Now small-scale, independent miners—consisting of about two million families—are on strike against new mining laws they fear will destroy their only source of livelihood. At the same time, small coffee growers are again protesting the government‘s lack of compliance to fulfill the financial support they agreed to provide only months ago. This sector alone supports more than 500,000 families.
http://nacla.org/blog/2013/7/17/peasants-and-miners-strikes-expand-catatumbo-other-regions
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