CARACAS, Aug 9 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, urged to rescue the Amazon territories for the benefit of the native peoples who have lived for centuries in its forest.
He highlighted in his Twitter account the need for “hard work to advance in the reforestation of that region” to facilitate the existence of these ancestral communities.
Maduro called in this sense to implement “with work and effort a concrete plan to advance together in the reforestation, sanitation and recovery of that area.”
“We are heading towards a new humanity”, declared the president of the South American nation and confirmed his conviction that “yes we can”, regarding saving the national part of that region.
The Amazon, officially called the “Indigenous State of Amazonas”, is one of the twenty-three regions that, together with the Capital District and the Federal Dependencies, make up the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
The South American hydrographic and jungle basin that makes up the Venezuelan area of the river that gives it its name was subjected to centuries of deforestation, depredation and exploitation by Western companies, which seized their lands from the original peoples.
The current government led by Maduro is making enormous efforts to save those territories and is currently facing scourges such as illegal mining, the smuggling of fuels derived from national oil, drug trafficking, and the sale of arms. — NNN-PRENSA LATINA