Indigenous People – 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 Indigenous People – 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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Indígenas de la Amazonía venezolana: “Nos quieren desaparecer” https://onvenezuela.com/indigenas-de-la-amazonia-venezolana-nos-quieren-desaparecer/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=indigenas-de-la-amazonia-venezolana-nos-quieren-desaparecer Sun, 07 Aug 2022 14:00:45 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=15510

Son diferentes los foráneos que se han adueñado de las tierras ancestrales: sindicatos, guerrilleros, garimpeiros, piratas, FARC, ELN y FANB. Estas organizaciones delictivas no solo someten al pueblo, asesinan a todo aquel que impida realizar su trabajo, son los que han masacrado a los indígenas estos últimos años, han logrado la desaparición de algunas comunidades de la cuenca amazónica y quieren llevar al exterminio a los verdaderos dueños de esos territorios. Por NSJ. Johan Ramos J. Texto Completo -> ElNacional

⬇︎For English text, use Google’s translator at the bottom ⬇

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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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Yekuana Baskets Make It to Milan’s Salone Satellite https://onvenezuela.com/yekuana-baskets-make-it-to-milans-salone-satellite/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=yekuana-baskets-make-it-to-milans-salone-satellite Fri, 06 May 2022 11:40:08 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=14504

The basket is essential for us. Everything we use every day is still being weaved, because we need it. That hasn’t been lost. I also believe that weaving the baskets is our own millenary identity, not invented or appropriated, something that came from this specific place in Venezuela. This is why the Yekuana baskets are going to be exhibited in one of the world’s most prestigious fairs for young designers, Salone Satellite di Milano, in June. And Dawa is going with them, invited by the curator, NYC-based Venezuelan designer Rodolfo Agrella. By Kaoru Yonekura. Full Text -> CaracasChronicles

Traducción de cortesía -> Yekuana Baskets Make It to Milan’s Salone Satellite

La cesta es fundamental para nosotros. Todo lo que usamos todos los días se sigue tejiendo, porque lo necesitamos. Eso no se ha perdido. También creo que tejer las canastas es nuestra propia identidad milenaria, no inventada ni apropiada, algo que vino de este lugar específico de Venezuela.Por eso, las cestas Yekuana se expondrán en junio en una de las ferias más prestigiosas del mundo para jóvenes diseñadores, el Salone Satellite di Milano. Y Dawa irá con ellos, invitado por el curador, el diseñador venezolano radicado en Nueva York, Rodolfo Agrella.

Traducción al español -> Google Translación

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Indigenous community in Venezuela reduced to scavenging landfill https://onvenezuela.com/indigenous-community-in-venezuela-reduced-to-scavenging-landfill/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=indigenous-community-in-venezuela-reduced-to-scavenging-landfill Fri, 29 Apr 2022 12:33:57 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=14380

Warao“We in the indigenous community are doing a little poorly because we don’t have work,” Warao cacique (chief) Venancio Narvaez told Efe, accusing the Venezuelan government of failing to deliver on promises of housing and land. “We are truly abandoned,” he said. Most families survive by working for the criminal outfit that strips Bolivar’s factories of metals, wiring, and other commodities and uses the Warao settlement as a warehouse for the looted material. By Genesis Carrero Soto. Full Text->LaPrensaLatina

Traducción de cortesía ->

“Nosotros en la comunidad indígena estamos un poco mal porque no tenemos trabajo”, dijo a Efe el cacique (jefe) warao Venancio Narváez, acusando al gobierno venezolano de no cumplir con las promesas de vivienda y tierra.“Estamos realmente abandonados”, dijo. La mayoría de las familias sobreviven trabajando para el grupo criminal que despoja a las fábricas de Bolívar de metales, cableado y otros productos básicos y utiliza el asentamiento de Warao como almacén para el material saqueado.

Traducción al español -> Google Translación

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Guerrillas and Indigenous in Venezuela’s Amazon https://onvenezuela.com/the-guerrillas-and-the-indigenous-in-venezuelas-amazon/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-guerrillas-and-the-indigenous-in-venezuelas-amazon Thu, 07 Apr 2022 13:50:34 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=14130

Colombian guerrilla groups have advanced into indigenous territory in the Venezuelan state of Amazonas not with violence, but by co-opting, corrupting, and conning its people. Their presence has torn communities apart, fueled an illegal gold rush that is savaging the natural environment, and now it threatens the survival of ancient cultures that have for generations acted as custodians of one of the world’s most precious eco-systems: the Amazon rainforest. Full Text -> InSightCrime

Spanish version -> Grupos guerrilleros colombianos han incursionado en territorio indígena del estado venezolano de Amazonas, no mediante la violencia, sino por la cooptación, la corrupción y el engaño de la comunidad. Su presencia ha desintegrado las comunidades, atizado una fiebre de oro ilegal que violenta el medio ambiente y ahora amenaza la supervivencia de culturas ancestrales que por generaciones han actuado como custodios de uno de los ecosistemas más preciados del planeta: la selva amazónica. Texto Completo -> InSightCrime

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Mining Is Igniting An Indigenous Conflict In The Venezuelan Amazon https://onvenezuela.com/mining-is-igniting-an-indigenous-conflict-in-the-venezuelan-amazon/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mining-is-igniting-an-indigenous-conflict-in-the-venezuelan-amazon Fri, 04 Jun 2021 13:42:21 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=9575

Some of them want to work for the miners, others only want to defend their ancestral land, but violence has already begun and the ELN is behind it all. By Manoa Fernandes. Full Text -> CaracasChronicles

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Indigenous Rights in Venezuela: Unfulfilled Promises, Trampled Dignity https://onvenezuela.com/indigenous-rights-in-venezuela-unfulfilled-promises-trampled-dignity/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=indigenous-rights-in-venezuela-unfulfilled-promises-trampled-dignity Mon, 19 Apr 2021 20:46:33 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=8744

When we talk about the Venezuelan human rights crisis, we don’t often mention the situation of Indigenous peoples. No data, no differentiated policies and lots of unfulfilled promises perpetuate the inequalities they’ve always endured. By Betilde Muñoz-Pogossian. Full Text -> CaracasChronicles

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Maduro’s War on Indigenous Venezuelans: Erasing from Public Spaces, Stripping Voting Rights https://onvenezuela.com/maduros-war-on-indigenous-venezuelans-erasing-from-public-spaces-stripping-voting-rights/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=maduros-war-on-indigenous-venezuelans-erasing-from-public-spaces-stripping-voting-rights Mon, 26 Oct 2020 13:58:16 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=6222

Without proper access to water and electricity, many of our indigenous people have had to face the Chinese coronavirus on their own. The socialist regime may have completely demolished the nation’s healthcare system outside of rural indigenous territories, but those of us in cities still have more than what they do at their disposal. By Christian Caruzo. Full Text -> Breitbart

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