Exclusive: These Indigenous Venezuelan people are in the path of U.S. oil development. What will happen to them?
The Warao Indigenous people of Venezuela have migrated en masse due to pollution of their lands in the Orinoco Delta. Now the Orinoco Oil Belt is in the sights of U.S. oil development ambitions — and the Warao could be impacted again, experts say. Includes a video interview.
Freddy Cardosa, of the Indigenous Warao people of Venezuela. 10,000 Warao have migrated from Venezuela to Brazil since 2014 - roughly 1/5 of its Venezuelan population, an extraordinary "forced migration" of a people considered by experts to be "environmental refugees." U.S. oil ambitions could impact them again, experts warn. Photo: Tiffany Higgins
