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Mining resumed protests...

posted on Jan 13, 2010 07:19AM


Mining resumed protests
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

The miners who left the profession to focus their hopes on the national government's promise of a better future, think not falter this year in their struggle, and as proof of this, on Tuesday went back to the streets to protest.

The miners blocked the road to claim artery Mibam responses. Photo Armando Rivas
Within hours of Tuesday morning, former mineworkers staged a protest in the capital to demand answers bolivarense on payments remained outstanding, in the so-called conversion.

Protesters took a stretch of Avenida Libertador, at the height of the Regional Directorate of Environment and the Ombudsman, to claim and reject the negative that have kept the authorities to answer for a cancellation which was promised to the sector.

Alfredo Villanueva, a spokesman for former miners, explained the reasons for this event, which again leads to the street with hundreds of women and men who were evicted two years ago in the mining areas on a promise to be claimed socially and economically.

The spokesman spokesman became discontent of the miners, who retook the street protests, and castigated "the mean attitude of the minister Rodolfo Sanz" to address a situation, which is just as responsible to the holder of the Foundation Mission Piar .

A mockery
Villanueva said the fruitless efforts since last December have been made, through the intervention of the Governor of Bolivar State, have failed to answer. "We think this is a mockery to us and to the governor by the Mibam" said indignantly miner representative.

He warned that the protests remain to achieve the answers they are demanding payments, whose resources were diverted, "he repeated, and they have reported to the National Assembly. "We have evidence that those resources were diverted," he said Villanueva.

Amid the protest was filed Zaida Malave's lawyer, representing the Ombudsman, who tried to mediate with protesters, and where it was raised to the 15th of this month the agency will respond to the intermediary that performs at national. (CM)


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