A group of miners who toils in the sector the Claritas decided to bar this Thursday, first of May, the highway which he unites to Venezuela with Brazil, with the purpose of protesting against several announced evacuations and by its right to the trabajo.Los demonstrators, which they toil in the neighborhoods of Crystallex, they assured that they are threatening removing them them from the place, through a measurement of the Office of the public prosecutor Twelfth of the Public Ministry, with Environmental Competition, Santa Elena de Uairén.

Natalie Garci'a
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The Claritas. - The pole, that began 11:00 of Thursday in the morning, extended until more of the 5:00 of afternoon, delaying to hundreds of temporadistas that traveled until the Great Savannah taking advantage of the break the Day of the Worker.

Although Guardia Nacional (GN) and the Police of Estado Boli'var (PEB) were present to dissolve the manifestation, little they could do and as soon as they stayed as mediators of this new mining conflict that brings to collation the problems that have been dating for years between the small mining and Crystallex, main affected by the occupation of the family parents.

Sea of doubts
According to they related the residents of these mines, Wednesday informed to them to fifteen into its companions who had to leave the place in a term of 24 hours, otherwise would be stopped. Such order was transmitted by civil employees of the outstanding GN in the zone.

"they did not show nor who sent to us to evacuate, we are tired of that always is the same, if they are going to remove we want to us to know why crime and if removes some then all we go páfuera, not even they showed the order to us and in addition they arrived without showing to its symbol nor name, nothing... if they think that we are a leg in the ground are mistaken, we know our rights and they are not going to us to take by idiots, or it is good of all this", she said an inhabitant of White Relave, that she preferred not to be identified.

For these miners, each "CONATO" of evacuation is a ridicule to its intelligence, since they have been in areas operated for decades without this, according to his to seem, affects the mentioned company, that not yet receives the permissions for the operation.

"Were notified fifteen miners, that implies that are 22 equipment that go for outside without to count families, between all we must to leave one hundred or one hundred ten people of there by those orders that we do not know from where they come, clear that they said to us today - Thursdays that were of the office of the public prosecutor of Santa Elena de Uairén, but from when they they have competition here, they are Great Savannah and we Sifontes, if they remove to us then for where we took hold with the unemployment that there is, al we have less there like eating", explained Ruddy Bosa.

Questions without answers
Before making the closing of the route that unites Venezuela with Brazil, the miners approached the inner doors of Crystallex to demand answers from the GN and the same company, being obtained a brief explanation of a military cash, that informed to them about the evacuations and that had emitted the orders.

"I fulfill with which she indicated the public prosecutor, if I do not lose my work, the evacuations were against eleven miners in specific and the mandate comes from Office of the public prosecutor 12 of the Public Ministry, the public prosecutor with environmental competition is Savino Rosales, diríjanse to Santa Elena so that they clarify his situation", it indicated the civil employee, who requested to the mining ones calms and will to fix the problems without entering greater conflicts.

Weigh to this clarifying one and still more confused than before, they decided to make a closing of main the 10 in looks for of answers, but last the 5:00 of late principle was worse than al, already that the emanated evacuations of this court al to seem were "false".

"the truth is that we do not understand what happens, the same person who said to us in the morning that the evacuations were by order of the office of the public prosecutor of Santa Elena, soon said us that there were no such evacuations, then what happens here, we are surprised by all this and we do not know nor whom to believe, it is a ridicule", she indicated a demonstrator.

Telephone route was contacted one of the mediating military in this conflict, which informed about the nonexistence of the legal performances, denying that - until the moments it is going away to catch the demonstrators, who only requested answers that they, as Armed Forces could not offer to them.

The tourists and residents of other zones complained about the maintained manifestation that so maintained them by many hours to the delay of an exit that it tried to them to follow his trip, and as they planned it.

Zone for the small mining

The new policy of the Ministry of the Popular Power for the Basic Industries and Mining (Mibam) raises that the mining zones in the state Bolivar are redistributed towards the south, but in the axis Upata-kilometer 88, where specific areas for the great and small miners will be organized.

Between one of these areas the Cristinas could be the project, that has been many years without being taken advantage of in spite of being one of greatest of Latin America. By this it is that dilemmas like the present one appear, that will be only controlled once the ordering of the zones destined for the mining well is demarcated, as well as the rules of the game.