Bolivar workers protest: Las Cristinas and Brisas del Cuyuni projects have remained paralyzed for the last five years

VHeadline Venezuela News reports: 'Mineros del Sur' (Southern Miners) representatives in southeastern Venezuela say that government agencies are doing nothing to help alleviate a situation where the Las Cristinas and Brisas del Cuyuni projects have remained paralyzed for the last five years, unemployment at 98% affecting more than 19,000 local inhabitants who are finding it increasingly difficult to survive without the intervention of government organizations to resolve the situation.

The situation has been exacerbated with recent evictions of small-scale and artesanal miners, only adding to unemployment with foreign interests seeking to seize gold mines.

Sifontest miner Julio Amoreti says that artesanal mining is no longer functioning in the area and surface gold is increasingly scarce ... "we do not have jobs and we feel that we are being put to the wall ... we need these projects to begin hiring people since there are so many unemployed in Bolivar State ... any news would be an encouragement, because it affects everyone here and we need financial help to continue to survive."

Another miner, Arlet Finol, is quoted in the local media as saying that the population is calling on State Governor Francisco Rangel Gomez to do something about the alarming situation. He says "we want to remind Rangel Gomez that when he was president of the CVG he approached us to ask the parish for support to get the projects started ... now, since he became Governor, he has not even visited the communities. Now we're asking him to help us!"

"What is at stake is the welfare of 22 sectors which do not have even the most basic services ... bad or non-existent lighting, dilapidated sewers and lack of drinking water just in this parish ... no communities are exempt from these problems in the Guayana region."

There is also an increased problem with diseases that cry out for medical attention from the central government ... there's been a wave of malaria that has gripped the area and the locals say they have simply been forgotten about and neglected ... they can only live in the hope that someone will come along to solve the massive problems they face daily to keep alive ... there are almost 19,000 people who are at risk of contracting malaria without proper preventative measures being taken.

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