Miners call for cancellation of outstanding debts
Section - Qty. Bolivar
Written by Gil Irama. Foto: Cesar Mendoza
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 00:40

Miners in La Paragua are being asked to lower the thousand 300 million Bolivars, recently approved by the national government
Again the Bolivar State mining are felt in this city. In yesterday protested peacefully, against the regional bureau of the Ministry of Environment to demand that their rights are claimed.

Also call for the Minister of Basic Industries and Mining, José Khan, granting them permission to extract gold in the following areas: Suparapapoi, which has 24 000 ha, The Bow, New Heart of Jesus; Apamao, Visatarra and BATNA.

According to Alfredo Villanueva, director of Mission Piar, with the delivery of these small-scale mining areas will be legalized and thus develop direct and indirect jobs.

They also seek to expedite the process of the National Plan is to reverse Caura that mining in other permitted areas where ecosystem damage is not as aggressive.

"We are severing the right to work. We hereby demand that the Minister Khan that allows us to continue working in the small mining Ikabaru sector, "said Villanueva.

More than 4 thousand miners are awaiting conversion. By 2006 they were promised 15 000 bolivars and other benefits.

In the eyes of the miners the Government has breached the deal agreed, forgetting the commitment of thousands of families that their only source of income for years was the extraction of gold.


CALL FOR EXPELLED Garimpeiros

We also denounce the presence of Brazilian miners, better known as garampeiros. They claim that these people continue to exploit mining in Venezuela, specifically in the Caroni river channel.

Led to the requirement to purge the Mission Piar

REGIONAL GOVERNMENT RESPONDS

A week ago the miners rallied in the Plaza Bolivar to seek the intervention of the Governor, Francisco Rangel Gomez, who immediately attended to in the Palace of Government and managed by the Ministry for Basic Industries and Mining delegated to Tamaris Hernández, an official of Mission Piar so that through a tour of the area where you lift a report expressing the problem situation.

Similarly commissioned his private secretary and Victor Efren Hernandez Luyando channel to follow up and possible solutions to the mining dispute.

At the end of this week awaiting a meeting with the miners, officials of the Interior and the 5th Division in order to discuss the situation and mediate to resolve the problem faced by miners from six years ago.

"We want more workshops and remain in the streets but they pay us," he said categorically.