Member of the National Assembly met with miners
Written by Paul Thomas Rodriguez
Friday, 08 February 2008

 
  Ciudad Bolivar .- The deputy to the National Assembly, Pastora Medina, yesterday met Thursday with a group of miners who were not benefiting from the restructuring of the mining programme implemented by the national government. The assembly was held in the parking lot of the park where Leonardo Ruiz Pineda and present a significant group of those workers in the informal mining.
She explained that although not integrates the Committee on Energy and Mines, last week requested a right to speak, to address the issue and submit a sample of approximately 400 tickes they had been handed over by the workers at that time raised the need to be reviewed with the speed that the case warrants, together with the national government the problem of conversion mining, because it has not had a happy ending because the program has not been fully complied with, because many are awaiting the resources to move forward with productive projects they own.

Medina noted that the members of the committee had noted with great concern and unanimously to convene the ministries involved, because the decree on the conversion mine had expired, since it was July 26, 2006 to 27 in the same month of 2007, but nevertheless conflicts and problems continue, now with the onslaught of the theatre of operations and number five is aware that it is protecting the rivers of Bolivar state, but it believed that military strength has been very aggressive with the people who are in those places.

The parliament pointed out that through communication to the Minister of Environment you will know about this problem, anexánoles the tickes that have not been cancelled, and also has been raised, but not directly to the minister Mibam but it was his assistants, and as the new director of Mining Affairs, who asked him to see if 12 on Tuesday, it could hold a meeting with a representation of miners, to see if they really could close the remaining phases of the conversion of mining.

It meant that yesterday's meeting was to hear the miners, where he was invited deputy Angel Marcano, vice president of the committee of Energy and Mines, to collect information and the time that mining could be a representation in the capital of the Republic of ten in the morning on Mibam a meeting with the director of Mining Affairs and she as deputy for the state of Bolivar accompanies.

On the new issue that is being presented to the miners Chiguao the sector, the lawmaker stressed that the military should not act so drastically in that area, it still has not been agreed to organize really productive mining areas.

We want to be heard in Mibam

For his part Fernando Rodriguez Monroy, social fighter miner, expressed discomfort because he was not given a right to speak in the National Assembly, to raise demand and response to the grave situation in which people are undergoing a vast mining, who is not it has complied with what they were offered in the conversion progarama mining.