Los helicópteros militares de las Fuerzas Armadas de Venezuela han sobrevolado desde el martes el enclave minero de Las Claritas, al sur del país, en la frontera con Brasil. La maniobra es parte de una operación militar que ha desplegado el Gobierno como paso necesario para cristalizar las inversiones extranjeras que ha ofrecido Estados Unidos. Desde hace años, el lugar está tomado por grupos criminales, entre ellos la guerrilla colombiana del ELN, en complicidad con funcionarios, que son quienes en la práctica explotan el potencial minero de Venezuela.

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María Emely Delgado crossed paths with Carmen Navas several times this year: at the offices of the NGO Foro Penal, at the Public Ministry, and once at the El Rodeo prison on the outskirts of Caracas. Delgado is 63 years old, Navas was 82. Both were looking for their sons, who disappeared after being arbitrarily detained. Carmen Navas died 10 days after finding her son Víctor Hugo in a cemetery. She had spent 16 months searching for him. María Emely has still not found Jorgen. “You have to be in these shoes to know what this is like,” says the retired teacher, who has been wearing them for almost two years. “Her son had been missing for less time than mine; with Jorgen I’m now coming up on 22 months without news of him.”

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