VIOLATIONS OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEVASTATION OF THE VENEZUELAN AMAZON

The Venezuelan legal framework established as of 1999 the express recognition of the specificity of the rights of indigenous peoples, as well as the ratification of Convention 169 of the International Labor Organization and legislative processes that developed the constitutional and conventional precepts together with the constitutional status in general of human rights treaties, placing Venezuela at the forefront of the protection of the human rights of indigenous peoples. Likewise, it collected a series of guarantees and rights for the protection of the environment, to which should be added the prior subscription of a series of treaties that establish obligations regarding the protection of the environment and the biodiversity.