As per my earlier suggestion about posting VHeadline trash once, here is the article. Please don't line Roy's pocket by visiting VH or any other VH affilated site...

Published: Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Bylined to: VHeadline.com Reporters

Chavez prepares to announce new Minister of Basic Industries & Mines (MIBAM)

VHeadline Venezuela News reports: According to unofficial government sources, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez Frias is preparing to announce the appointment of (current Labor Minister) Maria Cristina Iglesias to an important portfolio as Minister of Basic Industries & Mines (MIBAM).

The appointment was first rumored two weeks ago by political weekly 'Las Verdades de Miguel' (Miguel's Truths) editor & publisher Miguel Salazar but it is understood that the official announcement is to take place at any moment ahead of President Chavez' departure on an important series of official visits to Syria, Iran and the Russian Federation next week.

Maria Cristina Iglesias will take over as head of Mibam from Rodolfo Sanz, who will step down from Mibam with immediate effect but will continue as president of the heavy industry conglomerate, the Venezuelan Guayana Corporation (CVG) with a special focus on iron & steel Siderurgica del Orinoco (SIDOR).

Iglesias' appointment is seen as strategic in view of serious labor difficulties in the industrial Guayana region of south-eastern Bolivar State and recent demands for Sanz' resignation over unfulfilled undertakings on back-pay and social benefits to thousands of workers, including artesanal gold miners who have been moved off large tracts of gold-bearing territories to make way for a massive re-development of the nation's gold mining industry under the auspices of the CVG's gold-mining subsidiary CVG-Minerven in a key joint venture deal with Russian interests that, apparently, are a primary focus in Chavez' next week negotiations with Russian President Medvedev.