The 19-minute film, “The Mining Arc: Ecocide or Suicide?”, vividly depicts the beauty of this region as well as the huge environmental and human costs of illegal miners blasting out riverbeds, mountainsides and forests with water cannons in ostensibly protected national parks and then spewing sediment and mercury from gold processing into once-untouched rivers. Says an Indigenous female Pemón chief, “We are suffering an uncontrolled invasion in the Pemón territory. There is the fear of losing what little land we have left.”
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