VHeadline Venezuela News reports: Guayana regional newspapers are just breaking news that Environment (MinAmb) Vice Minister Merly Garcia has been formally dismissed from office after a late-Thursday executive meeting at which a series of complaints were presented by members of the Bolivar State Legislative Council and Venezuela's Council for Ecological Investigations (CIEV), related to alleged illegalities in the issuance of environmental permits to the Zamorana Cedena Cooperative as a result of which it is alleged that massive ecological destruction has been caused in the El Tigre and La Broma sectors of Cedeno municipality in southern Bolivar State.
A series of further dismissals are expected in the next few days as investigators probe allegations by National Guard (GN) Rural Command 89 that the Ministry's administrative executive for Area 7 in Upata, Edgardo Russo, illegally authorized the deforestation of huge areas of rain forest including 569,908 cubic meters of lumber by Aserradeo El Manteco at Rancho Quemao and a further 6,000 cubic meters of environmentally protected tree species at El Jobo in Roscio municipality in direct defiance of orders issued by the current Minister of Environment.
The sacking of controversial MinAmb Minister Ortega de Carrizalez' Vice Minister Merly Garcia has caused great confusion among senior staff at the Ministry but does NOT appear to have any relationship to environmental permitting for the Las Cristinas and Las Brisas del Cuyuni gold mining projects in the same area of southern Bolivar State.
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