Monteiro said that only had successfully charged that 120 miners and among them were many people who have never lived off the labor of mining, but are relatives of officials of Mibam, of the Fifth Infantry Division of Forest and the people of PSUV.

I was wondering but not suprised!

Looks like the "priority" payments were made to relatives of MIBAM, the ARMY infantry and members of PSUV.

This is just another of hundreds of examples of rife corruption in the Venezuelan Govt.

Unfortunetly these are the same people we have chosen to do business with.