The leader miner Rodolfo Nimo, president of the Workers Union of Mineworkers of Bolivar state (Sintramin), made a call warning of the holder of the Ministry of Basic Industries and Mining (Mibam), Rodolfo Sanz, for ordering a direct some specific areas dedicated only to small-scale mining.

  The statement was made by the social struggle in our wording, who stated that the owner of Mibam, Rodolfo Sanz, should activate a working mechanism that would enable an effective response to the problems faced by more than 30 thousand workers in the mining state of Bolivar , "after the resounding failure of the conversion mining, where former ministers Victor Alvarez and Jackeline Farías, squandered more than 350 billion bolivars, money that was intended for retraining programmes mining, but that never came to our hands," explained Rodolfo Nimo.

Nimo claimed that the minister Rodolfo Sanz "must put tough to certain officials who comprise a mafia of mining in Bolivar state, as is the case with the vice minister Mibam, Ivan Hernandez, who is one of those responsible for the transfer and use of mining equipment in areas protected by a special regime, allowing the smuggling of 6 million litres of fuel per month, used to remove entrails of our heritage over One Million Dollars in annual gold and diamond, at the expense of the destruction of our environment, "said.

The leader pointed out that mining is not possible that in the state of Bolivar there is a ministry of mines as Mibam, and "carrying out a practice of indiscriminate illegal mining with the extraction of gold and diamond, without any kind of fiscal control, gleefully mocking Smuggling Zero Plan of Seniat, "he added.