Vice President of CVG released detained for protesting mining in
Bolivar


Ciudad Bolivar, Nov 18. ABN .- After intervention by the authorities
of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (Fanbad) in Bolivar State,
was released late on Tuesday the executive vice president of the
Venezuelan Guayana Corporation (CVG), Alfredo Arcila, who had been held at the offices of the agency in Ciudad Bolivar from noon on Monday by artisanal miners.

Arcila had been detained along with five other officials from the
CVG, while trying to talk with a group of miners from a neighboring
town Raúl Leoni, who, in a violent manner, requiring representatives of the Ministry of People's Power for Basic Industry and Mining ( Mibam) to cancel a bond agreed during the process of eviction of illegal miners from the Caura River Basin and its conversion work on other activities not harm the environment.

Despite this payment had been announced for the day Thursday, 20, a group of miners took Mibam offices on Avenida Libertador Ciudad Bolivar and had held the officials, as well as a large number of minibuses and cars to public transport by passing this important road artery capital.

During the evening of Tuesday a committee of the Theater of
Operations 5 of Fanbad, led by the head of this military unit, Major
General Felix Antonio Velasquez, went to the site to talk with miners and encourage them to cease their attitude and wait Updated Thursday to receive your payment from the hands of the minister Rodolfo Sanz and Governor Francisco Rangel Gomez, as was officially announced over the weekend.

According to reports from the offices of Mibam, both Alfredo Arcila
and his colleagues were deprived of food and drinks from noon on
Monday, it had a strong box dehydration.

The group had been held under extremely uncomfortable at a checkpoint monitoring the headquarters of Mibam in the state capital, located at Avenida Libertador. At that same site, the protesters kept mineworkers more than 15 units of public transport and closed the passage of vehicles, causing a huge congestion in the area.

The governor of Bolivar, Francisco Rangel Gomez, had deplored during a radio interview this action by the miners and denounced the opposition candidate for governor, Andres Velasquez, as the sponsor of this violent protest.

The same complaint was upheld on Tuesday at a news conference by the Director of Mining Concessions of Mibam, Rodolfo Vilchez.

They noted that the retention of staff cevegistas was conducted by a group of miners manipulated by the opposition candidate Andres Velasquez.

He added that this action is not shared by most of the miners who
participated in the program of job retraining, who calmly await the
payment of its bonds next Thursday.

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