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Weekly Report - 17 March 2016 (WR-16-11)
VENEZUELA: Governor under pressure over Tumeremo miners
Opposition politicians including María Corina Machado and Deputy Américo De Grazia (La Causa Radical) have called for the resignation of the long-serving governor of Bolívar state, Francisco Rangel, of the ruling Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV), over his handling of the case involving the abduction and murder by a local gang of some two dozen informal miners from the local town of Tumeremo.
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