MARACAIBO, Venezuela, May 21 (UNHCR) - Hundreds of indigenous Wayúu people have sought refuge in north-western Venezuela after fleeing brutal attacks by armed groups in Colombia. The UN refugee agency ...

Across southern Venezuela, Indigenous communities have been drawn into mining for gold as their traditional way of life has been disturbed and they lack other economic opportunities. Armed groups and ...

Two members of the Wayuu indigenous community claim to have witnessed an unexplained explosion on December 18 in the desert region of northwest Venezuela known as Alta Guajira. The region, as reported ...

This photo of an Awa Guajá couple was taken only five days before their first contact with outsiders in 1992. “Uncontacted peoples reject contact as a deliberate choice in the face of colonizing ...

From the depths of Brazil's Amazon to Indonesia's rainforests, some of the world's most isolated peoples are being squeezed by roads, miners and drug traffickers — a crisis unfolding far from public ...

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's socialist government is renaming a plant it has taken over from U.S.-based multinational Kimberly-Clark Corp after a local indigenous warrior. Tareck El Aissami, ...