Garimpeiros – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com Sat, 30 Jul 2022 14:17:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://onvenezuela.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-Screen-Shot-2019-12-20-at-12.31.03-PM-1-32x32.png Garimpeiros – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com 32 32 Brazilian miners ramp up their invasion of Yanomami land in Venezuela https://onvenezuela.com/brazilian-miners-ramp-up-their-invasion-of-yanomami-land-in-venezuela/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=brazilian-miners-ramp-up-their-invasion-of-yanomami-land-in-venezuela Mon, 01 Aug 2022 05:14:57 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=15419

In recent decades, they [the Yanomami] have suffered from a growing invasion by Brazilian miners, known locally as garimpeiros, who cross the border with heavy machinery to extract gold and other minerals. The result has been widespread deforestation, the pollution of major rivers, and human rights violations against the Indigenous communities. These problems appear to be getting worse, according to a report from SOS Orinoco, a Venezuelan environmental advocacy group. By Maxwell Radwin. Full Text ->Mongabay

Texto de cortesía -> En las últimas décadas, ellos [los yanomami] han sufrido una creciente invasión de mineros brasileños, conocidos localmente como garimpeiros, que cruzan la frontera con maquinaria pesada para extraer oro y otros minerales. El resultado ha sido la deforestación generalizada, la contaminación de los principales ríos y las violaciones de los derechos humanos de las comunidades indígenas. Estos problemas parecen estar empeorando, según un informe de SOS Orinoco, un grupo de defensa ambiental venezolano

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