No regional or municipal authority has ruled on the demonstration held by miners from the El Cacho San Isidro mine, in Tumeremo, since Friday, April 14, after the eviction of the same
Jhoalys Siverio | Caroní Mail
For this Tuesday, April 18, an open town hall was convened with residents of the El Callao, Roscio and Sifontes municipalities, who denounce arbitrary actions by the military and the Government against those who carry out small-scale mining in the south of Bolívar state.
On Friday, 15 miners from the El Cacho San Isidro mine, in Tumeremo, denounced that they were evicted by order of a company, about which no further details are known, and that arrived about six months ago to settle in the area.
That Friday they protested at the height of the Tumeremo passenger terminal. Since then they have maintained the road closure of trunk 10, which connects the municipalities of southern Bolívar and with Brazil.
The miners are also calling for the intervention of the Venezuelan Mining Corporation (CVM) and the dismissal of its president, Carlos Osorio.
“We ask that the El Cacho mine be returned to us. Now they threaten us through social networks that they are going to arrest us. Not only do we have problems in the mine, we also have paving problems. The streets are useless, the water is insufficient, the electricity goes out whenever it feels like it. We ask that you give us a solution. In the El Cacho mine they have attacked us, destroyed our camps, Mr. Governor, get up,” demanded a miner.
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The former mayor of Sifontes, Carlos Chancellor, stated that the miners in the south demand respect and justice. He denounced that “the military also showed up in the San Juan de Venamo indigenous community, located on the border with the territory in claim to Guayana Esequiba.”
«The unity of the miners begins to show itself with an open town hall in El Callao, to address the same critical issues of this conflict that demands solutions now. The mining towns got tired of turning their backs for the ‘revolution’ to hit them with arbitrary evictions, with ignorance of the rights of small-scale mining, to legal work, without abusive abuses and expropriations of their mines. Enough of rattling, ignoring the rights of tradition and the mining legality of the people of these municipalities. No to the expropriations of the rights of the people, the miners shout”, he added.
Chancellor warned that mines assigned to indigenous communities are also under threat.
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The Proyecto Guayana party ruled in relation to the closure of trunk 10, stressing that it is a “fair fight at a difficult and worrying moment, both for the Government and for the miners and many merchants who are affected by this situation of not look for a solution to the problem”.
They highlight in a statement that the miners “today suffer the implementation of a mechanism that will affect the production of gold in the south of the Bolívar state due to the errors of the Government and the agreements with many alliances and foreign countries that they signed with the Venezuelan State.”
In the Proyecto Guayana statement, the murder of councilor José Atienza came to light. Although there are no further details about the case, they presume that it was a hit man.
Videos released by the protesters show that the miners allow vehicular passage for emergencies. They also assure that they will remain in protest until they have an answer.
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