Industralists, sandboxes, landladies and workers of the state miner, located in the Pebble, protested this Tuesday by the noncancellation of some slow invoices.

Carlos Andres Monsalve
Natalie Garci'a

Workers stay in protest. They ask besides the payment of slopes, the resignation of the president of the company to miner

The protestants are in charge to carry the material that is processed in the plant where the gold is extracted to him. In view of the situation, the different unions that do life in the miner added to the protest being useful the conjuncture to demand the exit of all the administration headed by Luis Herrera Mendoza. At the same time they demanded the presence of minister of Basic Industries and Minería.

Rafael Angel Kings, Secretary General of the Union of Professionals and Technicians (Simpro) indicated that the resignation of the president is “one of the priorities of the workers”. Erremi Grove added that this point is vital to be able to reach a possible agreement and to reactivate the activities of the company.

Also they indicated the annoying protestants who from the month of December had themselves ruled to realise the paralyzation when not sharing the policies of work of the representative of the company.

“The cooperatives that serve to the company, not yet have received, this are a quite delicate situation”, affirmed to Rafael Kings. On the other hand Pedro Fabio Arzola, one of the affected renters, expressed that “we will stay until they cancel everything to us what they must to us”.

Millionaire debt
According to some members of a cooperative, the debt that maintains the company with them, goes from 300 thousands Bs.F to 800 thousands, nevertheless reiterates that its main priority is the resignation of the representative of Minerven.

More than two thousand 100 workers their functions paralyzed, hoping to obtain an agreement on their requests, but until hours afternoon a town hall abierto with the active forces was realised and no of the parts managed to conciliate an agreement to restore normality.

The workers informed that a tense situation was lived, when a commando of the Army took the facilities from the company, whereas the circumstance also repelled in the tranquillity of the population of Callao and Tumeremo. However, La Paz stayed.

Of trip in the capital
On Luis Herrera Mendoza, president of the gold company processor, knew itself that he is of trip in the city of Caracas because presumably will be named minister of the Popular Power for the Industries and Minería (Mibam), replacing the present representative Rodolfo Sanz.

Luis Herrera, telephone route, denied such affected affirmations and requested to the patience and calm because the lack of payment had to the days off of Christmas and year end. “We were going it to the payment to realise the 30 but there were problems with the banks and just today he is that we were settling the transference to cancel to them”.

He indicated the representative who the company stays solid and the protest actions are related to the sabotage of the “right” that is within the company and that in the last months also has generated certain disadvantages.

Meanwhile, employees and members of a cooperative still on stay of protest until an agreement to the benefit of its requests is obtained.

New company

Luis Herrera, president of Minerven, showed that the company is making agreements important in mining matter and that the reason for its trip for Caracas was a visit to Ecuador, where the auriferous delay within the framework to conform a mixed company of gold extraction and other minerals of the cooperation of the DAWN (Alternative Bolivariana of the towns of America).