Embarked miners of the Paragua
Friday, April 25, 2008
Hundreds of people were left "with crespos facts" after the minister suspended the call.

Natalie Garcia
Picture William Urdaneta


The meeting was postponed but the miners used to express their dissatisfaction.

Miners La Paragua, municipality Raúl Leoni, were outraged by the suspension of the meeting would take place with the owner of People's Power Ministry for Basic Industries and Mining ( Mibam), Rodolfo Sanz. According to the partners also president of the CVG heavy rains in Caracas avoided attend, something they described as unforgivable operators minerals more radical.

"How is it possible for a lluviecita has stopped the minister", said some miners, who called him exalted Alfredo Arcila, vice president of the CVG, for all the inconvenience caused. "Many come from afar, this is like a mockery, we are tired of the same thing, we need solutions, the mining town has suffered greatly and the only thing that gives it stick and stick, abuses and mistreat us," said one of these who did not want to be identified.

The event served in part to exchange views many of them, and although at certain times things are tense around the end prevailed its civility and conformism that has characterized. However, the majority explained that if there were no solutions soon take radical measures to achieve its objectives.

For its part Alfredo Arcila was commissioned to excuse the minister and indicated that it would be irresponsible to give an answer because whoever has the final word is Rodolfo Sanz. He further reported that the meeting on Thursday was postponed to this Friday at the same venue at 11:00 in the morning.

Faced with such words of encouragement were Calder and although representatives of Mibam did little to offer solutions, catered to miners who formed a kind of assembly to claim their rights, so often violated because they are illegal in certain mines.

Searching for answers

The miners of La Paragua expect that Friday really has a meeting and ask for explanations and answers to the minister that since the slaughter and conversion will be mining. "That was a conversion of corruption, we threw the misery, abandoned us, we want to know what will happen to us because we need an exit and not continue deceiving us as usual, many of us here come from afar, who We will recognize the cost, how long such mockery, "he said Alfredo Villanueva.