El Callao mining crossbar
Saturday, December 13, 2008

Operators deposits of El Callao, evicted from Quassia, closed this Friday the entry and exit of people from the south to demand the payment of compensation promised by the Mibam. For five months this group is just asking for a cancellation and to give them alternative employment. Like the miners of La Paragua are upset and are ready to continue protesting in search of an effective response.

Natalie Garcia
Picture William Urdaneta

El Callao-A protest by miners on Friday he joined the manifestation of discontent against the new mayor of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) El Callao, Orlenia Scipio, who spoke with the demonstrators, claiming that allegedly there is no money for them, something that exalted further heated mood of the group, which already bear more than five months by claiming their status, without which until now have had a satisfactory response.

While the protest was happening, hundreds of people could not move to town, even on foot, since the operators of sites had a very restricted access regime and more than a bystander took his "meneada" by going against the will of the affected.

Luis Gomez, one of the miners, explained that "this is already a long time, the mayor said that nobody was to vote for her, it was God who put it there, but has not given his face for us ... we had with the elections and left the case engavetado, now tell us that there is real and this can not be. "

Fair
For his part, Jose Padron, one of the protesters, said that the company Agapov, who now operates the areas where they were evicted, gave 15 billion bolivars for the old payment to the miners but, in his view, not the Mibam it has distributed in its entirety. "They gave no money for compensation but to pay a fair that are about 50 million bolivars, so that 4 billion for social projects will not serve us, we are not mayors, who distributed the money to pay us."

Maglis Munoz said he was tired of the same, in five months have had no replies and the worst case is that they have no where to work. He added that penalty gave him what was happening in the Mayor of El Callao that "even the jobs are here ... here there is much unemployment and these corporations not leave us anything because the people who ship is outside. "

Also, Maria Chirinos, a mining leader, called simply to give them an answer on payments for being evicted from their places of work, because as a group and they were all gathered outside the CVG without having done anything, despite the innumerable work tables held until just a few weeks ago.

The "Chinese" Figueroa, also known leader in the area, asked the mayor to give Scipio the face with his mining town, knew well that voting in elections, believing in the promises and that at least the support, something that -- as it has not done so.

More protests

Last night after 10:00 miners still retained the crossbar in the village. On the outskirts National Guard and the Police of Bolivar state (PEB) guarding the trunk 10 to prevent the protest from spreading to this road.

It should be remember that the miners Quassia, like the mining town of Raúl Leoni, protagonizando months leading demonstrations in search of money that were promised and have not yet arrived. Despite that, in the continuing struggle to see whether the Government mercy on them this December and allows them to eat at least some hallacas.

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