El Universal
Caracas, Friday September 19, 2008

Miners of Bolivar resume protests demanding payments
They offer sustain operations while the authorities fail to comply

Ciudad Bolivar .- Some 800 miners from a different populations of the southern state was bet around the vial which gives entry to the capital of bolivarense entity to enforce promises of conversion programme and the payment of the humanitarian aid offered by the national government.

The vial located in Ciudad Bolivar Avenue Upata brought together much of the approximately 10 thousand workers from La Paragua miners, Lima and San Salvador de Paul, who for months waiting for compliance with the offers that were made by the Minister of Basic Industries and Mining, Rodolfo Sanz, whom they accused of "irresponsible, because they have hesitated to a working population that has relied on him."

For Alfredo Villanueva, the mining town of La Paragua, the protest was prompted by the long waiting time and truce since the authorities of Mibam without seeing solutions.

"We know that President Chavez had an event in La Mina The Camora and we also know that this act was suspended to prevent us disgruntled miners did you know the reality of the situation in the state," said the miner.

Protesters demand answers at 6 thousand applications for financial grants offered under the mining restructuring that began two years ago and that is the same president who assumes the solution of their problems.

"This is a peaceful but forceful takes to ask the Mibam honors the offer to give housing, pensions and loans to miners who benefited from the conversion," he said Villanueva.

They assured reporters that the day of protest will continue indefinitely and that in only be settled after the formation of a table of dialogue "which should present solutions and not more promises."

They warned that the government could delay release making mining areas of the entity by those affected, who retake the diamond and gold mining.

Felipe Corales, Union representative of El Callao Mining, urged top military authority in the area to assist in finding a final solution.

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