Tag: Indigenous peoples

The Organic Mining Law draft institutionalizes ecocide and the laundering of “blood gold” in Venezuela

by venezuelanvoices, posted in Environmental degradation

Organizations We, the undersigned civil society organizations, human rights defenders, and environmental advocates, address the national and international community to warn of the grave threat posed by the new Organic Mining Law draft currently under discussion. This law is part of a long-standing context of systematic violations of social and environmental rights, disregard for the … Continue reading The Organic Mining Law draft institutionalizes ecocide and the laundering of “blood gold” in Venezuela

Open letter in defense of Lusbi Portillo

by venezuelanvoices, posted in Environmental degradation, repression

Picture: Lusbi Portillo accompanying yukpa leaders Sabino Romero and Alexander Fernandez, a decade ago, after they were freed from political imprisonment. In subsecuent years Romero and Fernandez were killed. Professor Lusbi Portillo is an academic committed to the Indigenous Peoples and the Defense of the Environment in the State of Zulia. The governor of Zulia … Continue reading Open letter in defense of Lusbi Portillo