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.

Natalie Garci'a
Photo William Urdaneta/File

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

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”.

As this story are similars. In a brief route by the town with some soundings one reaches the conclusion that to having uses neither in Maripa nor in the Third Bridge on the Orinoco (in the Cedeño municipality) many prefer to risk to be able gold in the forest before to continue passing hunger.

Risks everywhere
And it is that to arrive at the mines of the Caura he is not far from easy. For it is required of intense logistics and it holds.

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.

By the Paragua there is another entrance, and indicate the miners who are by that zone where he is entering most of the illegal ones between which also are foreigners.

What it hurts more to Carmen Ledezma is that the authorities are abreast of all this, but in spite of the Caura Plan applied in 2010 and the promises of a better life they continue becoming the “deaf people and dumb” and allowing presumably who “some civil servants of the Army run over a town, and in evidence he is what they have said to our indigenous brothers and the others that have been affected”.

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”.

Recently this man lost a son who disappeared in the forest, looked for aid in the Army and these in spite of being in the indigenous community refused alleging that “they did not have orders”.

“When they are going to the mines to ask gold yes has order, I I said that to them, because my son was lost was 5 days lost, my son of 13 years. We obtained it dead and they did not support to me. When there is a emergencia do not move, I believe that they are there for taking care of the community, but they run over”.