Crystallex ask for immediate release if
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Consider the decision to nationalize Las Cristinas them right.

Chancellor and William Carlos Saud, both arrested in cases involving
transnational Crystallex, expressed their views on the national government's
decision to terminate the operating contract to the Canadian company that was
awarded "without prior tender" by the Corporación Venezolana de Guyana, on the
mining concessions Cristina 4, 5, 6 and 7, located in southern Bolivar state.

Explains Saud, who takes 11 months in detention, that "many were the
expectations that were generated in the mining communities hit with the award of
that contract, as the then president of the CVG, Francisco Rangel Gómez, now
governor of Bolivar State, promised , which the company in a minimum term would
begin construction of a gold plant would generate an estimated 3,500 direct
employment sources. "

The failure of these hopes for progress and a number of situations in which the
MNC was involved was the trigger for a mass demonstration that took the core 10
for several days and which was stopped Carlos Chancellor along with other
leaders.

On this the miners' leader William Saud recalled that "in the present
authorities of the Ministry of Energy and Mines, represented in this act by the
deputy minister, Orlando Ortega and President of Mission Piar, Wilmer Pereira,
requested the immediate opening of an investigation facts about the atrocities
against the Crystallex mining town and for breach of contract with the CVG and
that is terminated to form a national mining company that would accommodate
small, medium and large scale mining. "

This change did not occur because of this proposal were issued six tickets for
the capture of Carlos Chancellor, William Saud, Pedro Perez, Hernan Ledesma,
Norma Marquez and Carmen had to, who for long five years were deprived liberty
facing the "most bizarre process Legal known in Venezuela, "said Saud.

That is why the miners' leader and the elected mayor of Sifontes argue that
once demonstrated, as is implied by the decision of the Venezuelan state of
"nationalizing the activity" both he and Chancellor should be released
immediately.

"It is clearly shown that people once again was right, it was not necessary to
run over an entire community by attacking the way she acted so wild that the
authorities do not justify the closure of two leaders of the miners who alleged
irregularities against the state and their communities, does not justify the
inhumane fact two parents separated from their wives, children and grandchildren
and therefore ask that you review our legal position, "he said Saud. (NG)

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