The actions undertaken in the Caura Plan, that it looks for to end the illegal mining in the river of the same name, brought about the annoyance of the orerators of deposits that, this Thursday, burned a vehicle.

Natalie Garci'a
Photo William Urdaneta

The illegal mining is removed from the Caura Stop for two weeks

The aspiring to the parliamentarians, weeks back had made serious denunciations against the military of the Army, who apparently were failing to fulfill their function and taking advantage the illegal activity.

Inhabitants of the locality, whom they prefer to maintain the anonymity, informed that the burning fire of the car took place in the fluvial port of Maripa, where a good number of orerators of deposits concentrated east Thursday. The spirits so were heated that some of the affected ones went until the Mayorship and threatened several civil servants.

It is possible to remember that in the 2006, when a similar operation of the mining reconversion began within the framework, the house of the then mayor Juan Carlos Figarella, was burned by the demonstrators, accused who it to be one of the most important gold buyers of the place.

The denunciations were so serious that the Legislative Council of Estado Bolívar (CLEB) organized an extraordinary session in the zone and anointed again to the mayor, misestimating the signallings of the miners.

To four years of that incident, in the town of Maripa a similar situation, this time with the wife of Juan Carlos Figarella appears, Amelia Falcon.

Added to the event of the burning fire of the car, the evacuated ones met to write up a letter in which they ask president Hugo Chavez to visit the zone and to meet with them, in order to look for a new occupation to them that allows them to feed its families.

Not having answers, the miners are had to undertake more forceful actions as the closing of the bridge on the Caura - that unites to the municipalities Sucre and Cedeño- and the taking of the facilities of the Mayorship.