The failed to fulfill promises of the national Government threw like result a confrontation of town against town, because this Wednesday in the morning the pedlars decided to evacuate the miners whom already they have more than 15 days of protest in the Orinoco Stroll by his vindications. The commercial zone of City Bolivar became everything a battlefield during the morning and behind schedule, that took to the Police of the state Bolivar to take part and to disperse with tear pumps the skirmish enters groups both.

Carolina Maffia
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The uniformed ones dispersed the revolt in the commercial zone

The situation triggered one trifulca that finished with the evacuation of the ex- workers of the mining of its place of “protest”, and the massive presence of uniformed of the PEB in that zone.

Colonel Julio Manzulli Sources, commander of the Police of the state, explained that the confrontation took to use action to reestablish the public order.

With the government
The salesmen indicated their displeasure before the presence of the miners, arguing who have generated in the sales and little affluence of buyers in the sector low commerce.

“Evacuated We them of here with the aid of the police, because if its problem is with the Interior, with the national Government, who are going to solve it with them”, Eudy Guzmán lashed severely.

It added that the commerce is not guilty of the debt that maintains with the miners the national Government. “We only want that they let to us work calm”, it said.

Lourdes Grove and Yusmerys Castro, the informal commerce, as much assured that “we decontaminated this zone of all that dirt and that drove away to the buyers, leaving losses to the formal commerce as informal”.

The informal salesmen made the observation of which they respect the mining protest and reclamations, but could not allow that he followed in that zone “generating centers of sweepings and until contamination, then, many of those people defecated in the middle of the street, even though exist chemical baths”.

Miners to Caracas
Gloria Vargas, miner, rejected the undergone attack and indicated that only their rights protest before a “Government who humiliates to us and deceives of the worse way”.

They asked “to the minister Rodolfo Sanz and Rodolfo Vílchez who give the face, because they committed themselves to pay to the four the thousands rest of and some of miners who we were by outside. To them they gave 60 millardos them of bolivars to pay to us and, now, where they are those real ones, they did what them”, affirmed.

Orlando Heredia, also miner, emphasized that they will continue protesting, because it is a commitment acquired by the Government towards those who their offices in the mining left.

On the other hand, Alfredo Villanueva, mining spokesman, in front of the Palace of Government repudió the confrontation and informed that same night would be traveling a commission from 150 miners to Caracas to raise before the National Assembly, through the commission of mines that the deputy presides over Marcano Angel, and to denounce the problem.

“We want to know where they are the resources that an approved the 11 of November and why reason minister Sanz cancelled only thousand 200 miners and 4 to him thousands 800 not”, it said.

It described as “vagabundería” the attitude of the holder of Mibam and Mirna Muñoz, coordinator of Mission To cheep, by a process where until the original data one has become lost, when of 100 miners 80 they have been by outside.

Without activity

The activity of the formal commerce and informal east Wednesday stayed suspended due to the confrontations. No established premises abrió, nor the salesmen settled as it is custom.

Juan Zakur, president of the Chamber of Commerce of City Bolivar, assured that they stayed “worried and alarmed” by the happened thing well, referring who this situation has become chronicle during the three last weeks that take the miners in center.

He affirmed that the premises of downtown dawned closed, threaten meaning them that they took place to early hours when some people striking santamarías shouted sackings. “All the Orinoco Stroll, Venezuela street and adyacencias are closed, by all means, this mean numerous losses in the retailers who we want to give goods and services to the group of this city”, it said.

He reiterated his call to Mibam to resolve this problem, and to the Police to reestablish La Paz in that part of Heres, that allows the collective visits the Orinoco Stroll