The unavoidable exit generates uncertainty in the deposits of the south, that also are in condition of illegality.

Natalie Garci'a
Photo William Urdaneta

The affected ones by the evacuations denounce that the military, presumably undressed, them of their properties

Jorge Lopez, miner of the sector the Lemon, explained that Friday a group of the military arrived on board two helicopters at the town Track the Means, located to one hour of way of the first mentioned zone, and once they ordered the exit of the people there and so they wore.

“That was horrible, we we did not know anything, but at night we listened to an uproar, was people happening through the desperate river. The military until cleared the gold and the money to them that they had. In order to avoid to pass the same we had to leave thus before they arrived and to save alguito”.

Pedro González, of Colombian nationality, commented that it picked up his few things in a purse, when the military cash ordered the exit of Track the Means.

“They commanded to Us to leave and I gathered, but when I begin to walk to go to me they stopped to me and they forced to give money to me and gramas of gold that it loaded of the fact in the week, that was not an evacuation, was a holdup”.

Before this situation and the state of defenselessness of the miners, offended relatives and demand that during the operative ones there is participation of the organisms of the State in charge to guard by the human rights, in order to avoid abuses of office.

While the evacuations in the Manteco follow one another like part of the combat operations of the Caura Plan, start up for more than two weeks to fight the illegal mining, many orerators of illegal deposits to the south of the organization are combat ready in case the Army arrives until its towns in the next days.