Venezuela’s former president, Hugo Chavez, promised change for indigenous people. Shutterstock This hasn’t changed much under the Bolivarian governments since 1998.

Caracas, Oct 12 (EFE).- Members of Venezuela’s indigenous communities and chavismo supporters marched Thursday in downtown Caracas to the Federal Legislative Palace to commemorate the “Day of ...

In Southern Venezuela, Brazilian gold miners known as garimpeiros exploit Venezuelan Indigenous lands, leaving behind mass environmental destruction. Deforestation, sedimentation and contamination ...

People carry a casket of a miner during his funeral in La Paragua, Bolivar, Venezuela, Feb. 22, 2024, who died when an illegal gold mine collapsed.

The Venezuela native worked with immigrant advocacy groups in Miami when she came to the U.S. 13 years ago. She made connections with local politicians and started to land roles in the political ...

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Back in the late 1970s, Venezuela was one of the first Latin American countries to create a ministry of environment, enacting comprehensive laws to protect land and Indigenous people.

Venezuela’s Ministry for Indigenous Peoples did not respond to our requests for comment by the time of publication. The International Working Group for the Protection of Indigenous Peoples in ...

Venezuela's Indigenous communities have a complex relationship with gold mining, ... Gold mine collapse in Venezuela kills dozen people. Reuters. Sun, December 10, 2023 at 4:04 PM UTC.

The Warao people are Venezuela's second-largest indigenous group and live in the low-lying grasslands of the Orinoco Delta, in the east of the country. They have been hit particularly hard by an ...

Dec 10 (Reuters) - The collapse of an artisanal gold mine in southeastern Venezuela near an Indigenous community killed at least 12 people, the government announced on Sunday.

The Venezuela native worked with immigrant advocacy groups in Miami when she came to the U.S. 13 years ago. She made connections with local politicians and started to land roles in the political ...