Codhez warns of the decline in economic, social and cultural rights of indigenous peoples in Zulia

The August 2021 Bulletin of the Commission for Human Rights of the state of Zulia (Codhez) reports the situation and living conditions of people belonging to indigenous peoples and communities in the region.

The Zulia state concentrates the largest indigenous population in Venezuela, among the Wayuu and Añú ethnic groups, which are located in the territory of La Guajira (north of the Zulia state, on the border with Colombia); as well as the Barí, Japreria and Yukpa ethnic groups, who live in the Sierra de Perijá (western Zulia state, border with Colombia).

The study reports that indigenous communities continue to suffer from institutional abandonment due to their multiple needs, which have been exacerbated by the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, and with the aggravation that in recent years neglect has reached such an extreme that the minimum subsistence conditions are not guaranteed.

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