Luis Blanco, who is part of the special Administrative Board at the Río Turbio sugar mill in Lara state, announced the start of refining operations for 2,000 tons of whole cane type mascabado (brown sugar) last Wednesday, October 12.
He assured that with the participation of 430 workers, said central is active and the working mass is participating in the productive direction.
“Here is a working class committed to this sugar mill following it was abandoned by its former owners,” Blanco said.
Describing that one of the processes that they have managed to update, since 2020 when they assumed its management, is that of thermo generation.
Therefore, they recovered a plant that processes the raw water that is then passed to the boilers where the necessary steam is generated to move the turbogenerators that provide electrical independence.
In this way, -added Blanco- “we will be guaranteeing self-generation, the same as any other plant in the world”.
Blanco stressed that it is an achievement of the workers throughout this maintenance process of the different areas of the sugar processing plant, whose headquarters are located in the Chorobobo sector, Palavecino municipality (Cabudare).
Reiterating that it “was abandoned by the old management that squandered the Nation’s resources and vilified workers with more than 20 and 30 years at the service of the production unit.”
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He congratulated the 430 parents (workers) who “remained firm, at the forefront and believed in the leading participation of the working class.”
Likewise, he expressed recognition to the National Government regarding which he said: “Thanks to President Nicolás Maduro for trusting the workers, from here, we will fulfill the objective of agri-food independence… We are committed to ensuring that it ends up on the table of Venezuelans”, White stressed.
cane grinding
On the other hand, he called on peasants, small and medium-sized sugarcane producers to bring their production closer to the aforementioned production unit in the coming harvest.
“Feel confident that the power plant will be grinding the cane that they are planting,” said the spokesperson for the workers who is part of the Administrative Board of the Río Turbio Power Plant.
He also commented that on the eve of the sugar cane grinding process next month from December to January 2023, the fact of resuming refining with 2,000 tons of brown sugar means “the rebirth of this great industry.”
Working class makes alliance
Miller Guevara, state spokesman for the Workers’ Productive Councils (CPT) valued the dedication of the workers in the recovery of machinery and spaces for grinding, centrifuge, water treatment and boilers of the Río Turbio power plant.
Next, he highlighted that in the reactivation of the plant, an alliance was launched between the working class and the Las Nieves packaging company.
Guevara, as a spokesman also for the Bolivarian Federation of Socialist Workers of the City, Country and Fisheries (Fbtsccp) congratulated the workers for their organization, management and direction within the Palavecinense sugar factory.
Recalling that on December 20, 2020, the Vice Minister of Food, Gabriel Emilio Pérez Ramírez, together with the working class, took possession of said sugar production unit.
With information from: AND
