The Bolivian miner Carlos Mamani, who remained trapped more than two months at the site of San Jose in northern Chile, along with 32 colleagues, was welcomed as a hero Monday by President Evo Morales, who offered him a job working in the state oil company YPFB.
“I’m thankful I did not expect so,” said Mamani from the Quemado Palace, where he met with the president, who handed him a Chilean flag signed by all his fellow prisoners.At this meeting the manager offered him a job in the delegation of YPFB in Cochabamba, in the eponymous department , as chief of motor transport, which would charge about $ 1,000 a month, ten times that the minimum wage in Bolivia.
“President Morales gave me a secure job, a house,” confirmed the 21-year-old said while fixed his residence permanently in Bolivia when it resolves some issues in Chile.”I have had enough to do and a pending lawsuit,” regarding the company which owns the mine, San Esteban, whose owners have repeatedly expressed the fragility of their finances, to the extent that it might file for bankruptcy, making jeopardize the payment of wages and settlements for their employees.
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