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Venezuela: Over 20 Fatalities Following Gold Mine Collapse

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  • #Mining
Venezuela: Over 20 Fatalities Following Gold Mine Collapse
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FEB 2024
Image copyright: Mark Peterson/Corbis News via Getty Images (March 1, 1997)
story last updated FEB 2024

The Spin

Pro-establishment narrative

Nicolas Maduro's government has left Venezuelans no other choice than to travel to rural Bolivar and risk their lives in the dangerous illegal mining industry. Government officials — who are supposed to be cracking down on this criminal enterprise — are ignoring and even participating in these abusive operations. The government should be protecting its people from such horrors, not aiding their criminal abusers.

Human Rights Watch

Establishment-critical narrative

While Maduro has struggled to cope with falling oil revenue, the reason behind this failing economy is due to US interventions in Venezuelan elections as well as sanctions on its oil industry. For decades now, the US foreign policy establishment has knee-capped every populist politician whose agenda was to democratize government and industry, which is why the people have now been forced into poverty and thus illegal means of making an income.

Truthout

Metaculus Prediction


Establishment split

CRITICAL

PRO

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