May 20, 2024

An In-Depth Look at Women’s Slavery in the Mining Arc

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The Mining Arc isn’t only an environmental disaster in Venezuela’s most biodiverse region, where most of the freshwater should be produced. Not only is it helping the spread of malaria across the country and bringing conflict, violence, disease and exploitation to Indigenous communities, the Mining Arc is also setting patterns of sexual and labor subjugation on Venezuelan girls, teenagers, and women which can only be referred to as slavery. By Kaoru Yonekura. Full Text -> CaracasChronicles

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