City Bolívar. Brigadier-General (EJBV), Jose Gregorio Montilla Pantoja, commander of the Theater of Operations Five number, offering the result of the military operations and social conditions in the mining areas where such illegal activities were carried out, he said that all performances were executed attached to the Constitution and laws that form. The commander before returning the result to the press, he reiterated that the Theater of Operations No. 5 was created for military operations and combat illegal mining, the depredation of the environment, terrorism, illicit drug trafficking, kidnapping and performance of smuggling, as well as all those crimes that may occur within the jurisdiction of the state of Bolivar.

Equally through a measure precautelativa Court Third and Second Control Ciudad Bolivar, which authorizes the seizure of all kinds of materials and thereby exercising illegal mining. He explained that on October 21, 2007, appointed a comisiòn, which was commanded by General Orozco Ojeda to address the Chiguao The industry, to inform the people that there would be a measure of eviction because they were exercising illegal mining , then on November 15 was executed action, where some machines were destroyed, an issue that had an impact on the media. Then on 20 January 2008, was executed another operation for the same purpose. There, in the first phase were destroyed four clandestine airstrips, where a group of people, mostly undocumented, illegally extracting diamonds, sold to compadores from other countries, especially Brazil, to be a smuggling of precious stones while in the second phase, continued with the destruction of equipment and extraction arrested 17 people in Brazilian and Colombian origin, which were submitted to the Court of Control, who were imposed precautionary measures, and then leave them free .

He added that 30 of last January, a Brazilian citizen by presenting a picture worsened malaria was tasladado to command TO5 to be admitted to hospital Ruiz and Paéz.

He went on to say that the first of February was received the visit of the Inspector General of the Army, general division, Felix Velasquez, who instructed by the President of the Republic, came to assess the operations being carried out, it was up to the site and found the magnitude of the problem.

Finally the third phase included the deployment of the units to be sure that would not be anyone in the sector, whose results were as follows; 61 monitors destroyed, four airstrips, 86 drums for fuel storage, 618 ranches, 31 washing machines material from illegal mining, a welding workshop, 12,482 meters of hose, eight power plants and 17 petty corruption. These are centres where they practice prostitution and smuggled to the diamond.

Major-General stressed that there are more than one hundred hectares that illegal mining ceased deforested, which will cost them a lot of time to regain its originality, thereby creating a threat to the rivers guayaneses and thus to human life.

Pantoja Montilla noted that in his opinion, environmental crimes should be stricter, poque violate humanity, which should be considered as crimes against humanity, which is why he is preparing a letter requesting a review of this Act and presenting some considerations on the matter.

The basins are the Caura upcoming operations

The high-ranking military Bolivarian Army, stressed that the Caura watershed areas and the great Savannah will be the sites comply upcoming military operations, as has already been ejectuados the work of intelligence and similar events have been detected as occurred in the town Raúll Leoni

638 evacuees

General Montilla Pantoja, in summarizing the military action in the sector The Chiguao, said that 638 people were evacuated, most illegal aliens, as well as minor children. Non-nationals moved to the froneras their countries of origin, but no one was arrested, nor were any kind of material seized gold.