PEMÓN INDIANS: AN INDIGENOUS PEOPLE INVADED AND ABUSED BY MINING IN THEIR ANCESTRAL TERRITORY

Abstract

The present production establishes a critical approach, developed from the geohistorical approach documented in newspapers and reports of the last 5 years, which are added to the participant observation, on the daily context that has been disfiguring the cultural and biodiverse landscape that is part of the ancestral references of the Pemón people, evidencing how they have been denied their constitutional right of self-determination to make decisions about the geographical space they have been occupied for thousands of years, generating in them new collective memories subject to the violence of criminal groups and the national armed forces that dispute control of the area as a territory of mining exploitation, in contrast to the sense of belonging of the indigenous people born in the oldest land on the planet and their diverse ways of ecological life and spiritual relationship with Mother Earth.