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While state industry gold plummets, illegal activity in Bolivar state flowers. In the last decade the government has implemented unsuccessfully four plans to organize the gold industry in the country.

The installation of the Presidential Commission for the Protection, Development and Promotion of Integral Mineral Lawful Activity in the Region of Guyana, to be held today in Guasipati (municipality Roscius), will be the fifth attempt by the government to end the illegal activity, has six months left 41 dead confrontation between gangs and millions of dollars to the country not reported.

According to Decree No. 841, published in Official Gazette No. 40.376, the commission on Wednesday installed Minister of State for Guayana Integral Development (REDI-Guiana), Nicia Maldonado's mission is to develop and implement a "action plan" to address "the problems raised by the practice of illegal mining in the Guayana region."

The rest of the team will be comprised of the governors of the Bolivar and Amazonas states, the head of the State Defense Integral Guiana Commander Zodi Bolivar and Amazonas, mayors of municipalities in the Guayana region indicating Minister or REDI Minister of Guyana.

Also form part of the group a commissioner of the ministries of Popular Power for the Interior, Justice and Peace; for the Environment, Indigenous Peoples, for Communes and Culture; | a regional director of ministries of Popular Power for Health, for Tourism, Oil & Mining, and a commissioner of the state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela, SA (PDVSA).

One by one

Piar Plan. emerged in 2003 with the aim of including the small-scale mining sector in the five areas covered by the Plan for Economic and Social Development Office (Economic, Social, Political, Territorial and International), "preserving where possible the environmental balance. "

Mission Piar. Later, in July 2004, we changed the name to Mission Piar "for the purpose of dignifying the quality of life of small-scale miners, and promoting rational use of resources organized and attached to environmental regulations." The idea was to encourage other sources of employment such as agriculture and fisheries.

Mining. Conversion In August 2006, the Government undertakes the eviction of the miners in the Caroni basin. The Executive promised funding and a check of Bs 10,000 to help 6000 072 miners who worked in the area.

Plan Caura. arises In 2010 another attempt to evict miners Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro. According to the head of the Strategic Defense Integral Guayana Region, Henry Rangel Silva, 20 thousand people were displaced from the area and were rescued 40 thousand hectares.

"It's a great accomplishment to know that there are no people destroying nature, destroying the jungle in these basins of these major rivers," he said in July 2010.

The Caura Plan was implemented to stop the environmental devastation caused by illegal mining and covered all areas of security and territorial defense, and environmental, cultural, social, geographic, military, economic and political.

This rescue program was supervised by a State Special Mayor headed by then Vice President Elias Jaua, who was assisted by a Board of Control and Supervision.

Another trial
failure of reorganization plans have resulted in a state of anarchy, whose greatest evidence is the 39 deaths reported in the last six months as a result of fighting for control of the mines.

The increase in violence happens alongside the dismantling of CVG Minerven processing plants in 2009 beat production record, and today are junk and debris.

An investigation of the UNEG reported that over 90% of workers in processing centers had levels of mercury (Hg) above alert level

Havoc

CVG Minerven maintains a service contract with a company of the Republic of Cuba for geological exploration of 47,000 meters of drilling concessions CVG Minerven.

Iran and the Republic of exploration and subsequent exploitation of gold in 5000 hectares in granting Amazing 17 is studied.

The state also administers 113 million bolivars for project implementation Sheet Metal in El Callao and Micronized carbonate in Cuba, under the Cuba-Venezuela agreement.

In Venezuela-Ecuador agreement executed an investment in shares of $ 63 million and a contribution to the joint venture with the Socialist Republic of Ecuador was made in the amount of $ 757 million to projects Phosphate, Iron and Gold .

In February 2012, President Hugo Chavez signed an agreement with China's Citic to develop the Las Cristinas project, one of the largest gold reserves in the world.