Miners Protest tranca Heres avenue in
Friday, September 19, 2008

Again the miners at La Paragua, Raúl Leoni municipality, were on Thursday after news that trance Avenue and the Paseo Liberator Simón Bolívar of Ciudad Bolivar. The group claimed payment for the conversion mining, which according to them-so far-has not reached everyone involved.

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Photo Armando Rivas


Miners call for Chavez to act presence in the state capital

A group of miners were inflamed bet since early morning hours of this Thursday in the vial that communicates Avenue and the Paseo Liberator Simón Bolívar bolivarense of the capital, to demand back payment of money owed to them by the national government from 2 years ago, proceeds from the conversion mining.

More than 500 protesters, from the town Raúl Leoni, demanded the minister of Basic Industries and Mining (Mibam), Rodolfo Sanz, who appear in person at the place to give answers on the payment offered to them by abandoning the mines and, thus ending the uncertainty in their own lives over 10 thousand displaced miners.

David Lira, spokesman for those affected, stated that "those who pay the direct consequence are our families, because begin classes and have no money to buy uniforms for our children, so that only the demand of social justice which speaks President of the Republic ".

"Here we talk about revolution, but we do not see the revolution by any side, and we demand that we pay compensation, which we were promised as part of the conversion mining, to which we attachment, but not by choice, the appeal made by President Hugo Chávez and the onslaught to which we were subjected by theatre Number 5 (TO-5). "

Lost contact
Moreover, Lira said that "the president has lost touch with the people and we are poking these rulers' cat by hares'. In Bolivar state that there is the hunger and misery and there is talk of revolution. "

He called the president Hugo Chávez to make act of presence in the state capital, to listen to the people who chose him and thus ensure the calamities that are living miners displaced.

Luis Carvajal, one of the injured miners, who he said are already tired of the lies, and what we ask is that you find an immediate solution to the problem of payment owed to them for two years.

They will continue to protest
Carvajal clarified that he will be protesting in place indefinitely, until they do act with presence-a solution to the problem- Minister Sanz or the President of the Republic.

"We are not dogs, drug addicts or prostitutes as it said on one occasion the state governor (Francisco Rangel Gomez), we are parents, so we tell the citizen governor is where he is for us and that is agreed that comes a new electoral process, in which he is seeking to be reelected, "said Trina Maria Yanez, another of those affected.

Alfredo Villanueva, another spokesman for the miners, noted that "in view of the multiple deceptions that has told us the owner of Mibam, we decided to trancar road to demand that we give what was promised as pensions, housing, jobs and credit, because we ended patience.

"We are Venezuelans"

Alfredo Villanueva, representative of the miners, noted that "we are Venezuelans, and if we pulled out of mining activity, calling us to pay the money promised, and enough of deceit many of us in the town Raúl Leoni who are going hungry and need money to survive. "

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