Two thousand miners evicted expect compensation payments
Wednesday, June 11, 2008

It is time to deliver the 107.5 billion bolivars

Now that the issue reappeared payment of compensation to nearly two thousand miners evicted from the high Caura, miners in the municipalities of the South, remember that the availability was announced by the National Executive, $ 50 million, equivalent to 107.5 billion bolivars from the old to finance projects related to the conversion mining. The conversion was announced more than two years ago and very few are funded projects, indicating that Bandes there are thousands of projects waiting to be cleared.

The conversion anticipated that one miner who worked in areas of ecological fragility and want to change activity, will receive funding for a new activity which is going to spend.

Another source reported that the problem was compounded because the projects from the municipalities of the South, were placed at the box office only, installed in the offices of the Ministry of Environment in Tumeremo and from there went to Mibam where they made the final evaluation. These projects became Bandes for its liquidation, but according to sources mining, Bandes has its own mechanisms for assessing projects for funding, not coincide with those of Mibam. Until this point forward the corresponding procedures

Between 50 and one billion

Explains Dallys Figueroa, El Dorado cooperative, to fund small-scale mining activity as well as the activities that are willing to devote the change of activity, Bandes has $ 50 million that to change, representing 107.5 billion bolivars for those financings. Applications for funding are submitted to Bandes amounts ranging from up to 50 billion bolivars.

Figueroa adds that requests for funding that are repressive in Bandes, relate to miners who seek change of activity, leaving other pending applications for mining development of small amounts of which will exceed previous ones. Much of small-scale mining is still waiting for that Mibam issuing certificates of exploitation and Bandes financing.

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