InSight Crime: Doubts Remain Over Venezuela’s Efforts to Stop Illegal Mining
Report by InSight Crime | February 17, 2023
Tag: Guerrillas
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Presence, Activity and Influence of Organized Armed Groups in Mining Operations South of the Orinoco River
Mining in southern Venezuela, represented in the Orinoco Mining Arc, has become an activity imbued within a large organized criminal network that reaches all levels of political and military power. One of the key irregular actors within this complex plot consists of the Organized Armed Groups (OAGs). This report presents the results of an investigation […]
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A Closer Look at Colombia’s Illegal, Artisanal, and Small-Scale Mining
Article by Ryan Berg & Henry Ziemer, CSIS | December 20, 2021
The Governors, the Gang and the War for Bolívar's Gold
Investigation by InsightCrime | November 17, 2021
The Scale of Illegal Coltan Trafficking in Colombia and Venezuela
Article by Juan Camilo Jaramillo, InsightCrime | August 18, 2021 (Mentions SOSOrinoco)
The Maduro Regime’s Illicit Activities: A Threat to Democracy in Venezuela and Security in Latin America
Report by Douglas Farah, Atlantic Council | August 13, 2020
Illegal Mining, Guerrillas & Disease in the Upper Orinoco-Casiquiare Biosphere Reserve 2019
The Alto Orinoco – Casiquiare Biosphere Reserve (RBAOC) comprises one of the geographical areas of greatest cultural diversity in the entire Amazon; Indigenous communities of 17 different ethnic groups live there. Each of these peoples is the bearer of a unique cultural heritage, and as a whole they give an extraordinary universe of linguistic diversity, worldviews, mythologies, history, art and ancestral knowledge, which are a true, unique and irreplaceable contribution to Humanity through the conservation of socio-diversity and biodiversity.
Illegal Mining in Yapacana National Park (Amazonas, Venezuela) 2019
Two thousand hectares of Yapacana National Park’s surface is being subjected to gold mining activity, a case of extreme ecocide. The impact on its ecosystems manifests itself not only on the surface area that has been directly destroyed but also as the radial and expansive effects caused by the more than 2,000 miners currently occupying the national park. This makes Yapacana the national park that, without a doubt, has suffered the highest level of destruction.
“Scars” left by illegal mining controlled by the Farc in Amazonas
Look at the scars left by #illegalmining – prohibited by Decree No. 269 (1989) but allowed by @NicolasMaduro & controlled by the #FARC – that destroy the #Yanomami‘s environment and threaten their livelihood.
Confirmed presence of ELN Guerrillas in Bolivar State, Venezuela
This past week the presence of ELN guerrillas has been confirmed in the the town of Guasipati, Edo. Bolivar. This is far east of the border between Colombia and Venezuela, confirming what has long been suspected and rumored, that the government of Venezuela has lost control of our national sovereignty and has probably made a deal with the ELN, allowing it to make incursions way inside Venezuelan territory.