At 8PM this
evening, Sunday March 3rd, 2013 for unknown motives and circumstances, on the
road from el Yaza to Tokuko, the Cacique (“Chief”) of the Yukpa People and
leader of the struggle for the land of his people, Sabino Romero, was gravely
wounded and subsequently died from his injuries. Romero´s daughter Zenaida
Romero reports that her mother was also injured during the ambush that took her
father´s life.
Sabino
Romero and his people have been systematically killed and criminalized, accused
of being criminals by local right-wing and Chavista authorities, cattle
ranchers, and the military with complicity of the Central Government that has
mining projects planned for that region with Chinese companies.
The streams
and mountains of the Yukpa territory in the Perija Mountains is a region with
many economic interests and who Sabino and his community have continued a
sustained fight for a true demarcation of their territory. We hold the national
government responsible for allowing an announced murder that was encouraged
through a continued campaign by several of its Ministers.
Social
movements, activists and other in solidarity are mobilizing right now in
Caracas to express their indignation of this murder.
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