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Photo Armando Rivas Alfredo Villanueva, a spokesman for the former workers of mining in the La Paragua, Angostura municipality, said yesterday it expected to meet on November 2 with Minister Jose Khan and members of the Social Development Committee of the National Assembly , not only to discuss the outstanding payments are still within the so-called humanitarian aid, but also around the implementation of promised social programs within the mining conversion.
Villanueva stressed that this meeting is planned to evaluate the situation of the miners evicted by the implementation of the Plan Caura, which accounted for no less than eight thousand people affected.
The representative noted that mining has already been delivered to the Commission for Social Development of the National Assembly in Caracas, the refined data of miners who were waiting to be compensated in 2008, reaching about five thousand people. Villanueva said some proposals in the meeting held in Ciudad Guayana with the Commissioner of Mines, Laura Paredes, referring to the controlled mining and sustainable development of this activity in the region. (CM)
