According to the Center for Ecological Research of Venezuela, illegal mining gained ground in Bolivar state in 2014, increasing by 40% compared to 2013, but 2015 has been glimpsed a decrease in the lawlessness that is handled in these areas, evidenced in the records of productivity at the national treasury and killings in recent months.

There are five plans that the Government has implemented against illegal mining, most recently, the Presidential Commission for the Protection, Development and Integral Promotion of Mineral lawful activity in the region of Guyana. Since 2003 the Plan Piar Mission Piar and Mining Restructuring Plan Caura were implemented.

Besides the mafia, organized crime, the anxiety in the population and impunity, the State has failed to collect millions product leakage minerals not remain in the country's reserves dollars.

For the deputy of the National Assembly, member of the Committee on Energy, Oil and Mining, Américo De Grazia, the underlying problem has been the criminalization of mining, claiming that beyond giving a solution, has served for extortion and corruption, which says no senior officials involved, who used the mafias as collectors items.

"The government freckle guard, denied assuming you do not know what's happening, and believe that criminalizing mining are supposedly protecting the environment. All this has brought a string of errors. An error is expropriate fuel chains, on purpose to reduce smuggling ... after four years the opposite has happened ... fuel consumption and smuggling has grown too, as two liters of gasoline at these sites cost 150 bolivars, more than the international market price, "he explains.

No diamonds, no transparency
De Grazia states that according to the annual report and has presented the National Executive, "the diamond disappeared as a source of income in Venezuela, there is no input of diamond for anything, does that mean that the mining activity Diamond does not exist? No, quite the contrary, but there are ways by red ... that can not be done without knowledge of the national executive because they are the ones who are in control of the Armed Forces. "

According to British newspaper The Guardian, in 2006 Venezuela reported production of 16 000 981 carats a Kimberly Process, certification system created in 2003 to control the trade in rough diamonds and so-called "blood diamonds" from entering the market, finance paramilitary vigilante groups, armed conflicts, etc. As in several African countries.

In 2008, the Venezuelan government withdrew from the Kimberly Process in retaliation for complaints of directors of this international body, which accused the Venezuelan government of violating the requirements. Two weeks ago, the ministry reversed the decision and announced the signing of the agreement again to Scheme Kimberly Process Certification so we can offer them in international markets.

The latest production report that records Venezuela before the World Diamond Council dates back to 2009 7730.37 carats, with production between 2004 and 2009 was 8.2 million.

In addition to the leak by use of diamond, De Grazia notes that "the only gold that enters the national treasury is produced under the shadow of suspicion, Minerven, because it does not understand how having 700 workers in 2006 produced 480 kilos of Monthly gold, and had other companies producing gold, and now having an absolute monopoly with 6000 workers produce 78-80 kilos monthly sparsely gold. "

In his view, gold production is being fulfilled but not reported to the state, with the complicity of government officials. "In the last three years have you given it five robberies in Minerven, even when it is guarded by the armed forces," he said.

The director of the Central Bank of Venezuela, José Salamat Khan, in an interview with the Correo del Caroní said that at the end of 2014 only gold production of 800 kilograms before the BCV reported when the estimate was 20 tons.

Deputy insists that the criminalization of mining has been used as an excuse for extortion, planting weapons, paramilitary groups, create gold mafias, which have resulted in the struggles between gangs, which "have not how to solve it now."