rusoro threatens to shut down...
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May 26, 2010 07:18AM
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Wednesday, 26 of May of 2010 |
The companies pertaining to the group Rusoro Mining, whose plants are distributed in the municipalities Callao and Sifontes, threaten paralyzing their activities in two months by the lack of sufficient financing that it allows them to cover his costs. Carlos Andres Monsalve ![]() Jose Manuel Rodriguez recommends the national Government to sit down to find a solution to the problem. Photo CAM
According to the measurement adopted by the BCV only the 30 remaining percent of the production can be sold for the export or to the internal market. As much the company as the unions assures that such reality prevents to cover the operative costs with the plants and the list. Before this situation representing trade union and the directive of fused the Producing Miner of Guayana (PMG), alerts that the production of auriferous material will be limited until August of the present year, causing a wave of unemployment in the south of Bolivar. In order to avoid a labor catastrophe the affected ones demand the same treatment that receive the companies of the State, that according to the measurement are forced to sell to the BCV the 50 percent of the production the rest to be removed to the international and internal market from small goldsmiths and jewelers. General uneasiness “This is a problem that it must be solved of integral form, the development of these towns is promoted with the mining industry. We have been discriminated with the resolution of the BCV where it establishes that at least 70% correspond to them to them, whereas the Government forces to us to sell to noncompetitive prices, below the expenses of production, this means that with this galloping inflation, in two months we go to the disinvestment and total paralyzation”. The manager of the miner alleged that they lodged the hope that the percentage of the inflation stayed during this year, but these went off, which has remarkably affected its structure of costs and operational system. “We cannot maintain the hiring collective of this 2010, we believed in the BCV that assured that the inflation was going away to maintain stable, but in two months we have noticed, how it has been increased until in a 5%. Also it contributes the difficult thing that it is to canalize the dollars of Cadivi, we have happened up to 14 months without currencies and we cannot acquire them in a parallel market, to buy our products”, emphasized Rodriguez. The presentante of the Rusoro company maintains that “we must seat to look for a solution to us, is to recognize that good will has existed, but everything has been of word. We have not had conversation tables, if they do not create in our words that make an audit technical”. Worried unions Red Eladio, president of the Union of Heavy Machineries and Civil Obras of the state Bolivar, affirmed that they are summoning all the workers to reject the state policy of commercialization of gold. “We have been discriminated, until with the acquisition of dollars, do not have spare parts for the work cars”, added. Caesar Rabostini, like contractor of PMG, criticism the low ones of the price of gold submissive the official exchange rate, standing out that is a punishment that affects the dependent companies of the main company. “We want a right treatment of equality, is everything what we asked”. Social work The representatives of Rusoro Mining emphasized that besides giving to use to almost three thousand people in the municipalities of the south of the state Bolivar, they have done great social work to the communities that go from services public to health, education and viable development. Of not having an agreement between the company and the Central bank of Venezuela all the programs that this transnational Russian takes ahead, who also works in mixed society with the Venezuelan State in the Isidora mines and the Camorra, will be seen seriously affected. |