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Miners threaten hunger strike in Guayana City

posted on Oct 11, 2009 07:59AM
Miners threaten hunger strike in Guayana City
Writing by Blood-red Yasmin/Photos: Elke Door
Sunday, 11 of October of 2009
City Bolivar). - The possibility of the beginning of a new action of protest, on the part of a representation of more than two thousand miners of the organization, who remain in the hope of the payment of the humanitarian aid, corresponding to the reconversion process; as well as of a series of offered social benefits at the time by minister Rodolfo Sanz, the morning of yesterday was outstanding by Alfredo Villanueva, after the culmination of a special meeting realised in the environs of the offices of the Ministry of the Atmosphere of City Bolivar.

Alfredo Villanueva, better well-known in the mining sector of the organization as “ Morrocoy ” assured that the call to this meeting, where participated around 100 people, became with the aim of making decisions on the actions to execute itself as of the next Wednesday, day in which they hope to have some favorable uprising on this case, on the part of the members of the Commission of Social Development of the National Assembly.

According to the explained thing by Villanueva, an increasing nonconformity in the mining population of the organization, because in spite of the long ones given to the governmental organisms for the search of solutions, the time continues happening and the answers continue without appearing, not only as for the payment of the aid to about 2,509 miners that have his tickets, but also in the part of approval of pensions, residential developments exists, credits of development in diverse areas and of course, the referred thing to the generation of uses, that allow them to subsist and to improve their quality of life and the one of their families.

Forceful actions

The results of the assembly maintained, according to the indicated thing by the declaring one, were in the first place to wait for the proposal that the deputy Oscar Figuera, president of the Commission of Development of the National Assembly is going to them to do the day Wednesday; whereas the term for minister Rodolfo Sanz will culminate Friday, day in which a representation of the miners will move until a site strategic of Guayana City to initiate forceful protests, because they are already tired of as much governmental ridicule.

These actions, indicated Villanueva, could include the beginning of a hunger strike, which asserted delay is respected by the national organisms, because the same besides serving as flag as its particular fight, will be oriented to indicate an absolute endorsement to the workers of the CVG and including a Rubén González and some of the employees of Ferrominera, who they come being white from the criminalization actions of the protests in the country.

To already culminate it located Alfredo Villanueva to the representatives of the Office of the public prosecutor and the General Contraloría from the Republic to that they order an investigation around the project of the levee of the population of the Paragua, which not only was paralyzed from February, but also that it has been collapsed by parts, because the materials used for their construction were not of optimal quality; while it once again alerted on the free one to galopar of the corruption in the Mission To cheep.

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