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Following the crackdown, indigenous groups captured thirty-six soldiers, held them in the jungle and set fire to a military outpost of the Santa Elena de Uairén airport. [14] On 23 February, near the Brazil–Venezuela border, more than 2,000 indigenous people from Gran Sabana gathered to assist with the entrance of international aid. [15]
The most numerous indigenous people, at about 200,000, is the Venezuelan part of the Wayuu (or Guajiro) people who primarily live in Zulia between Lake Maracaibo and the Colombian border. [2] Another 100,000 or so indigenous people live in the sparsely populated southeastern states of Amazonas, Bolívar and Delta Amacuro. [2]
Advocacy group: Grupo de Estudo e Avaliação de Pernambuco Independente [12] [13] São Paulo. Proposed state: Republic of São Paulo Advocacy groups: Movimento São Paulo Independente, [14] [15] Movimento República de São Paulo [16] South Region. Proposed: Independence for the South Region of Brazil Advocacy group: O Sul É o Meu País ...
Groups who decide to remain uncontacted are referred to as indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation. [1] Legal protections make estimating the total number of uncontacted peoples challenging, but estimates from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in the UN and the nonprofit group Survival International point to between 100 and 200 ...
During the 20th century, "Venezuela was a haven for immigrants fleeing Old World repression and intolerance" according to Newsweek. [2] Emigration began at low rates in 1983 after oil prices collapsed, though the increased rates of emigration, especially the flight of professionals, grew largely following the Bolivarian Revolution which was led by Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. [33]
In Brazil, Pemon live among other indigenous people near the borders of Venezuela and Guyana in villages within the Terras Indígenas São Marcos and Raposa Serra do Sol. There are 792 Pemon according to a 2014 estimate. [8] The Makuxi, who are also Pemon speakers, are found in Brazil and Guyana in areas close to the Venezuelan border.
Various groups fled in large numbers from areas under Axis control during World War II, or after the border changes following the war, and formed their own diasporas. Only a few larger sized ethnic groups and nationalities were able to restore autonomy after the fall of Communism and the disbanding of the Soviet Union (1990–91).
Venezuela and Indigenous activist groups accused Guyanese forces of attacking and killing Amerindians in the region. [ 2 ] [ better source needed ] According to Sanders, "reliable sources" reported two or three Amerindians killed and said that accusations that up to seventy deaths occurred were "rumors."