We, the indigenous Wayúu inhabitants of the Socuy, Mache and Cachirí

river baisns in the Sierra de Perijá, in the western state of Zulia, in

the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, inform all women and men of the

world that our humble community, just as the Yukpa and Barí

communities, will be forcefully relocated by the national government so

that it may hand over our territories to multi-national coal companies,

because the innards of the imperial monster needs more cheap coal to

continue plaguing the peoples of the world with death, misery, and

hunger.

There cannot be a XXI Century Socialism in our country without us, the

indigenous –

and if there are no rights to autonomous territories, free of mines and

large hereditary landholders, only some expressed in legal papers – but

as a nuisance to miners, oil people, gas people and large hereditary

land holders, today they wish to eliminate us with their racist tale of

sovereignty and national unity, as if we the indigenous are not also

sons the god Maleiwua, Guaicaipuro, and Bolivar.

In these moments, the National Government, thru its Corporation of

Development of the Zulia Region (Corpozulia), heads a final attack

along with multi-national company operators against our humble

indigenous families, to obligate us to sell them our lands, just as

they imposed on us years ago during the opening of the Paso Diablo

Mine* and the North Mine in the Guasare river basin, and more recently

in the Las Carmelitas Mine near the Los Tres Rios dam.

We denounce the genocide and ecocide that is deepening in the foothills

of the Sierra de Perijá along the border region with Colombia on the

western arm of the great Andean Mountain range by the hands of

Corpozulia, Carbozuliam Anglo American Coal, Inter-American Coal,

Peabody, Carbonífera Caño Seco represented by the former president of

Telecom Eiram, Brendan Hynes from Ireland, Corporación Carbones del

Perijá of Chile represented by María Victoria Quiroga M. and Álvaro

Guell V., Energy Resources, among others.

Wayúu Indigenous Organization of the Socuy and Maché Maikiratasalii

Autonomous Indigenous Territories

Free of Mines and Large Landholders.



* Paso Diablo Mine is owned impart by Peabody Coal/Peabody Energy

Corporation.

http://www.peabodyenergy.com/Operations/CoalOperations-Venezuela.asp