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Article

27 Jan 2006

Author:
Humberto Márquez, Inter Press Service

Indigenous Demonstrators Protest Coal Mining [Venezuela]

Indigenous protesters from northwestern Venezuela marched Friday through the streets of Caracas, which is hosting the sixth World Social Forum (WSF), to protest plans for mining coal on their land...[Venezuelan state-owned] Carbozulia [part of PDVSA] and the Brazilian state-owned Companhia Vale do Rio Doce have formed a consortium to mine coal in the region, where joint ventures are already operating between the Venezuelan company and transnational corporations like...Anglo American; Ruhrkohle [RAG]...Interamerican Coal...and the coal divisions of...Chevron-Texaco and...Shell.