Wall Street Journalのインスタグラム(wsj) - 11月21日 08時58分

Venezuela's indigenous Pemon people have long served as stewards of Canaima National Park, which embraces Angel Falls, the world's highest uninterrupted waterfall.⠀
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Now the nation's economic calamity has pushed them away from their former livelihoods as tour guides and into digging for gold, marring the surrounding area with massive open-pit mines.⠀
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President Nicolás Maduro sees gold as Venezuela's salvation, promoting it as the remedy for the worst economic crisis in his country's history. Amid deepening food shortages and the exodus of millions of Venezuelans, Mr. Maduro opened a 43,000-square-mile swath north and south of the park to mining for gold and other precious minerals.⠀
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With inflation slated to exceed 1.3 million percent this year, gold has supplanted the worthless national currency, the bolivar, for the Pemon Indians living in hamlets inside the park. In the hamlet of Kamarata, shopkeepers weigh flecks of gold at the counter, charging the equivalent of $4 for a pound of rice or $7 for a gallon of gasoline.⠀
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"We the Pemon were always ecologists, the protectors of this land," said Abrahan Sandoval, the 33-year-old captain, or mayor, of Kamarata. "But the situation has turned us into the destroyers of our own habitat."⠀
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