Now were talking...
US-based multinationals and others have for generations been exploiting Venezuela's resources and labor on-the-cheap, aided by Venezuelan traitors who have been pocketing bribes to look the other way on environmental issues, social issues, labor exploitation, violence, kidnapping and especially taxation.
This has been the typical and traditional modus operandi of major multinational exploiters not only in Venezuela, but throughout South America and around the world ... but finally, Venezuela, along with Bolivia and Ecuador (and hopefully Nicaragua in the near future) is taking decisive action against these criminals.
VHeadline states, "...a series of abuses against employees who had been thoroughly humiliated and forced to strip naked ... we were getting only a miserable Bs.F.390 per fortnight and we never received any production bonus although Hecla has been producing gold for almost six years..."
Abusers! Gringos go home and stay home.
How would you like to get stripped naked at work? How would you like to make $93 per week when the cost of living in Venezuela is almost as high as it is in North America?
Hecla's mission statement states:
- "Hecla Mining Company is a precious metals company. Our business is to create value for our shareholders by discovering, acquiring, developing, producing and marketing mineral resources at a profit."
Profit!
According to an article published on January 10, 2005 on Bnet:
- "Hecla's President and Chief Executive Officer, Phillips S. Baker, Jr., said, "This will more than double our land position in Venezuela to over 150 square miles in three districts. The Guariche gold district is separate and distinct from the El Dorado and El Callao districts where we already hold ground, giving us the best land position in the country. Guariche has many of the same high-grade vein characteristics as the other two prolific gold districts, and in addition, a potentially large surface deposit has been previously identified on the property. This extremely prospective area has had little modern exploration. We have been very successful in Venezuela with our La Camorra mine and are now developing our second mine, Mina Isidora, in the El Callao area. The host rock at Guariche is the same as in the historic El Callao gold district. We believe in the prolific geology in Venezuela, and expect to be mining there for a long time."
Talking about being forced to strip naked. Here's another one. There is a running-shoe factory in Caracas which people commonly refer to as 'La Puma,' where they manufacture for Puma Sports. The owner, Hans (a German apparently), is also one of these tyrant-exploiters. Some time back some inventory disappeared … something equivalent to a few pairs of running shoes. After the event, he forced all employees with access to the stock rooms to strip every day before going home after a day's work. This became company policy. I don't know how much he pays the laborers, but I doubt it is much. I mean, if an employer can force people to strip for fear of losing a few measly pair of shoes, then one can easily image that such an employer is capable anything.
From my research, this is their contact information:
- Puma Venezuela
- Inversiones Nobilis C.A.
- H.Seelinger / Urbguay, c.la Pedrera
- Las Minas de Baruta App. 88151
- 1084-A Caracas Venezuela
- Tel.+58 93 6297
- Fax +58 941 8490
- Inversiones Nobilis C.A.
Anyways ... I am very happy that Venezuela has the guts to act against those western cheap-labor exploiters and their cronies and copycats who enrich themselves at the expense of the innocent hard-working human being, perpetuating profit, poverty and charity.
Viva Venezuela!
Oscar Heck
oscarheck111@yahoo.com
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Venezuela is facing the most difficult period of its history with honest reporters crippled by sectarianism on top of rampant corruption within the administration and beyond, aided and abetted by criminal forces in the US and Spanish governments which cannot accept the sovereignty of the Venezuelan people to decide over their own future.
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