Miners will be treated at the AN
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Representatives of the mining town Raul Leoni, most affected by the conversion, will be transferred to Caracas to speak about their situation and demand that the government comply with all that they promised.

Natalie Garcia
Picture William Urdaneta



Miners were on the streets and without hope of having any means to survive with dignity The spokesmen Alejandro Villarroel and Jose Beltran Kroni, said that depending on the response or not be cast into the streets.

The quotation in Caracas will be taken on March 27, reported Villarroel, who also said that they felt cheated by the agencies involved in the conversion because they left them worse off than before.

"This will be a time bomb that will explode any time, we ask the minister Rodolfo Sanz avoque that the situation because we have already met with him twice and nothing."

"We are the children of anyone, we morirnos mandated in the city," said the representative, who also said "we are mocked, humiliated, we took advantage of our work sites to deambuláramos and mendigáramos around".

Without mourners

Ten thousand miners Bolivar state were affected by the issue of conversion and so far they have not had an outlet, the vast majority continued to engage in mining because there are no other sources of employment. However, a group that was evicted, Paragua The case remained on the streets without humanitarian aid or a roof where getting. Those who could went home to their families, others are waiting for a chance to get into a job because his home was destroyed.

"We are tired, tired of deceit that the only thing we received from the conversion are abuses, lead and planazos part of the Theater of Operations No. 5 ... We are not asking, we are demanding payments that were promised because the funds were allocated and never call for an investigation into the engineer responsible for Javier Mendez People-Government Alliance, who did nothing. "

Union guild

Operators of minerals indicated that they are extending their appeal to the other fellow all municipalities so that they are on alert for what might happen, the intention is to act together and reclaim what was established in the conversion mining through Decree 4,633, which speaks of changing economic activity to a more cost-effective from an environmental point of view.

"We have one years fighting, the deputy Pastora Medina is the one that has helped us, but the rest we do not care and the governor has disengaged from everything as if it were not with him, the Legislative Council of Bolivar State (CLEB) ignored , then what are we going to do if they are evidence of what has happened and nobody investigates? ".