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Jul 15, 2011 06:01AM
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Military abuses persist in the Caura |
Friday, 15 of Julio of 2011 |
Inhabitants of Maripa question the treatment that is realised to illegal and native. They denounce the little collaboration of the Army when he deserves it to the case. Although the miners are conscious of the damage whom they cause to the atmosphere criticize the lack of worthy uses as well, not only in the Caura Until now the denunciations of the natives give account of a series of vejatorios procedures in adult and young which (without concerning the age) they are forced to undress to be reviewed his parts in search of gold. In case outside little the gasoline is seized to them, and apparently resold the miners, the motors outside hut are disarmed in search of golden metal hiding places and other substances. Persistent illegality Whatsoever this and to the malaise that such facts generate in the ethnic groups Yekuana, Sanema and Pemón who inhabit the mining there follows its course. They are the 4 control posts that there is between Maripa and the Caura Stop (Maripa, Jabillal, the Playón and the Turkey hens) and nevertheless is illegal orerators in the forest that is forest reserve and one of the most beautiful places of the planet. The question that all become is how arrive the miners at the Caura Stop with so many controls? Then the illegal ones do not have repairs in saying it: we do “it in secrecy and although they discover we paid to us bovine to the military to continue working”. Behind this there is a social drama that affects so much to the natives as to the Creole residents of Maripa. Carmen Ledezma, main spokeswoman of the miners explains that “we do not have of what living and we went to the Caura Stop because we looked for the round maize loaf because this woman - Amelia Falcon the mayoress of Sucre- has denied us the bread (there are no uses), and now tries to exterminate the miners”. To only go until the last community of the Low Caura 8 hours are sailing, of is necessary there to go into in goads and to walk 4 hours, to sail other so many hours and soon to return to walk by the forest, altogether are 30 hours of passage set out to the climate, the mosquitos of the malaria, the serpents and the spiders, to say the minus. Native impotence Mañakuena Vine shoot, of the ethnic group Yekuana, criticism that the Army acts without respect to the communities. “They are like gross, the Guard (National) was more treatable because more they are studied. The Army is abusing us does not respect the indigenous law, and that is base for us”. |