Indigineous from Caura wait for the castrence abuse to cease
Natalie García
The Sanema and Yek’uana etnies, who inhabit the minig area of Caura, are alarmed and expecting things to change in the next few days. The illegal minning, and the presumed abuse from some of the military officers, have worried the comunities and organization that protect the indegenous right from any kind of abuse or gubernamental negligence.
The fear of those who suffer from the abuse is that there could be a confrontation and it can lead to a critical and violent resolution. The fundation Kuyujani and Medewadi warns that the situation is in "critical conditions", and even though there have been complains and denunciations in the media and personal visits to the Capital(Caracas), to central popular organisms, there have been no answer and no solution to the problem.
Spokepersons of the organizations consider the last events, as the death of an indegenous by the hand of a miner, to be the preface of a "timed-bomb" that can burst in any given moment.
Ramón Tomedes, president of Medewadi, comented that the indegenas are losing their patience and it can be a problem, cause in any moment they can rebel against those represive forces and against abuses sustained by the miners, and violently protest for a better and fair treatment by defending their territory and their livelyhood.
"This situation is terrible, horrible. There is a lot of gasoline traffic, the mine has been more active than before and the military officers in charge are letting the miners to do their illegal activities as if it is suppose to be instead of protecting the indegenous and their livelyhood, to only do their duties when there are meetings in which the miners and indegenous get together. It is necesary to stop the abuses comited against the indegenous" and the enviroment.
Tomedes thinks, and it is an affirmation, that little by little there is a "genocide" of indegenous. The miners throught their practices are contaminating and "killing" with viruses and their diseases aboriginals, whom their situations is vulnerable.
In Cauca, located eight hours by road from Puerto Ordaz and other long hours from river - depending of the area -, the comunities only comunicate throught via fluvial, and the lack of medical assistance and lack of supervition disables any control to prevent infections or any sexual trasmited deaseas.
Las organizaciones nuevamente llaman a las autoridades y entes competentes a involucrarse en el problema y ofrecer soluciones al problema minero y a los atropellos de algunos funcionarios militares.
The organizations are constantly calling the authorities and competent entities to get involve in the problem and offer somekind of assistance to the mining problem and the abuses perpetrated by some of the military officers.
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