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Mtg - Sanz and Small Miners - Issues

posted on Apr 19, 2008 07:42AM
Ciudad Guayana Saturday, April 19, 2008

"I am loyal to President Chavez and the people"

He Rodolfo Sanz, owner of Mibam, in his meeting with a group of small-scale miners and company representatives gold to address the problems of the sector.

Isidro Casanova Isidro Casanova

El Callao . Callao. Rodolfo Sanz, Minister for Basic Industries and Mining Mibam-met-called small miners and some gold companies in the municipalities of the South to settle new problems which have arisen, especially for lack of a common course of action between the State organs, dealers and small-scale mining.

Nearly a thousand small-scale miners were concentrated in the San Luis club of this population. Some focused on two blocks from the club and waited with the minister who walked to the terrace of the club where there was initially a briefing by the minister and then right to speak.

The visit of the minister had to do with information released by the press according to which, had felt that the negotiation of PMG and the Group Agapov, suffered from irregularities, noting that it was necessary to revise the system of gold concessions. On one side, workers, nearly 200 of the Group Agapov, launched street protests, defending the aforementioned group Agapov and at the same time defending their jobs. Statements against the position of minister assumed the labor leaders and small businesses that hire to the same group of Russian capital.

I come from the bottom and I am loyal

In San Luis club of Callao was no concentration. Voices of the minister alive and rejections of transnational brotaron everywhere.

-- Preferred - said the minister Sanz-assembly to do this so that we can understand each other. Tomorrow I will be in El Manteco and Tuesday in Santa Elena de Uairén. Mibam is a ministry complex. It is related to iron, aluminum and even wood. All these sectors have problems. About the problems that I encountered, I spoke with the president of the Republic, Hugo Chavez. He told me to come and review everything. He told me at any time making a decision for a realignment. That redevelopment will be at any time. The people with whom I have been meeting them I said: the past, past. If we continue to cling to what has gone, the problems may not be solved. It is important to rethink the problems. Many of you asked me what I say guarantees, and it is right to think so because there is a lot of mistrust by deception, but we have to believe in somebody.

The minister extolled during his presentation, poetic aspects with the reality of the small-scale mining. He said that the problems of people known to him because I come from below. From an early age I had to confront. I still confronting. I like confrontation "Here the minister introduced a review of the movie where the vampire is passed from animal alive. He said that many people will come to say they are doing bad business with aluminum of state enterprises, but are so many complaints that do not know for sure which event.

During his presentation, the minister not fixed any pattern since said that he preferred to wait that each of the miners' representatives present their problems to finally make some decisions, but felt it necessary to hear all sides.

Interventions

It is worth mention that the minister intends Sanz during tonight to meet with other factors of gold mining. It will meet with leaders and entrepreneurs mining of gold. You must know the problems from various angles

Following the statement by the minister Sanz, there was a right to speak, initiation miners who say they are evicted Coacia sector and Pisolita. The first speakers launched a barrage of criticism against transnational companies, accusing them of having evicted from their mines and not give them any compensation enough. Among the criticisms of the companies included CVG Minerven, citing that the commander Rotondaron who presided over the company until recently "stopped all become a disaster." They express that they can not blame the president now licensed market "because he has little time in the presidency."

Do not defraudaré

The minister, amid applause, confirmed that the miners have a friend. They repeated that forget things have offered and they have not complied, meaning that someone needs to believe. He who comes from the bottom and knows how they suffer in marginality, and that begins to learn about the struggles of the miners.

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