By lifting the sanction on Venezuelan gold, the United States becomes a co-participant in the looting of the Venezuelan Amazon and chooses to ignore an ecocide that now becomes unstoppable, will be exploited by all transnational criminal groups in the region and will be impossible to hide.
Report by C4ADS
AGM & Hearing from Cristina Burelli of SOS Orinoco, Dr David Soud and Louis Marechal of the OECD
Parliamentarians: Andrew Lewer MBE MP (Chair); John Spellar MP (Officer); Baroness Hooper (Officer);
Lord Mountevans (Officer), John Stevenson MP
Report by the Human Rights Council, UN I September 20, 2022
Resolution by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee I September 30, 2021
Report by the OECD I September 8, 2021
Report by Lisa Viscidi & Sarah Phillips, Interamerican Dialogue | May 2021
Report by Douglas Farah, Atlantic Council | August 13, 2020
Report by Anthony Waldron et al. University of Cambridge I July 8, 2020
Report by Moises Rendon, Linnea Sandin & Claudia Fernandez, CSIS I April 16, 2020
Report by Transparencia Venezuela I March 19, 2020
Prepared Statement by Carrie Filipetti, Before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere I December 5, 2019
Our position on
the Orinoco Mining Arc
The purpose of SOSOrinoco is to shed light on the existing body of work regarding the situation in the Amazonia and Orinoquia regions of Venezuela, to raise awareness of the tragedy that is occurring and to outline some urgent measures that need to be taken in order to halt the unfolding human and environmental disaster.