Americo De Grazia met with several of them in El Callao
"Small Miners walk like pariahs
Guyanese in their own lands "

* Repression is a bad counselor, has claimed many casualties and deaths. These miners are subjected to blackmail and extortion
* Sealed commitment miners evicted from the mines and Tomi Fosforito to fight from the National Assembly by spaces "for all the miners in Bolivar State under the premise that there is room for the multinationals of gold also must have been for small miners

EL CALLAO / Special Press LCR .- The independent mining families, after they were forcibly evicted by the Plan Caura, walk like outcasts or exercising his office of a lifetime in a clandestine manner or at night, in their own lands Guyanese.
Americo De Grazia, a candidate for deputy to the National Assembly, who has been visiting the various areas of mining activity to verify the status of this sector of the Guyanese economy and listen to their approaches in order to be incorporated within the proposed legislative agenda carry with Andres Velasquez and other candidates of the unit, they reiterated, after meeting with a group of miners evicted from Fosforito and Tomi mines in this area of southern Bolivar State.
Expounded on the proposal and the commitment to work spaces for small-scale miners as part of a management plan and sustainable mining development being proposed he and Andres Velasquez, along with the other candidate of unity in Guyana, but claiming mining law that Venezuelans have a space, like gold companies, both Chinese, Russian, Iranian, Canadian and Syrian, to exercise their usual work. De Grazia, who said that "our policy as well as last week we met with over a hundred miners at the La Paragua the Municipality Angostura where we have been receiving wide support from ore mining workers, farmers and miners, to listen their approaches, in the same way we have been doing with small groups of miners and their families in the municipalities of the southern state. "
WITH MINING OF phosphorite and TOMI
That is the reason that last Monday night in the Plaza El Jobo in this town of El Callao, meet with the independent miners, "the bateeros, those who are not attached to any type of social organization but they do mining activity since many years ago. "
He explained that these miners were evicted from the mines and Tomi Fosforito, "abruptly, without giving them any hope or solution."
"That shows once again the. repressive nature of the national government and we are obliged to defend the mining activity, because that is the main source of income for these people and state-stressed Americo de Grazia.
"Consequently," the leading candidate for the southern unit of the National Assembly by the circuit 3 in Bolivar State, "we need to establish a pattern of behavior and we believe that these mines, which are under the custody of Minerven must be delivered to small-scale mining, the way of protecting an area to work. "
REPRESSION, bad advisor
It was crucial to provide their views on the mining issue, noting that "we can not continue to affect or admitting, as Guyanese, the political repression as a method to address mining."
"The repression is a bad counselor, has claimed many casualties and deaths. These miners are subjected to blackmail and extortion. They work underground, in darkness, at night, risking his own life, as indeed the tragedy occurred last week when six miners were buried in this same mine.
- And to attribute that candidate?
"That is because the government has been sluggish in offering alternatives and solutions for work spaces of mining.
COMMITMENT TO SMALL MINING
- What will you ensure the partnership unit, to the miners?
"Our contract from the National Assembly, as we have been expressing all the miners with whom we have spoken, the commitment of Manuel Gonzalez as my deputy, Gudiño as Tulio and indigenous candidate Andres Velasquez as the candidate for deputy to Voting heads the list throughout the State of Bolivar and my own, Américo De Grazia, is to engage in the defense of small-scale mining, always under the premise that if there is space to work the large transnational Russian, Canadian, Chinese and Iranian and Syrian now also has to be room for the miners Venezuelans take us a few defenders, not only of local and regional economy, but some advocates of mining activity in the region and in El Callao in a particular way.