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Miners closed route to Brazil in rejecting relocation plan
Friday May 2, 2008
5:09 PM |
Friday May 2, 2008
5:09 PM |
Miners Venezuelans remain closed the road to Brazil in the outskirts of Santa Elena de Uairén, rejecting a government plan to evict 5,000 of them in the area.
The government of President Hugo Chávez "aims to draw more than 5,000 small mining sector Las Cristinas," the state of Bolivar, "and when they meet today 24 hours of onset of the blockade came two army convoy that supposedly will deal" to dislodge, said the rise since the leader Abelardo Diaz.
The chairman of the Federation of cooperation and partnership of Gold and Diamond Miners Bolivar said in statements to the telephone caraqueña station Globovision that the blockade was eventually complement this weekend with "an initial strike for 24 hours", involving other municipalities.
Workers' Trade St. Helena de Uairén Secunda confirmed that the possible strike, said Diaz and revealed that the People's Power Minister for Basic Industries and Mining, Rodolfo Sanz, they confirmed twice in recent weeks to be carried out their work elsewhere in the country.
To that end has offered other areas, but in them "there are no schools, hospitals, there is nothing," added Diaz.
"It is worrying situation, because they think evict all the miners at the upper Caroní River Basin", which "virtually disappears population mining" of Bolivar, he insisted.
He acknowledged that recently the minister managed to neutralize "the threat" that weighed on the miners at a mine in the area "to dislodge with C-4 (plastic explosives), as are accustomed to doing", allegedly the military.
The accused, however, be "playing to wear miners' and therefore has not attended two meetings he convened last week to explain his plan and listening to opinions.
"We are hoping the presence of the minister who supposedly will come tomorrow, Saturday; if you do not, we will immediately stuck entire population of St. Helena de Uairén," Diaz said.
In the area of Las Cristinas is one of the largest gold deposits in South America which are estimated clearance Sanz, contains some 323 million tons of gold.
According to press versions of the caraqueña broadcast this week, the Ministry of Environment of Venezuela refused this month to Canadian miner Crystallex permission to start the operation of the mine, citing "sensitive matters in relation to indigenous peoples, small miners and the environment environment. "
A communiqué of the Canadian company, headquartered in Toronto, and caraqueño quoted by the newspaper El Universal noted that the Venezuelan government "appears to disagree with any mining in the region."
Crystallex won the concession to operate the mine in 2002 and was awaiting environmental permits to start executing their tasks. Chain Global / EFE
The government of President Hugo Chávez "aims to draw more than 5,000 small mining sector Las Cristinas," the state of Bolivar, "and when they meet today 24 hours of onset of the blockade came two army convoy that supposedly will deal" to dislodge, said the rise since the leader Abelardo Diaz.
The chairman of the Federation of cooperation and partnership of Gold and Diamond Miners Bolivar said in statements to the telephone caraqueña station Globovision that the blockade was eventually complement this weekend with "an initial strike for 24 hours", involving other municipalities.
Workers' Trade St. Helena de Uairén Secunda confirmed that the possible strike, said Diaz and revealed that the People's Power Minister for Basic Industries and Mining, Rodolfo Sanz, they confirmed twice in recent weeks to be carried out their work elsewhere in the country.
To that end has offered other areas, but in them "there are no schools, hospitals, there is nothing," added Diaz.
"It is worrying situation, because they think evict all the miners at the upper Caroní River Basin", which "virtually disappears population mining" of Bolivar, he insisted.
He acknowledged that recently the minister managed to neutralize "the threat" that weighed on the miners at a mine in the area "to dislodge with C-4 (plastic explosives), as are accustomed to doing", allegedly the military.
The accused, however, be "playing to wear miners' and therefore has not attended two meetings he convened last week to explain his plan and listening to opinions.
"We are hoping the presence of the minister who supposedly will come tomorrow, Saturday; if you do not, we will immediately stuck entire population of St. Helena de Uairén," Diaz said.
In the area of Las Cristinas is one of the largest gold deposits in South America which are estimated clearance Sanz, contains some 323 million tons of gold.
According to press versions of the caraqueña broadcast this week, the Ministry of Environment of Venezuela refused this month to Canadian miner Crystallex permission to start the operation of the mine, citing "sensitive matters in relation to indigenous peoples, small miners and the environment environment. "
A communiqué of the Canadian company, headquartered in Toronto, and caraqueño quoted by the newspaper El Universal noted that the Venezuelan government "appears to disagree with any mining in the region."
Crystallex won the concession to operate the mine in 2002 and was awaiting environmental permits to start executing their tasks. Chain Global / EFE
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