Miners still demanding payment of humanitarian aid
Friday, 08 2008
Pastora Medina disagreed with the actions of TO5. "You can not act in a manner so drastic, but the area has been organized productively to make the change."


Miners were concentrated in the Park Leonardo Ruiz Pineda. Photo Armando Rivas payments of humanitarian aid within the conversion mining claims remain more than 10 thousand workers in the small-scale mining in Bolivar state.

  In the morning hours of Thursday, hundreds of miners were concentrated in the Park Leonardo Ruiz Pineda, in a meeting with the deputy to the National Assembly, Pastora Medina, presented a paper content of their demands and approaches.

  On behalf of the miners, Fernando Rodriguez Monroy stressed that it is claiming the right thing. He asked the president of the Republic, Hugo Chavez, allowing meet with the mining sector, affected by a situation that obviously does not even have been given answers.

  For his part, Alfredo Villanueva, a miner, said that would raise the document to the Subcommittee of Mines of the National Assembly, where between points, noted the problems with a social character, lack of housing schemes, pensions through the IVSS.

  Villanueva became a spokesman for the panic and anguish of miners The Chiguao compared to the presence of the Theater of Operations Number 5 (TO5).

  Elbia de Bermudez sent a message to the first national representative "with the respect it deserves", meaning that the needs continue to suffer the mining town.

  Bermudez dismissed the adjectives of "environmental criminals" as they were intended to point out, limiting that for many years mining has been worked that way, "possibly due to ignorance of our ancestors", but by no means should be considered animals and slag of a society. This woman expressed her anguish and all the miners, who claim that they only shop hand.

  According to the parliament has already been submitted a report to the Committee on Mines and Subcommittee of the AN on this problem. Around The sector Chiguao the parliamentary noted that "no one can act in a manner so drastic, but the area has been organized productively to make the change."

  The parliamentary acotó to agree that protect environmental areas, in terms of mining without control, but "may not be acting so aggressively, burn teams, without giving an answer alternates." He clarified that he is not eligible for any public office, but "I am worried about this situation, because one can not be insensitive to a reality that is there."