InSight Crime: Doubts Remain Over Venezuela’s Efforts to Stop Illegal Mining
Report by InSight Crime | February 17, 2023
Tag: lawlessness
Venezuela’s mining region a hotbed of sex trafficking and violence, UN says
Article by Luke Taylor, The Guardian I September 30, 2022
Venezuelan Amazon deforestation expands due to lawlessness, mining, fires: Reports
Article by Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres, Mongabay I August 31, 2022
Venezuela: Now Is Not the Time to Reduce Global Scrutiny
Article by Tamara Taraciuk Broner, Americas Quarterly I August 25, 2022
The Governors, the Gang and the War for Bolívar's Gold
Investigation by InsightCrime | November 17, 2021
Gold Flows from Venezuela: Supporting due diligence on the production and trade of gold in Venezuela
Report by the OECD I September 8, 2021
Illegal mining creeping toward Canaima National Park (World Heritage Site)
Outdated and destructive mining techniques in Las Claritas Mines and illegal mining is spreading uncontrolled, devastating the environment along the way and increasing malaria to epidemic numbers, toward World Heritage Site Canaima National Park and Imataca National Park
Two new reports by CDC on emerging infectious diseases in Venezuela
Read the report on the resurgence of malaria and the report on the resurgence of vaccine-preventable diseases in Venezuela (measles and diphtheria), affecting the indigenous people in a disproportionate way.
Pemon people: victims of the Maduro Regime’s latest power grab
It has become increasingly evident that the struggle between the Pemon people and the Maduro regime during the month of February 2019 in Santa Elena de Uairén and the Venezuelan-Brazilian border was not really about stopping humanitarian aid from entering Venezuela, but rather an excuse for the regime’s (carried out by the US and Canada sanctioned Chavista governor of Bolivar State, Justo Noguera Pietri) latest power grab to control the Pemon ancestral lands, the real objective being the illegal gold mines in that region.
Pemon, Hoti & Eñepa indigenous peoples threatened by dissident FARC group
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Illegal mining in Yapacana National Park, Amazonas, Venezuela
Recent satellite images (May 2018 reveal and confirm the location of the illegal mining site Maraya inside YAPAKANA National Park in Amazonas State (Venezuela) where any type of mining is forbidden in the 1999 Constitution of Venezuela. Criminal illegal mining in this state is not only allowed but exploited by the Venezuelan Armed Forces, in particular by the regional command REDI Guayana.
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.