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Protest Vigil

posted on Aug 06, 2008 10:31AM

06 August 2008 | Reference: El Universal

Until Thursday, more than 3 thousand miners remain in Bolivar state vigil at the headquarters of the Ministry of Basic Industries and Mining in Ciudad Bolivar in a protest that began from Monday.

Claims for the failure of the authorities of commitments released Minera Retraining Program proposed by the Executive.

Alfredo Villanueva, Paragua The miner said that the mobilization was motivated by "many months of deception, so many months waiting for a response that the minister Rodolfo Sanz promised for about 20 days and have spent months and nothing," he said.

He assured that although the vice president of the Corporation Venezolana de Guayana tried to mediate with protestatarios, they want to talk with the owner of Mibam and CVG, Rodolfo Sanz.

This officer undertook telephone with the miners to set up a meeting on Thursday to sign a record stating that the minister took some commitments to us and we must meet them, "he said.

Ten miners of La Paragua and Ciudad Bolivar represent more than 10 thousand workers of mining in the meeting with Sanz.

They assured that if not satisfied with the meeting taking the Mibam in Ciudad Bolivar continue, "because we are tired of waiting."

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