Miners call for reviving the conversion
Section - Qty. Bolivar
Written by IG
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 23:32
More than 500 miners showed up in the Plaza Bolivar, the capital bolivarense, to require the State Government to intervene in speeding up the conversion call mining.

This was reported by Santiago Ledezma, who is a miner, and on behalf of his colleagues reported that since 2008 the national government has not complied with this conversion.

It is important to note that this program will benefit thousands of miners, who in 2006 were evicted from their place of work to the Bolivarian Armed Force.

"President Hugo Chavez pledged to us to cancel at first 10 000 Bolivars. That was later increased to 15 000 Bolivars per miner who was banished from the areas where they operated the gold and diamond mining, "said Ledesma.

This appropriation was the anchor for the miners evacuate without resistance, the territory was declared as a protection for the preservation of the environment.

Ledezma recalled that the money the workers of the mining in Bolivar state, first studied the possibility of another source of income where your health and life itself is not exposed to much danger of work in these areas that could reach to be hostile.

"We were told that that claim could mount other businesses more sustainable. But we have five years on and with their arms crossed because many of us do not know anything other than mining, "he said.

More than five thousand miners have not received your credit, the conversion product of mining. Only one group of miners who were beneficiaries in 2006.

According to President Chavez government has canceled all mining conversion, as Ledezma competent national authorities on this issue have diverted resources approved for the miners.

Among the miners who attended the protest are those from La Paragua, El Manteco, Mariposa, El Callao and 88 who were repressing the regional director of the Mission Piar, Alfredo Villanueva, at a meeting held in yesterday with Governor Francisco Rangel Gomez.

Depending on this conversation, the miners will intensify their protest, or simply be waiting for a response from the Government. IG