The Yanomami tribe are hunters but are constantly threatened, when not attacked, by gold prospectors and smugglers Venezuela announced it is investigating an alleged massacre of indigenous people ...

In Venezuela, for example, although NGOs have confirmed four records of Indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation, the state has not recognized any of them. “[Venezuela] does not appear on the ...

where thousands of other Wayuu people, native to the La Guajira region spanning Colombia and Venezuela, also reside. Although ...

Guyana's National Toshaos’ Council (NTC), representing the country's Indigenous Peoples, has rejected Venezuela's claims of holding elections in the disputed Essequibo region on May 25 ...

Across South America, states only recognize and guarantee the rights of peoples in isolation whose presence has been ...