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the press is responsible for miner confusion...

posted on Nov 18, 2008 01:58AM
Miners retain vice-president of Bauxilum in Mibam
Tuesday, 18 of November of 2008

Alfredo Arcila accompanied by other managers of the company, was kidnapped by a group of miners who realised a pacific manifestation against soothes of the Mibam in city Bolivar

  • Hernán Velazco
  • Photo: Richard Side

Miners declared to the doors of the Mibam
A numerous group of miners, who carried out a pacific manifestation against soothes of the Ministry the Popular Power of Basic Industries and Minings (MIibam) located in the Liberating avenue of city Bolivar, decided to retain by several hours the vice-president of the CVG Bauxilum Alfredo Arcila who stops the moment (about the 2 of afternoon), decided to approach the place with the purpose of to calm the manifestation and to mediate in the conflict that maintains the executive with this sector.

“BY A FALSE NOTE OF PRESS”

“This is an upsetting against our integrity because we only try to clarify the panorama, because the payment of checks corresponding to the debt of the mining reconversion, will be made east cash Thursday 20 of November”, maintained Arcila, emphasizing that by a “false note of press” spread by a newspaper of regional circulation, which announced that the payment of the commitments acquired by the government with the mining sector after the counterclaim process, would take place the day Monday 17 yesterday of November, that is to say, creating this way a climate of confusion in more than 5 thousand displaced miners in all the state Bolivar, whom they demanded to the doors ofthe Mibam, that this debt was cancelled that same day.

This illegal deprivation of freedom was applied to five civil servants of the company CVG Bauxilum whose names are the following: Alfredo Arcila vice-president of the referred company; Tabai Lucena Manager of prevention, Pedro Rivero, Jose Barreto and Jose working Morals of this one, besides retaining a leader of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (Psuv) of name Roy Quiaragua.

“RETAINED UNTIL THEY PAY TO US”

Meanwhile, the mining leaders in you of Rolando Martinez showed that they will maintain the measurement of retention with the civil servants of CVG Bauxilum until the payment has not been cancelled them that the executive owes to them. “We want that they fulfill his word and that the minister of the Mibam Rodolfo Sanz appears itself and he gives a serious answer us; he is already enough of as much ridicule”. Martinez said. On the other hand, they emphasized that its protest does not have political aims, because they only try that the fiance' by the executive after the mining counterclaim is fulfilled to them. ” We are not with any political party nor we are with some candidate, we only want that one is pleased to us or”.

The miners are responsible

On the other hand, the vice-president of CVG-Bauxilum Alfredo Arcila made responsible the miners who took the determination to retain them, because in case of any aggression to its physical integrity and the one of the other implied civil servants, “the weight of the law would be applied to them”

He added Arcila, that does not have any disadvantage in remaining with the miners by the time that these require, while it did a call to them to the calm then, “the payment will be made east cash Thursday”, assured Arcila.

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