The price of gold: In Venezuela, mining threatens Indigenous Pemón
via news.mongabay.com
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CÚCUTA, Colombia — When Daniel Romero worked at a river mine in Canaima National Park, in southeastern Venezuela, he would wait until the sun had slipped behind the ancient sandstone tepuis before heading to the raft. Sometimes he thought of his grandparents tending to their conucos — small garden plots — and gliding across mirror-black […]