Miners rose protest in El Callao
Sunday, December 14, 2008

Natalie Garcia
Picture William Urdaneta

The demonstration on Friday ended with the promise of new jobs
The miners evicted from Quassia, in the municipality of ElCallao, who lifted the crossbar maintained since last Friday morning atthe entrance and exit of the village south of Bolivar state.

According recounted Jose Padron, one of the demonstrators, in theearly morning hours of an armored who was detained in the village spentthe barrier made by them, causing a few other injured. Given thissituation, many decided to abandon the protest to avoid the use ofviolence.

In addition to this the mayor of the militant United SocialistParty of Venezuela (PSUV), Orlenia Scipio, newly elected last November23 was introduced early this Saturday at the demonstration and promisedto get jobs to some of the protesters.

Shortly after the town was unleashed a series of comments thatprompted the invasion of a private mining concession located in thepath The Choco, who allegedly is within the premises of the miningconcession of a group of companies in the Russian Agapov.

Padron said that the mayor Scipio told the miners that were goingto have his support if an organization was trying to take advantage ofthe new deposit. "

More problems
In this regard Padron added that "this is impossible, how thiswoman goes to pledge aid to about six hundred miners if it has not yetbeen able to fix the problem of the Mayor, this is insane and the worstthing is that tomorrow the government will fall to evict the miners,that is going to put ugly because the ground is within PMG (PromotoraMinera Guayana). "

On the other hand "the Chinese" Figueroa, leader miner, said thatin the early morning hours of this Saturday approximately minerssupporters of the mayor's PSUV clashed with Quassia miners, who aredemanding a fair payment for the eviction of the land working, whichwere given in concession to the group Agapov.

Amid this situation that an operator of another reservoiraporreado left, but apparently with minor injuries. Despite that thesituation is tense and unlike the miners at La Paragua, Raúl Leonimunicipality, these people do not want to mine redeploying as theauthorities intend to do, quite the contrary seek compensation forbeing evicted from their places of work by years gave sustenance totheir children.

Unofficially, it was learned that about four hundred miners were stuck in El Choco IV.

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