Gold mining – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com Tue, 13 Sep 2022 12:48:42 +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 Gold mining – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com 32 32 Venezuelan Indigenous groups: Mine gold or go hungry in Venezuela https://onvenezuela.com/venezuelan-indigenous-groups-mine-gold-or-go-hungry-in-venezuela/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=venezuelan-indigenous-groups-mine-gold-or-go-hungry-in-venezuela Tue, 13 Sep 2022 08:15:00 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=15973

Bolívar state is bursting with biodiversity, breathtaking waterfalls, jungles, and tabletop mountains, known as tepuis. But, mining that can clear and destroy vast swaths of land has become an important source of income among the nearly 200 Indigenous communities that live here, especially since the breakdown of Venezuela’s oil industry accelerated in 2014. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated an already perilous economic situation, when what little remained of tourism and government social services all but evaporated. By Mie Hoejris Dahl. Full Text -> TheChridtianScienceMonitor

Traducción de cortesía -> El estado de Bolívar está repleto de biodiversidad, impresionantes cascadas, selvas y montañas tipo meseta, conocidas como tepuyes. Pero la minería que puede despejar y destruir vastas extensiones de tierra se ha convertido en una importante fuente de ingresos entre las casi 200 comunidades indígenas que viven aquí, especialmente desde que se aceleró el colapso de la industria petrolera de Venezuela en 2014. La pandemia de COVID-19 exacerbó un ya peligroso situación económica, cuando lo poco que quedaba del turismo y los servicios sociales del gobierno casi se evaporó.

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