[news] Venezuela's Indigenous Protest Against Coal Mining in their Lands

[Resist!ca]

"Yesterday over six hundred Venezuelan indigenous people of the Wayu, Bari, and Yukpa ethnicities marched from the Plaza Morelos to the Presidential Palace of Miraflores in Caracas, protesting coal exploitation in the western state of Zulia. Alongside the indigenous people, civil society groups, political organizations, ecological and environment agencies and NGOs of the region walked the two miles to hand deliver a letter of protest to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/3/185510/5264