Deadly Gold: Organised Crime, Ecocide and Corruption
Report by Transparencia Venezuela I March 19, 2020
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Report by Transparencia Venezuela I March 19, 2020
Documentary by SOSOrinoco I March 12, 2020 (Spanish) I A documentary short about the story of illegal mining in Venezuela, and the resulting human exploitation and ecological destruction that resulted.
Report by International Crisis Group | February 20, 2020
Article by Guylaine Roujol Perez, Le Parisien – Interview with SOSOrinoco team members in Paris I February 6, 2020
Article by Human Rights Watch | February 4, 2020
Article by Dom Phillips, The Guardian | January 13, 2020
Podcast by Altamar | January 3, 2020
Panel by the Atlantic Council | December 10, 2019
Prepared Statement by Carrie Filipetti, Before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere I December 5, 2019
Article by Laurence Debray, Les Echos | December 2, 2019
Article by InsightCrime I November 8, 2019
Article by Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres, Mongabay | October 18, 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.