The miners feel that they have been flouted
Tuesday, 11 August 2009

Alfredo Villanueva, leader of the Bolivar State mining, reported that an individual known as "The Turkish Jhonny," conducts its operations with a company, damaging the ecosystem of the state of Bolivar.

Alfredo Villanueva, leader of the Bolivar State mining, said yesterday morning that as "a mockery" of the Minister of Basic Industries and Mining (Mibam) Sanz, who still remain some companies operating in the mining areas of the Caura watershed, the which had to be displaced after the claim process promoted by the national executive.

Villanueva, known among the miners with the distinctive "Morrocoy" said that an individual known as "The Turkish Jhonny" operations normally done with a large mining company, damaging the ecosystem in that part of the state before the eyes of the complacent Minister Sanz.

Accomplices

"We presume that there is total complicity between Turkish officials and Jhonny Mibam Piar and missions and it is evident that are dividing the profits of mining that damages other natural resources existing there," he said.

"For us," said is a joke that this gentleman remains Chiguao the area, whereas small-scale miners is violently pulled out of all those affected by land-claim-this is an affront to our dignity. "

In that vein, called on national and regional bodies with competence in this area has to conduct a thorough investigation into this case, as would be violating the laws that were adopted after the counterclaim.

"We want the intervention of the president of the republic for the account of the climate of corruption that created the minister Rodolfo Sanz elements in Bolivar state," he said.

In another vein, said he will visit with national agencies, to report on suspected cases are happening in the state Guyanese, in alleged collusion with the owner of Mibam.

In the same vein, assured to continue with the protests in the streets, until they take their complaints and to comply with the commitments undertaken by the government after the mining process counterclaim.

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