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Message: China will invest more than $ 70 million in reviving Cerro Bolivar

China will invest more than $ 70 million in reviving Cerro Bolivar

posted on Jan 30, 2009 08:54AM
China will invest more than $ 70 million in reviving Cerro Bolivar


Caracas, Jan. 30 ABN .- The president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frías, announced that China will invest over 70 million dollars in the revival of mining operations at Cerro Bolivar, Bolivar state, which begins on Thursday of the week.

This was stated by Head of State, on Friday, during the act of activation of mining operations at Cerro Bolivar.

He stressed that, now, Venezuela is sinking into a crisis, as some opponents insist on saying, 'This act is a demonstration that the country is not in crisis. "

"While in other latitudes, a result of the crisis of capitalism, millions of workers fired in Venezuela, we will revive the mining sector, which will generate new jobs, with wages and labor rights guaranteed" he said.

The President said that the holding in this mountain began in 1954 and was closed in 1997 when the Washington consensus' and the gulf in Venezuela, a country auction. "

The Head of State suggested that raising a museum on the hill Bolivar iron, because this space is a national monument that incorporates much of the political and economic history of Venezuela, "we need to recover historical memory, and much, we hurts.

"It hurts to think about how it took this wealth, how much oil is carried on the east coast of Lake Maracaibo in Zulia state, on the part of transnational North, for example. We left a shattered country, a product of colonialism, "he said.

For 10 years, "we are starting a project, and I came to not betray the people, but to fulfill a mandate. We are just beginning to recover, to install the foundations of the great long-term project that is already in the Constitution, as is the Simón Bolívar National Project Plan and the first socialist nation 2007-2013, "he stressed.

On the effects of the global crisis, the President said it was a topic that was discussed during his visit to Belem, Brazil, during the World Social Forum, where he spoke to accelerate integration and to take measures "to protect us from this crisis, and acts like nothing better than this to move forward in our development model, as an integration mechanism. "

"This increased investment, the best antidote to the crisis. This is a step forward and not remain trapped in the crisis, "he added.
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