At dawn on February 22, as Venezuela's opposition was preparing to bring hu...
KUMARAKAPAY, Venezuela - At dawn on February 22, as Venezuela’s opposition was preparing to bring humanitarian aid into the country, a convoy of military vehicles drove into the indigenous village of Kumarakapay on its way to the Brazilian border.
But the army convoy that arrived at dawn was moving quickly and the tribesman were only able to stop the last of the four vehicles - a Jeep carrying four National Guard officials, who told the villagers they were working on a mining project. The shooting would leave dozens of villagers wounded and three villagers dead, an unusually bloody confrontation between Venezuelan troops and indigenous people.
“We couldn’t understand the attitude of Maduro’s regime of using arms against indigenous people,” said Guillermo Rodriguez, brother of Zoraida Rodriguez, one of the people killed in Kumarakapay. The National Guard, the information ministry - which handles media enquiries for the Venezuelan government - and the defense ministry did not respond to requests for this story.
“Unfortunately, there were terrorist acts. They attacked a unit of our Bolivarian Army that was only carrying communications equipment,” said Noguera. “There were elements within the peaceful community of Kumarakapay that were armed, and the community rejects that.”Opposition leader Juan Guaido, who invoked the constitution in January to assume an interim presidency, led the attempt to bring U.S.
That same day, a group of around 10 Pemon tribesmen from the village of Maurak detained 42 members of the National Guard at a small airport in the town of Santa Elena, about 10 kilometers from the border with Brazil and 75 kilometers south of Kumarakapay, according to one Pemon tribal leader.
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