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artisanal miners, who were displaced from mining areas located in the Caura River basin after the conversion process driven by the national government some years ago, decided to take the doors of the Regional Government Palace yesterday, in the afternoon.
Alfredo Villanueva, chief spokesman of the miners included in the conversion, he led the peaceful demonstration staged some 200 people who expressed their outrage at the lack of satisfactory answers from the government regarding the payment of the various commitments made after the eviction process for gold to include workers in other employment schemes that do not conflict with natural resources and the environment.
This process has borne fruit not only has generated great social unrest in more than 6 thousand miners and mining which sided with the conversion project in the hope that the promises would be fulfilled within a few months.
However, they are now almost three years since the former workers remain illegal mining "in struggle" to demand the cancellation of the debts and the initiation of social benefits implicit in the proposed conversion.
This was stated by Alfredo Villanueva, who stressed that they will not stop until we have a concrete answer regarding their requests and that is the same governor of Bolívar Francisco Rangel Gomez, who channeled the situation faced by miners in the region before the first Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez.
"We only have flouted the dignity of the miners are fighting for something that belongs to us as persons covered by the conversion project, but we promised that nothing has completely fulfilled," Villanueva stressed.
Immediate dismissal
The miners not only be consistent with the vindication of their rights, but demand the dismissal of Minister Rodolfo Sanz and the directors of the CVG, and a thorough investigation into the so-called Mission Piar.
According to Villanueva, have sufficient evidence on alleged corruption that mainly affected the mining population, who look forward to the rest of the payment for the conversion.
In that sense, he said it is still unknown the fate of those 20 million Bolivars approved by the national parliament for three years for the remaining payment of miners displaced from their places of work by the conversion policy that sought to insert those people in other productive areas.
"We see with great indignation mockery with Mibam officials and the Mission Piar with miners who firmly believed in this project and abide responsibly, they have not fulfilled their part and so we keep up the fight" he said.
He said the declarant before the National Assembly (AN) has already raised on several occasions the situation in which they are kept more than 6 thousand illegal mining workers who were evicted from the areas of operation for about two and a half years that still waiting for the promised payments and other commitments of the mining conversion, among which is the delivery of social and production credits for which were already approved some 21 million strong bolivar, according to the information provided by Alfredo Villanueva.
"But these resources also saw a penny and we are demanding answers from the government and came to the last instance to show that the conversion process was riddled with corrupt," brandished.
Specific responses
He said the miners' leader who chose to take the gates of Government House after staying two hours meeting at the Plaza Bolivar, in view of the negative responses from the governor. R.Sanz ,the miners and the inaction suffered like us at Kry.....
Villanueva said that several days ago held a meeting with regional president, who promised to channel their situation to the president of the republic, Hugo Chávez, "but apparently (...) there was a refusal to pay us the commitments of the conversion and we are demanding concrete answers, "he said.
Continued demonstration spokesman clarified that "We are not guarimberos, we are only demanding our rights as proven by the Ombudsman and the National Assembly, we have the evidence in hand about the corruption in the Mibam and Mission Piar , which mainly affects these fathers and mothers who believed in this process of reconversion of mining and are starving today.
He said that the former workers of mining no longer endure more waiting and waiting many have died as the result of the announced restructuring, which is considered a "humiliation" because they are people who believed in a political project which today turns its back .
Alfredo Villanueva added that one of the situations which most affected the miners from the moral point of view was the Government's promise to include them in plans other than work that came running in logging areas, a promise that so far has not been met.
He said they have already collected more than 4 thousand signatures of miners to the governor delivers them to President Chavez with the report containing evidence of alleged acts of corruption that were running in the Mibam and Mission Piar, representing the main cause of failure to pay, according to Villanueva.
He reported that this is the last respite of representatives of the mining sector in the region and will continue to demand answers, but this time want to be the national president himself who will clarify the situation.
Alfredo Villanueva, chief spokesman of the miners included in the conversion, he led the peaceful demonstration staged some 200 people who expressed their outrage at the lack of satisfactory answers from the government regarding the payment of the various commitments made after the eviction process for gold to include workers in other employment schemes that do not conflict with natural resources and the environment.
This process has borne fruit not only has generated great social unrest in more than 6 thousand miners and mining which sided with the conversion project in the hope that the promises would be fulfilled within a few months.
However, they are now almost three years since the former workers remain illegal mining "in struggle" to demand the cancellation of the debts and the initiation of social benefits implicit in the proposed conversion.
This was stated by Alfredo Villanueva, who stressed that they will not stop until we have a concrete answer regarding their requests and that is the same governor of Bolívar Francisco Rangel Gomez, who channeled the situation faced by miners in the region before the first Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez.
"We only have flouted the dignity of the miners are fighting for something that belongs to us as persons covered by the conversion project, but we promised that nothing has completely fulfilled," Villanueva stressed.
Immediate dismissal
The miners not only be consistent with the vindication of their rights, but demand the dismissal of Minister Rodolfo Sanz and the directors of the CVG, and a thorough investigation into the so-called Mission Piar.
According to Villanueva, have sufficient evidence on alleged corruption that mainly affected the mining population, who look forward to the rest of the payment for the conversion.
In that sense, he said it is still unknown the fate of those 20 million Bolivars approved by the national parliament for three years for the remaining payment of miners displaced from their places of work by the conversion policy that sought to insert those people in other productive areas.
"We see with great indignation mockery with Mibam officials and the Mission Piar with miners who firmly believed in this project and abide responsibly, they have not fulfilled their part and so we keep up the fight" he said.
He said the declarant before the National Assembly (AN) has already raised on several occasions the situation in which they are kept more than 6 thousand illegal mining workers who were evicted from the areas of operation for about two and a half years that still waiting for the promised payments and other commitments of the mining conversion, among which is the delivery of social and production credits for which were already approved some 21 million strong bolivar, according to the information provided by Alfredo Villanueva.
"But these resources also saw a penny and we are demanding answers from the government and came to the last instance to show that the conversion process was riddled with corrupt," brandished.
Specific responses
He said the miners' leader who chose to take the gates of Government House after staying two hours meeting at the Plaza Bolivar, in view of the negative responses from the governor. R.Sanz ,the miners and the inaction suffered like us at Kry.....
Villanueva said that several days ago held a meeting with regional president, who promised to channel their situation to the president of the republic, Hugo Chávez, "but apparently (...) there was a refusal to pay us the commitments of the conversion and we are demanding concrete answers, "he said.
Continued demonstration spokesman clarified that "We are not guarimberos, we are only demanding our rights as proven by the Ombudsman and the National Assembly, we have the evidence in hand about the corruption in the Mibam and Mission Piar , which mainly affects these fathers and mothers who believed in this process of reconversion of mining and are starving today.
He said that the former workers of mining no longer endure more waiting and waiting many have died as the result of the announced restructuring, which is considered a "humiliation" because they are people who believed in a political project which today turns its back .
Alfredo Villanueva added that one of the situations which most affected the miners from the moral point of view was the Government's promise to include them in plans other than work that came running in logging areas, a promise that so far has not been met.
He said they have already collected more than 4 thousand signatures of miners to the governor delivers them to President Chavez with the report containing evidence of alleged acts of corruption that were running in the Mibam and Mission Piar, representing the main cause of failure to pay, according to Villanueva.
He reported that this is the last respite of representatives of the mining sector in the region and will continue to demand answers, but this time want to be the national president himself who will clarify the situation.
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