The Venezuelan Ministers of Mining Ecological Development, Víctor Cano, and Indigenous Peoples Aloha Núñez met with 15 captains from the Pemón tribe and, according to state media, reiterated that it ...

Across southern Venezuela, Indigenous communities have been drawn into mining for gold as their traditional way of life has been disturbed and they lack other economic opportunities. Armed groups and ...

On the heels of Columbus Day, known since 2002 in Venezuela as the Day of Indigenous Resistance, President Nicolas Maduro handed over ‘collective property titles’ encompassing 8,382 hectares (21,000 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Indigenous Pemon on Venezuela's border with Brazil vow to let aid in By Maria Ramirez PUERTO ORDAZ, Venezuela (Reuters) - ...

Why it's incredible: The mountain looks like a floating island from the sky. Mount Roraima is a plateau with near-vertical sides that sits on the triple border point between Brazil, Venezuela and ...

KUMARAKAPAY, Venezuela (Reuters) - At dawn on February 22, as Venezuela's opposition was preparing to bring humanitarian aid into the country, a convoy of military vehicles drove into the indigenous ...

YUNÉK, Venezuela — The mist-shrouded mountains rising out of the forest here form one of the world’s most beguiling frontiers of exploration and research, inspiring Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1912 fantasy ...

“There’s no money in the bank,” I hear as I approach the entrance of my local Bank of Venezuela branch, eager to escape from the prickly hot mid-morning sun. I blink and locate the speaker, a thickset ...

Photo Gallery Artwork or Sacred Stone? It's been in Berlin for more than a decade and the Venezuela's indigenous Pemon people want it back. The group has staged a demonstration in front of the German ...

KUMARAKAPAY, Venezuela May 21 (Reuters) - At dawn on February 22, as Venezuela's opposition was preparing to bring humanitarian aid into the country, a convoy of military vehicles drove into the ...

PUERTO ORDAZ, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuela's Pemon, an indigenous people living along the border with Brazil, are determined to allow into the embattled country any foreign aid that may arrive, ...