Miners brought before the NA the problems in this area
Written by Moreno Seijas / Photos by Oscar Medina
Thursday, December 11, 2008
The central claim is that the National Assembly approved a provision for them to give them a bonus for conversion to over 4 thousand miners, however, claim that they were canceled just 20 per cent of those affected.
Yesterday they faced the hawkers, after trying to paste a lock on the doors of Banco de Venezuela, the state capital.

A Commission traveled to Caracas today and will meet with members of the Commission of Mines of the National Assembly. Three billion per day in lost trade to a halt 21 days

Ciudad Bolivar .- A large number of miners came yesterday to the governor's Bolivar state, under the leadership of Alfredo Villanueva, better known as "Morrocoy", being received by Colonel Efren Hernandez Lezama, director of Public Safety, who reported them that General Francisco Rangel Gomez, is currently in Caracas, seeking ways to resolve it once their situation, to cancel the debt of Conversion.

This time he relinquished the governorship three buses to a committee of 150 miners who went out last night at nine to Caracas, in order to meet the Commission of Mines of the National Assembly and request a right to speak, to explain their situation, as issued by Alfredo Villanueva, who noted that this diligence will accompany the deputy to the Regional Legislative Council, Juan Carlos Figarella.

"We want to make clear that the National Assembly, approved an item to cancel the Conversion, more than four thousand miners were canceled and only to twenty percent, so this deception liable to Rodolfo Sanz, minister of Mibam, to Rodolfo Vilchez, director of Mines and Mirna Munoz, president of the Mission Piar, nobody else, "said Alfredo Villanueva, noting that this situation with the problems caused by these workers who carry more than twenty days go do all kinds of needs versus the Bank headquarters of Venezuela, are waiting for them fulfill that promise.

Police prevented a clash

Shortly before eight o'clock in the morning, when miners put padlocks on the doors of the Bank of Venezuela, on the Paseo Orinoco, where they twenty days, came from a rich men and women who identified themselves as vendors and launched dirty water and fuel overnight in places where they were launching a fierce fight, came a platoon of police with rifles in their hands and prevented unpredictable events, because they had heard explosions.

It was in such confusion that EUDISED Guzman, Lourdes Soto, Jose Salas, Carlos Monterrey, Manuel Camacho and Eusebio Mata, said that since twenty days their businesses remain closed, because its spaces are occupied by miners, who come from there to suffer serious problems economic, and therefore are willing to lend to these people, because otherwise we are going to starve their children.

"This situation has become unbearable and we have come to the conclusion that it's time to act still confronting the consequences, because in truth no longer endure more," warned the vendors, who added that the case was presented as the authorities and the answer does not satisfy.

"The trade loses billions"

The engineer John Zakuro, president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industries of Bolivar state, yesterday raised an emergency before the gravity of the situation, before the close of business establishments in the Paseo Orinoco and the adjacent street and Venezuela, for 20 days , Leaving a balance of three billion daily, which is exacerbated, if taken into account in November and December, when sales are increasing. Juan Zakuro, who was accompanied by Fernando Cepeda, Libardo Perez, Jorge Robles, and Jairo Aziz, directors of the regional business association, also said that in the establishments of the Paseo Orinoco, Venezuela and adjacent street, their owners have been concerned about comments referred to looting and other acts that violate the peace and tranquility bolivarense of the community.