Miners were again manifest in Heres
Saturday, September 20, 2008

The second commander of the police state of Bolivar, Miguel Geronimo War, was apersonó at the scene of the protest in order to negotiate with the group.

Jean Franco Medori G.
Photo Armando Rivas


The demonstrators said they will continue with protest actions until we give them an answer on payment owed to them

For the second consecutive day, the miners of the municipality Raúl Leoni crossbar that connects the vial Libertador Avenue and the Paseo Simón Bolívar, the capital, to protest the money owed to them by the national government for 2 years, for Conversion of mining.

The more than 500 protesters still demanding the head of the Ministry of Basic Industries and Mining (Mibam), Rodolfo Sanz, to get answers with respect to payments that were offered to abandon its mining activities.

Alfredo Villanueva said that during the night of Thursday, was presented at the scene of the protest committee of Mibam, headed by Rodolfo Vilchez, director general of mining concessions, but did not bring the response that over 10 thousand miners displaced by the conversion waiting .

"What we want is the immediate payment of money owed to us, pensions, housing, jobs and credits that we were promised by abandoning our work, and we are tired of deception," said Villanueva.

The president will pay
The spokesman said the miners concerned that the commission arrived to mediate with them brought a unique solution: "we should hope that the president of the Republic (Hugo Chávez) will travel in the coming days, because he wants to personally deliver the payment But we can not allow this, because how we tell our children to endure hunger until the president travel. "

"We are talking to a lot of revolution, but we do not see the revolution anywhere, so we are asking us to pay the compensation promised to us by leave of mines, of which we do not go out of their own volition, but on the appeal made President Hugo Chávez and the aggressions to which we were subjected by the Theater of Operations No. 5 (TO-5), "he recalled.

On the other hand, continued to appeal to the president to make act of presence in the state of Bolivar, to listen to the people who elected him because you are cheating in Bolivar that everything is fine when there is hunger and misery.

At the foot of struggle
Villanueva said that they will continue with protest actions until the minister Sanz or the President of the Republic, give them an answer on payment owed to them, as they say they are tired of "lies" and therefore require you to look for a immediate solution to the problem.

"For now"

During the afternoon of Friday, the second police commander of the Bolivar state, commissioner Miguel Geronimo War, was apersonó at the scene of the demonstration, in order to persuade the group of miners to lift the protest, petition who accepted a peaceful, but clarified that they do not have the answers on Monday that they expect to close the road again.

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