The mines of the Guayana region in southern Venezuela have become the source of an illusion of wealth for the most vulnerable population that turns to them in search of fortune, ending up trapped in a vicious circle of slavery-like […]
Members of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) and alleged illegal miners clashed on September 13 in the Atabapo municipality of the southern Venezuelan state of Amazonas, where the military is conducting the mass expulsion of people engaged in the […]
Indigenous communities denounce the increasing presence of illegal mining in the Yapacana National Park, which pollutes the Orinoco River with mercury, killing fish and poisoning the water they drink The indigenous communities located in the vicinity of the Yapacana National […]
The true guidelines that define the proposal to defend the Amazon, promoted by Nicolás Maduro and Gustavo Petro at COP27, will be known over the course of a year in which Venezuela is also expected to commit to expelling the […]
The indigenous organizations Kuyunu (that represents the communities along the Ventuari river) and Kuyujani (representing indigenous peoples of the Caura River and the upper course of the Orinoco River, including the Ye’kwana and Sánema communities in the Manapiare municipality of […]
The gold reserves of the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) fell 75% between 2006 and 2020, a figure that contrasts with the vertiginous rise of mining in the southeast of the country The decline of the Venezuelan oil industry, together […]
Indigenous communities of the Caura river denounce the murder of two indigenous people in the “Bullita” mine, located in Salto La Puerta, at the confluence of Yuruaní with Caura rivers. Members of the Caura Indigenous Guard reported that on Wednesday […]
