Context⤵️.

Yukpas are the indigenous people from the mountains of Perijá. They are a much less numerous ethnic group compared to their neighbors in the north, the Wayuu people, and a lot more isolated.

While Wayuu people is actually really important -sometimes goodly, sometimes badly- in binational commerce between Venezuela and Colombia, Yukpas on the contrary remained in their mountains until recent years, when they have taken control of the importante road 'Machiques-Colón' which connects Maracaibo with Táchira and the south of Maracaibo Lake's basin.

They have made checkpoints all across that road where they make you pay. If you don't they can break your windows, all in front of police, national guards and nothing happens.

The thing is that the Maduro's regime made with them a deal with the following agreement. Yukpas were going to make traditional handicraft, thousands of pottery and that kind of stuff. The regime would buy it and sell it.

But Maduro's officials didn't pay. So the conflict started.

Yukpas decided to protest. But they started to make something bad. Instead of going against the actual goverment, they started to be harsher in their checkpoints.

This time they installed themselves in El Soler, and people has finally exploded against their abuses.

"The police didn't let us pass around here. But now we're going to get away by their backs. Because yukpas are supposedly arming themselves but we are going for their houses"

I've never imagined to see ethnic violence in this country.

More racial violence in El Soler, Zulia state

More of the chaos caused by the Yukpas in an alleged revenge against citizens of El Soler, Zulia state. There are dozens of injured. Residents returned to the streets in the face of violence by the Yukpas.

about more racial violence between Yukpas and El Soler citizens. an old men was hit in the head,

anti riot police in El Soler

🇻🇪🇬🇾Guyana indicates that it seeks "a definitive and peaceful solution" to the dispute with Venezuela

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Yukpa demonstrations harm food production between Maracaibo and Perijá

The presidents of the Maracaibo Chamber of Commerce (CCM) and Fedecámaras Zulia, Alessandro Nanino and Alex Balza, respectively, spoke about the demonstrations carried out by the Yukpa ethnic group on the Machiques-Colón highway and in sectors of Maracaibo and San Francisco, and in the opinion of both, this behavior of the aborigines causes damage to food production between the capital of Zulia and Perijá.

In this industrial axis, which covers Maracaibo, San Francisco and Troncal 6, from KM 18 to KM 48, 90% of consumer eggs are produced; 90% of AVA food for animals, 70% of pork and between 60 and 70% of chicken in the region, the businessmen highlighted, through an interview on the radio program Hoy Cámara, shared this Tuesday by the CCM on his Instagram.

Old video. From November 2022. But it's for our followers who don't know the context. This is a Yukpa checkpoint, as you can see there are National Guards but they can not do anything against them.

They make those blockades and if you don't pay, they don't let you pass through.

Farmers and cattle raisers in Villa del Rosario and Machiques, both important cattle centers of Zulia suffered a lot. What happened now, is that they are doing it inside the city.

OPEC+ confirms the strong cuts in its supply until the end of the year

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El País: The network that looted PDVSA gave a million dollar apartment to Miss Venezuela 2007

https://acortar.link/8RG74G

Meeting with Colombia is a "great achievement" of the work done "jointly", according to Maduro

https://vpitv.tv/3rJSlg2

🇻🇪🇬🇾National Assembly confirms that a referendum on Essequibo will be held "before the end of the year"

Jorge Rodríguez clarified that the questions to be used in the referendum are not related to defining whether the disputed territory belongs to Venezuela.

US will restart deportations of Venezuelans, Colombians, Haitians and other ilegal migrants who arrives in an effort to reduce record border arrivals.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-venezuela-deportations-reduce-record-border-arrivals/

María Corina Machado arrives in Valencia after attempts to block the roads

In the videos broadcast, through social networks, he assured that "they do not want me to arrive in Valencia, but we will open all the roads in this country. They are afraid"

https://www.la Verdad.com/laVerdad2015/politica/219764