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Category: Venezuela

For young Venezuelan migrants in Brazil, drugs, gold and early death

By Emily Costa, Mariana Rios and Rodrigo Chagas 22 de August de 202320 de September de 2023

Brazilian criminal groups prey on young Venezuelan migrants, especially unaccompanied minors, who cross border in search of jobs.

In Venezuela, Colombian guerrillas recruit Indigenous youth

By Bram Ebus 20 de August de 202320 de September de 2023

Along border with Venezuela, Colombian guerrillas lure unemployed Indigenous youths into drug trade, extortion rackets and armed conflict.

Armed groups threaten Indigenous lands in southern Venezuela

By María Ramírez Cabello 6 de August de 202320 de September de 2023

In Venezuela’s southern Amazon region, Pemón Indigenous communities are caught between encroaching armed groups and illegal gold miners.

Welcome to the Amazon Underworld

By Erico Rosa 3 de August de 202322 de September de 2023

The Amazon, the largest rainforest in the world, is also a source and transit point for illegally extracted jungle resources and narcotics. As criminal economies expand, violence and deforestation worsen

Deforestation in the Amazon: past, present and future

By Sibélia Zanon 21 de March de 202321 de March de 2023

According to a new study from RAISG, in just five years, the Amazon could lose almost half of what it lost in the past two decades.

Hortimio, the “Lord of the Earth”: Always at the Forefront in Cataniapo

By 18 de September de 202024 de January de 2021

Inspired by Wänä’cä, a leader who is mentioned in the ancestral songs of the Huöttöja people, Hortimio Ochoa is the visible face of defense of the Cataniapo hydrographic basin in the Venezuelan state of Amazonas. It is an area subject to increasingly evident pressure associated with mining, deforestation and the incursion of illegal armed groups

Land of Resistants: defending the environment has never been so dangerous.

By Gustavo Faleiros 22 de April de 202014 de September de 2020

A team of 45 journalists from ten countries gathered to investigate episodes of violence against environmental leaders and their communities.

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Armed groups threaten Indigenous lands in southern Venezuela

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