These are extracts from the Caroni news.

It shows clearly that the problem is turning political.

As i wrote before Chavez needs to address this discontent to get their vote.

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Miners are protesting again in Mibam
Thursday, 09 October 2008
The miners decided to take Paragua, this Wednesday, the headquarters of the Ministry of Basic Industries and Mining in Ciudad Bolivar, in order to demand payment for the humanitarian aid that were promised and that so far they have not arrived.

Carolina Mafia
Photo Armando Rivas

The leader said that mining is the payment for more than four thousand miners, recalling that is a few days of the election and their votes also are worth.

"We are also human beings"

Eunice Bolivar, who along with the rest of the miners hoped the cancellation of such government assistance, he said that this is not a charity and expect to continue to be subjected to harassment, humiliation and ridicule, but to claim a right of which there are responsible. "We need to see the consequences of having brought to the miners at the mine, where we can not enter because we are going to get as criminals, we are going to remove the head, they will kill us."

He expressed the unease of the population of miners who says, have been treated in the worst way by those with power, while adding that the mines are not exclusive properties of the government, recalling that they are areas that belong to all Venezuelans .

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