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“Minerven has too many enemies and I interest”
Monday, 09 of May of 2011

The loss in the production is “a consequence of unemployment realised in 2010”, emphasizes Luis Herrera, who also admits that the bureaucratic ties are many that they prevent to lead the company to the yield.


Natalie Garci'a
Photo William Urdaneta

Herrera criticized the designation of a technical commission for Minerven and the suitability of heads that it, Franklin Skates

When the paralyzation of CVG Minerven turns two weeks, his president Luis Herrera breaks silence to deny the accusations in his against and indicating to the unions like the “guilty” of the diminution of the production.

“With this it has been clear that Minerven has many enemies and I interest”, a balance of the 2010 production expressed Herrera when showing.

According to the picture, the 2010 paralyzation generated a loss of 72.797.607 of bolivars; to this number it adds to him like main causes of the deviations of the production: the inoperativity of 73.514.825 less than equipment that caused entrance; and the deficiency of consumptions, with 81.322.719 in losses.

Altogether these three factors influenced so that it was stopped producing 1,396, 5 kilograms of gold. What meant a hard blow for the administration of the miner, who until recently presented/displayed blue numbers.

“We produce our own budget and if we have problems that is seen in box. We have tried to accede to resources of the State through credits to make a recovery and for the development of projects, but we have run into with the bureaucracy, whereupon they close the doors to us, but we still have much potential to be useful”.

It explained the manager that the responsibilities by inflict casualties - it reiterates, because of the unions “they have been in impunity, and the socialism is not constructed with impunity”.

It noticed that for 2010 the company interposed a denunciation before the Public Ministry by the happened thing, but by “orders superiors” the case was left thus, reason why it suggested exists the possibility that again the union leadership is called to button, but by legal route.

Factors of being able
It also announced that beyond the trade union subject there are two existing realities and that they are after the present situation of Minerven and the other companies. First “it is the external conspiracy of the Capitalism” and second “that sectors infiltrated within bureaucracy follow the game Capitalism”.

Herrera informed that in spite of the confliction managed to already cancel the 50 percent of the retroactive one to the daily list, and to the monthly list “if everything leaves as we have predicted” they will deposit in his accounts between Monday and Tuesday to him of this week.

“The certain thing is that here there is a background that extends the labor thing, and it is not the first time we lived that it. One is lumpen that it has put under the rest of the workers. For that reason we called to the labor mass to that it is gotten up as of this Monday (today) to the activities”.

It also criticized the designation of a technical commission that is headed by Franklin Skates, “that the ounce gave to block “B” of Minerven to a fixed price by 20 years of 300 dollars, to a transnational American”.

Regional mining geometry is changing. Luis Herrera maintained that president Hugo Chavez already realized vice “” that there are after Minerven and of the other auriferous concessions of the South zone and for that reason he at your service passed all that to gold of the Vice-presidency of the Republic.

Before this new panorama, it indicated that it is optimistic because when happening the state one to the vice-presidency, the projects to increase the production and to attract new investments will have majors possibilities.

Walked way
As far as its management, it said that “we are three years old, we do not try to be interminable, but in this time we have been with an interesting rate. Little by little we can be recovering, if we surpassed the obsolescence of equipment. They were to us two of the main crowns of the plant Remevin and Caratal; the one of Remevin it was already installed and we are waiting for the arrival of the other crown of England for the equipment, with this we would be increasing the levels again”.

In relation to the increase of the list of less than thousand employees in 2 thousands 464, indicated Herrera that this one is part of the social character that must prevail in the auriferous one. “We have increased in benefits but we have decreased in operations, the goal is again to reclaim the production levels so that these guarantee the fulfillment of all the benefits, of everything when we offer to the workers and the communities, because Minerven is of all the Venezuelans”.

As far as the new projects it expressed that the Central bank of Venezuela (BCV) could be supporting for the accomplishment of two plans, first of processing of the tails, that is to say, the process residues that still have mineral and the reactivation of the levels from the 1 to the 4 of Colombia Well.

With this, Minerven would extend its horizons and guaranteeing the future of the deposits. Besides the possible support of the BCV, the directive it is in contact with the enemy with a Russian company so that it jointly injects resources in the sector with the state one for the development of other more ambitious projects. A Chinese group even crossed the facilities of Minerven in the middle of present unemployment.

Mining optimism

The president of Minerven, Luis Herrera, thinks that “yes the recovery of the company is possible”, but through investments and of the recovery of the operational capacity as much of the plants Caratal and Peru like of the other concessions that are under their trusteeship.

“We have potential and capacity of indebtedness to make the things. Yes we can and we have in addition many projects. Right now we are the representatives of Venezuela in Ecuador where it is the company Marshal Sucre; we are going to put one of those companies in the country, because as well as we worked with Ecuadorian they can come to work with us, also we are going to ask legally to Breezes of the Cuyuní. Minerven has all the perspective of the world. That yes déjennos to work”.

“They are not of Minerven”

Dixon Riera, general manager of CVG Minerven, clarified that the unemployed ones that were chained in it soothes of the corporation “do not belong to the miner” since it has been reviewed publicly in some mass media.

It reiterated that the situation provoked against the CVG has to do with another different conflict and that until now the unique difficulty that faces the company is strike that carries out some union leaders in the Pebble, in soothes main of the auriferous one.

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