility policies.
For the purpose of making known the truth about these issues, Nicaragua Sugar created a website titled “Nicaragua Sugar Estates Limited and Chronic Kidney Failure”. The address is www.laverdadnsel.com.
The official website of Nicaragua Sugar also contains abundant information about the company´s productive and social responsibility practices. The address is www.nicaraguasugar.com.
Other links of interest:
http://boicotgrupopellas.wordpress.com/
http://grupopellas.wordpress.com
http://nicaraguasugarirc.wordpress.com/
http://carlospellasirc.wordpress.com/
http://laverdadchichigalpa.wordpress.com
http://boicotflordecana.wordpress.com/
http://boicotgrupopellas.blogspot.com/
http://www.youtube.com/grupopellas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flor_de_Caña
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Pellas_Chamorro
Grupo Pellas: ANAIRC proposes to silence sensible voices of unions that reject Boycott to Flor de Caña
The Nicaraguan Association of Persons Affected by Chronic Kidney Failure (ANAIRC), in its unfounded campaign against Nicaragua Sugar Estates Limited that seeks to associate chronic kidney failure to the company’s economic activity, has publicly proposed to silence not only the company’s arguments, but also the sensible voices of the unions that have expressed through the pages of Indymedia and Bellaciao their rejection of the boycott against Flor de Caña and Grupo Pellas.
This proposal, redolent of a totalitarian mentality, evidences the despair of an organization that does not cease to lie, even inventing non-existent death figures that have not been confirmed by the country’s authorities and are not based on any serious study by any national institution.
To justify their unlawful enrichment claims through blackmail, which are affecting the labor stability of the workers more than the Grupo Pellas companies, ANAIRC has resorted to slander, putting at risk the well-being of thousands of families to whom NSEL and Compañía Licorera guarantee work, development for their communities and multiple benefits through the social responsibility policies promoted by these companies.
Faced by this unjustified attitude of ANAIRC, more than 2,000 workers of Ingenio San Antonio and Compañía Licorera de Nicaragua came to Managua on May 29 to express their support to these two companies.
At the front of the workers marched the main leaders of all the unions that exist in the Ingenio San Antonio and Compañía Licorera, as well as national leaders of trade union confederations: Roberto González, Sandinista Workers´ Confederation (CST), José Espinoza Navas, Confederation of Union Unification (CUS), and Carlos Martinez, Autonomous Confederation of Union Unification.
In the press releases issued by these organizations, they not only emphasize that the accusations against Nicaragua Sugar Estates Limited are completely unfounded, but also reject the doubts voiced against the role played by these unions in defense of the rights of the affiliated workers.
"We are surprised by the slanders uttered against freedom of association in the Ingenio and Licorera because, in case you don’t know, five unions exist in the Ingenio San Antonio that are duly constituted before the Ministry of Labor and we are all signatories of the current collective agreement, which stipulates the benefits that this company grants us workers, not as of this year, but ever since this company was founded in 1890", noted on its part the “Faustino Martinez” Ingenio San Antonio Workers Union. “Ingenio San Antonio is actually the economic lung through which our city breathes. From this sugar mill derive the great socioeconomic improvements that have been obtained, which is why we declare with much honor that the campaign launched by organizations like IUTA, ANAIR and the FLOR DE CAÑA rum boycott group is hasty because it seeks to leave aside the conquests achieved, putting at risk scholarships, professional technicians, food supplies, healthcare and, in a nutshell, progress in Chichigalpa", expressed the Ingenio San Antonio Democratic Workers’ Union.
The pro-Sandinista “Ronald Altamirano” Revolutionary Workers’ Union, also joined the unions’ rejection of this defamatory campaign against NSEL: "Gentlemen of IUTA and ANAIRC, before you make false accusations, we invite you to know more in depth about the social vindications we have achieved, such as a hospital for us workers and our family nucleus ―a unique experience in Latin America―, a school for our children, who later receive scholarships for university studies, and many other benefits embodied in our collective agreement", indicates the communiqué of the Ronald Altamirano Union.
For the purpose of making known the truth about these issues, Nicaragua Sugar created a website titled "Nicaragua Sugar Estates Limited and Chronic Kidney Failure". The address is www.laverdadnsel.com.
Further, the official website of Nicaragua Sugar contains abundant information about the company’s productive and social responsibility practices. The address is www.nicaraguasugar.com.
Other links of interest:
http://www.youtube.com/grupopellas
http://grupopellas.wordpress.com
http://nicaraguasugarirc.wordpress.com/
http://carlospellasirc.wordpress.com/
http://laverdadchichigalpa.wordpress.com
http://boicotflordecana.wordpress.com/
http://boicotgrupopellas.blogspot.com/
http://www.youtube.com/grupopellas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flor_de_Caña
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Pellas_Chamorro
This proposal, redolent of a totalitarian mentality, evidences the despair of an organization that does not cease to lie, even inventing non-existent death figures that have not been confirmed by the country’s authorities and are not based on any serious study by any national institution.
To justify their unlawful enrichment claims through blackmail, which are affecting the labor stability of the workers more than the Grupo Pellas companies, ANAIRC has resorted to slander, putting at risk the well-being of thousands of families to whom NSEL and Compañía Licorera guarantee work, development for their communities and multiple benefits through the social responsibility policies promoted by these companies.
Faced by this unjustified attitude of ANAIRC, more than 2,000 workers of Ingenio San Antonio and Compañía Licorera de Nicaragua came to Managua on May 29 to express their support to these two companies.
At the front of the workers marched the main leaders of all the unions that exist in the Ingenio San Antonio and Compañía Licorera, as well as national leaders of trade union confederations: Roberto González, Sandinista Workers´ Confederation (CST), José Espinoza Navas, Confederation of Union Unification (CUS), and Carlos Martinez, Autonomous Confederation of Union Unification.
In the press releases issued by these organizations, they not only emphasize that the accusations against Nicaragua Sugar Estates Limited are completely unfounded, but also reject the doubts voiced against the role played by these unions in defense of the rights of the affiliated workers.
"We are surprised by the slanders uttered against freedom of association in the Ingenio and Licorera because, in case you don’t know, five unions exist in the Ingenio San Antonio that are duly constituted before the Ministry of Labor and we are all signatories of the current collective agreement, which stipulates the benefits that this company grants us workers, not as of this year, but ever since this company was founded in 1890", noted on its part the “Faustino Martinez” Ingenio San Antonio Workers Union. “Ingenio San Antonio is actually the economic lung through which our city breathes. From this sugar mill derive the great socioeconomic improvements that have been obtained, which is why we declare with much honor that the campaign launched by organizations like IUTA, ANAIR and the FLOR DE CAÑA rum boycott group is hasty because it seeks to leave aside the conquests achieved, putting at risk scholarships, professional technicians, food supplies, healthcare and, in a nutshell, progress in Chichigalpa", expressed the Ingenio San Antonio Democratic Workers’ Union.
The pro-Sandinista “Ronald Altamirano” Revolutionary Workers’ Union, also joined the unions’ rejection of this defamatory campaign against NSEL: "Gentlemen of IUTA and ANAIRC, before you make false accusations, we invite you to know more in depth about the social vindications we have achieved, such as a hospital for us workers and our family nucleus ―a unique experience in Latin America―, a school for our children, who later receive scholarships for university studies, and many other benefits embodied in our collective agreement", indicates the communiqué of the Ronald Altamirano Union.
For the purpose of making known the truth about these issues, Nicaragua Sugar created a website titled "Nicaragua Sugar Estates Limited and Chronic Kidney Failure". The address is www.laverdadnsel.com.
Further, the official website of Nicaragua Sugar contains abundant information about the company’s productive and social responsibility practices. The address is www.nicaraguasugar.com.
Other links of interest:
http://www.youtube.com/grupopellas
http://grupopellas.wordpress.com
http://nicaraguasugarirc.wordpress.com/
http://carlospellasirc.wordpress.com/
http://laverdadchichigalpa.wordpress.com
http://boicotflordecana.wordpress.com/
http://boicotgrupopellas.blogspot.com/
http://www.youtube.com/grupopellas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flor_de_Caña
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Pellas_Chamorro
Boycott against Grupo Pellas: Nicaragua Sugar delivers humanitarian aid to CKD patients
As a result of the dialogue process that Nicaragua Sugar Estates Limited (owner of Ingenio San Antonio and part of the Pellas Group) has been holding for several months with the Association of Chichigalpa for Life (ASOCHIVIDA), the most important organization of CKD patients in the west of Nicaragua, the company, within its social responsibility policy framework, has begun to provide humanitarian aid to alleviate the situation of CKD patients and their families, without any legal obligation other than the goodwill that stimulates both parties.
Thus Nicaragua Sugar is currently granting a food subsidy to 1,800 CKD patients and recently made a first delivery of funds to the Chichigalpa Mayor's Office as part of an initiative to provide decent housing to the people afflicted by this disease.
Ezekiel Ramírez, President of ASOCHIVIDA, in recent statements to the media, highlighted the importance of the dialogue process between this association and Nicaragua Sugar in referring to the humanitarian aid they have received to date from the company.
The ASOCHIVIDA President also expressed the satisfaction felt by the affected people with the first results achieved through this dialogue: "They are very happy as help is beginning to reach the sick", he said. "We have an agreement signed with the company to resolve all these problems. A study will be conducted to determine the causes of CKD", he stated.
In contrast to the false statements made by the Nicaraguan Association of People Affected by Chronic Renal Failure (ANAIRC) that seeks to obtain unjustified monetary compensation from Nicaragua Sugar through a discrediting and disinformation campaign, ASOCHIVIDA, instead of proposing a boycott against the Pellas Group and Flor de Caña opted to dialogue with the company in order to jointly address this health issue that is affecting the population in the west. Today this dialogue is bearing fruit.
With the aim of making known the truth about these issues, Nicaragua Sugar has created a website called Nicaragua Sugar Estates Limited and Chronic Kidney Failure. The address is www.laverdadnsel.com. In addition, Nicaragua Sugar’s official website contains abundant information on the company’s productive and social responsibility practices. The address of this website is www.nicaraguasugar.com.
Other links of interest:
http://boicotgrupopellas.wordpress.com/
http://grupopellas.wordpress.com/
http://nicaraguasugarirc.wordpress.com/
http://carlospellasirc.wordpress.com/
http://laverdadchichigalpa.wordpress.com/
http://boicotflordecana.wordpress.com/
http://boicotgrupopellas.blogspot.com/
http://www.youtube.com/grupopellas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flor_de_Caña
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Pellas_Chamorro
Thus Nicaragua Sugar is currently granting a food subsidy to 1,800 CKD patients and recently made a first delivery of funds to the Chichigalpa Mayor's Office as part of an initiative to provide decent housing to the people afflicted by this disease.
Ezekiel Ramírez, President of ASOCHIVIDA, in recent statements to the media, highlighted the importance of the dialogue process between this association and Nicaragua Sugar in referring to the humanitarian aid they have received to date from the company.
The ASOCHIVIDA President also expressed the satisfaction felt by the affected people with the first results achieved through this dialogue: "They are very happy as help is beginning to reach the sick", he said. "We have an agreement signed with the company to resolve all these problems. A study will be conducted to determine the causes of CKD", he stated.
In contrast to the false statements made by the Nicaraguan Association of People Affected by Chronic Renal Failure (ANAIRC) that seeks to obtain unjustified monetary compensation from Nicaragua Sugar through a discrediting and disinformation campaign, ASOCHIVIDA, instead of proposing a boycott against the Pellas Group and Flor de Caña opted to dialogue with the company in order to jointly address this health issue that is affecting the population in the west. Today this dialogue is bearing fruit.
With the aim of making known the truth about these issues, Nicaragua Sugar has created a website called Nicaragua Sugar Estates Limited and Chronic Kidney Failure. The address is www.laverdadnsel.com. In addition, Nicaragua Sugar’s official website contains abundant information on the company’s productive and social responsibility practices. The address of this website is www.nicaraguasugar.com.
Other links of interest:
http://boicotgrupopellas.wordpress.com/
http://grupopellas.wordpress.com/
http://nicaraguasugarirc.wordpress.com/
http://carlospellasirc.wordpress.com/
http://laverdadchichigalpa.wordpress.com/
http://boicotflordecana.wordpress.com/
http://boicotgrupopellas.blogspot.com/
http://www.youtube.com/grupopellas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flor_de_Caña
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Pellas_Chamorro
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