VHeadline Venezuela News reports: Patria Para Todos (PPT) National Assembly Deputy Laura Vals has just ended a press conference at the National Assembly where she has denounced Crystallex for "corruption" and says it (Crystallex) has been "involved with the local government in Bolivar State" in allegedly "dirty deals."
Deputy Vals was following up on on an intervention by fellow PPT deputy Pastora Medina to denounce a series of corrupt acts and "funny business" between the local government in Bolivar State and the Canadian mining company Crystallex.
Deputy Vals told the AN that "Crystallex has their hands filled with dirty business" and both she and Medina have asked the National Assembly to carry out an immediate investigation. They also condemned the actions of Bolivar State Government (under newly re-elected State Governor Francisco Rangel Gomez) for NOT ordering the immediate release of the Mayor-elect of Sifontes municipality, Carlos Chancellor, who remains in jail.
PPT in Bolivar State are asking PODEMOS ("We Can") to form a united front to fight Crystallex and set up a powerful opposition to Governor Rangel Gomez who had been seen as having no chance of re-election in last Sunday's vote. The democratic opposition had decided to support Andres Velazquez, while PODEMOS, PPT and the Venezuelan Communist Party-PCV had supported support Rojas Suarez.
Recriminations are flying through the air in claims that if only Un Nuevo Tiempo (UNT) had listened to PODEMOS, Rangel Gomez would have lost by double digits.
According to sources close to President Chavez' PSUV, Rangel Gomez' election result really impressed PSUV election mogul General Muller Rojas, who has told Chavez NOT to waste time with Bolivar State ... which has gained Rangel Gomez a "grace period" within "Chavismo" in a political career that was otherwise on the skids.
Podemos, PPT and PCV now say that Rangel Gomez is going to use his "new-found election capital" to push his "friends" at Crystallex leaving losing candidate Andres Velasquez (a former CVG president) extremely angry with Podemos and saying "they have done more for Chavez now, than they ever did when they were aligned with him."
Breaking away from celebrating Thanksgiving with his family in the United States, a somewhat exasperated Crystallex International Corporation vice president A. Richard Marshall told VHeadline Venezuela News, in a telephone interview, that "it's more of the same old thing! ... how many times are they going to call for a National Assembly investigation? ... we have been cleared of any misdeeds, several times already! ... their gripe is about (Sifontes Mayor-elect) Carlos Chancellor being held in prison ... we didn't put him there! ... the Venezuelan government did that!"
The breaking news comes on the heels of news released earlier today that Spokane (USA-Washington State) based Gold Reserve is about to abandon its claim of ownership to a concession at Las Brisas del Cuyuni and move its attention to gold mining resources elsewhere outside of Venezuela.
Meanwhile, Vancouver-based Rusoro Mining is keeping a close-knit silence on developments at its 50/50 socialist joint venture with the Venezuelan government at the La Camorra gold mine in El Callao which they have taken over after USA-Idaho-based Hecla Mining abandoned the site and Venezuela several months ago.
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