Social Watch emphasized that military operations in the Yapacana National Park, in Amazonas state, do not stop environmental destruction. They point out that the FAN’s plans will not be effective as long as it is not recognized who is the enemy to face
Citizen Control He emphasized that military operations in the Yapacana National Park, in Amazonas state, do not stop environmental destruction.
«The causes of the destruction and illegal activities in the Yapacana National Park are associated with the presence of the National Liberation Army (ELN) and dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), who lead the illegal mining business in southern Venezuela,” the NGO emphasized this Friday, January 20, in a press release.
Control Ciudadano reported that the chief of the operational strategic commander of the National Armed Forces (FAN), General in Chief Domingo Antonio Hernandez Larezreported through his Twitter account the start of the Bolivarian Shield Operation “Autana 2023”, with the military deployment in the Yapacana National Park.
At the same time, the military, as he does on a regular basis, released photographs of the operations in which part of the seized and destroyed material appears: “5 13-hp motorized pumps, 1 power plant, 1,000 meters of high-pressure hose and 545 liters of gasoline”, used for illegal mining.
Given this, Social Watch stresses that it has denounced the situation in the Yapacanaha National Park, as have other human rights organizations such as Kape Kape and SOS Orinoco “as a result of the murder and disappearance of indigenous people, consolidation of mining activities illegal, and the presence of guerrilla groups associated with the illegal activities that take place in the area, located to the south west of Amazonas state.”
In this sense, the NGO points out that the military operations in Venezuela focus on the displacement of FAN troops for a few days, the confiscation and destruction of material used in illegal mining, “to then once again abandon surveillance of illegal activities.” that take place in the Yapacana, in full view of all».
Control Ciudadano, an organization chaired by Rocío San Miguel, stresses that the recovery of full sovereignty on the border, in the south of Venezuela, “will only be possible when it is officially recognized that the enemy to fight for the FAN is the Colombian guerrilla that is consolidating more and more in the states of Amazonas and Bolívar, to control the gigantic business of illegal mining, for the dividends and power it generates and its ramifications.”
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