General in Chief Domingo Hernández Lárez, Strategic Operational Commander of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (Ceofanb), reported on the destruction of two ponds used for illegal mining in the state of Bolívar, south of Venezuela.
The discovery of the boats occurred during the patrol of the River Rapid Reaction Unit (URRA) in the Paragua River, La Periquera sector of the Angostura municipality, as part of Operation Roraima 2025-Guri IV, AVN reports.
Hernández Lárez indicated that in the operation the citizens were arrested: José Viña, Orangel Pérez, Luis Carson and Carlos Ferrer, who were traveling on the rafts.
In this sense, the head of Ceofanb highlighted, through digital platforms, the regulations that Venezuela has for the management of the country’s water resources.
“The Water Law of Venezuela establishes the legal framework for the comprehensive management of water resources in the country, considering water as a good in the public domain and heritage of the nation. This law also regulates access to drinking water as a human right and establishes co-responsible, participatory and sustainable management of water, considering the hydrographic basin as the basic management unit where the manipulation of river mining will be prohibited in all possible ways, since it generates pollution, death or destruction of man and nature, so there will be no any negotiation for any type of polluting manipulation,” he noted.
“Mining ponds, camps, machinery or means that intend to manipulate means in hydrographic basins will be dismantled and destroyed,” he added in his message.
