Venezuela’s national parks are being destroyed by widespread illegal mining for gold - with the scale of the once hidden operation uncovered by satellite images. 🇻🇪 | CGTNEurope

🔴 Ye’kwana Indigenous people denounce violence and illegal mining on their territory 🔴 The Ye’kwana People of the Tencua community in the Venezuelan Amazon have issued a statement to the Venezuelan government about the violence that’s plaguing their territory because of illegal mining. On January 20, the Ye’kwana and other Indigenous organizations expelled illegal miners from their territory, destroying the machines used to plunder their forest. But the response of the miners was brutal: in re