Venezuelan group seeks land rights
Indigenous group finds itself in long battle as it pushes government to fulfil promise to hand back its ancestral land.
Published On 5 Apr 2013
An indigenous Venezuelan group is pushing the government to fulfil a promise to hand back its ancestral land.
Under a programme launched by the late President Hugo Chavez, 250,000 hectares should be redistributed to the Yukpa community. But as Al Jazeera’s Adam Raney reports, it is proving a long and violent battle.
Source: Al Jazeera