Miners expected to meet with Chavez
Written by Jose Garcia - Photos: Miguel Lezama
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
El Callao .- The small miners on Tuesday closed the entrance to the town of El Callao, said that once again the Mibam, Clouded of them, which is why a commission traveled to the capital of the Republic for interviews with the president, Hugo Chávez Frías, so that he knows the issue from the lips of the gold workers. The injured are starting today in Caracas to meet with the president

There are about 1,000 miners who are demanding payments, to whom the national body (Mibam) promised they would have to debug a list where they would recognize only the payment to about 400 people, while the rest of the group of 600 will be "helped" by his comrades, once the remaining 400 or receive their payments, this information has not been confirmed, however the strong rumors about this agreement remain uncomfortable with a good bunch of gold that these workers have remained in pursuit of wages that they consider they are owed.

Magleys Munoz, who was the leader of Protestants, reported that "from today we Caracas that the lock was not given any person from which we were expecting, once again we were not taken into account and that's why we will reach to the office of President of the Republic for which it has to do much with it. We raised the crossbar by recognizing that we achieved the goals were not achieved by now and that we were somehow damaging to our own people, because with the closure remained stranded many trucks with food and other perishable thing we do not agree because we do not want to harm the people. "

He stressed that protests are of peaceful nature and does not intend to harm anyone and on the contrary they are aspiring to the Mibam meet them in their pedimentos compensation. "We met in Ciudad Bolivar at the headquarters of Minfra and Mission Piar, but the lawyer Mirla Munoz, left us planted and we do not want to meet. Today a committee of 150 in Caracas and we hope to be attended to bring an answer to our brothers miners, that the crossbar suspended because we saw that our people would continue to suffer, "Munoz meant.

Without policy

On the other hand the mining group's leader clarified that the
candidate for mayor of the municipality of El Callao Orlando
Albornoz, provided a significant collaboration with them, but also
noted that it is a help in a personal capacity and not in Orlando as
a candidate of an organization or political group. "At no time are we doing political campaign for any candidate, the struggle is the
struggle for us and our mining profits, but not accepting anything
that has to do with partisan politics and Orlando Albornoz was
presented to the crossbar and when I I saw I was glad that his
presence as a miner who watched it because he is from the age of 11 went with me and where it was not COASI COASI, Bathrobes gave aid as a miner and son of this town again because he is a miner from very boy, "he said.

Hopes

The small miners are demanding payment for their colleagues who say having been evicted from mining sites and to date they have not been canceled their payments have been "taken out" of these sites extracting gold-bearing material for their daily sustenance.

From today we Caracas to be kept in order to be attended by the
president of the republic, who must deal with the problem that has
meant the closure of trance and the Core 10, which among other things has caused great losses so far not quantifiable to many traders .

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