They denounce HR violation
in eviction to artisanal miners

Maudy Gutierrez said that the eviction violated the constitution. Special

SPECIAL
Ciudad Bolivar

The candidate for mayor of Raúl Leoni, Maudy Gutierrez, believes that the miners evicted become uprooted and may request the status of displaced persons with all the privileges that that status confers on them, and that the State must meet by international mandate.

"It is therefore necessary that small miners are formed in organizations to enforce their rights, which will defend with legal advice from the mayor's office chaired by me. The cessation of arbitrary and violent activities of gold and diamonds in Bolivar state, is a social crime that directly affects more than 50 thousand families ".

The candidate for mayor argues that a measure of eviction under these conditions violated several articles of the constitution and legal treaties relating to human rights.

Gutierrez said that the conversion mining can not be imposed under such conditions as the mining tradition of more than 200 years can not be closed unexpectedly a few months or change in the "modus vivendi" of a human quota of this magnitude.

"The failure of the conversion is obvious. No conversion process or transition from an economic activity will succeed if the benefits are obtained are not directly related in proportionate with the improvements that are looking to get the population. Nothing helps deliver a bag of food a family evicted if they do not seek an activity that will ensure the displaced sustainable employment for him and his children survive. "

In terms of environmental impact caused by mining activity may be pointed out that it is the result of the absence of state in the planning of this activity as in the vast mining of iron and bauxite. The plans and recovery programmes that area intervened moderately implemented CVG Sucre Figarella in the shaft Assa Karon showed that it was possible a sustainable mining and environmental damage completely reversible "concluded Maudy Gutierrez.
The candidate maintains that each mining sector should internalize and feel that the problem of any group is mining his own ordeal and that the struggle for environmental conservation is everybody, but not at the expense of slaughter of human beings whose only sin is being devoted to the debilitating mine production to lift his family by the absence of other alternatives.