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Wayuu, Bari, and Yukpa Face Increasing Threats
Indigenous communities in the Sierra de Perija region of Venezuela are facing an increasing number of threats by Colombian FARC and ELN guerrillas, as well as the Venezuelan military. According to reports obtained by Survival International, Members of FARC have been settling along the border areas of the Bari and Yukpa indigenous communities, bringing in [...]
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Second Int’l Congress of Indigenous People of America
The Second International Congress of Indigenous People of the Americas (Abya Yala) began on Wednesday, October 8, in the Venezuelan state of Zulia. The multi-national event, which concludes on October 12, will discuss a range issues, perhaps the most urgent being the matter of strengthening Indigenous peoples sovereignty throughout the hemisphere. "One hundred international delegations [...]
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Venezuela Moves to Support the Yukpa
Following last weeks attack on Venezuela's Indigenous Yukpa community -- and the worrisome lack of support by the government to ensure their safety -- President Hugo Chavez pledged on Sunday to come to the aid of the Yukpa. "Nobody should have any doubts: Between the large estate owners and the indians, this government is with [...]
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Venezuala’s Yukpa attacked by armed “agressors”
The Yukpa, an indigenous community in the northwestern region of Venezuela, were attacked last week by hundreds of armed aggressors. "According to the Yukpa, the aggressors were hired by elite landowners to evict the indigenous population from the vast, largely idle pastures in the region known as the Sierra de Perijá near Venezuela's northwestern border [...]
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Barí People Left Without Land by Oil, Cattle, Coal
Despite the demarcation of indigenous territories in Venezuela, and the Decree issued last year (see comment) by President Hugo Chavez that prohibited new coal mines from being built in the Sierra de Perija -- and even though no more bombs are being tossed into their communities -- the indigenous People of Venezuela, especially the Bari, [...]
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Underreported Struggles #11, February 2008
It was pretty much 'business as usual' for the month of February. Corporations continued acting as innocent third parties while Governments continued to demand indigenous People allow the theft of their lands and destruction of their cultures without question. "It's in your best interests," we're told. "It's for the greater good." Amidst this however, there [...]
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Chavez Orders Immediate Liberation of Indigenous Peoples
Over the weekend, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was informed that Agroflora, an affiliate of the British Vestey Group, illegally set up a fence that encircled 200 Yaruro indigenous people. According to the denunciations filed by Representative Cristóbal Jiménez, "the farm put up a fence around them and they can't get out without permission from the [...]
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