Field DispatchPuerto Ayacucho, Amazonas
The Southern Frontier: Puerto Ayacucho, the Organic Mines Law, and the Territorial Gap Between Caracas Concessions and Amazonas Reality
Jeronimo flew south to the capital of Amazonas state to observe what the Organic Mines Law looks like at street level. Three currencies on a single avenue, FANB checkpoints unchanged from the Maduro era, and armed groups that were not at the table when the law passed. The legal scaffolding is in Caracas. The territory is not.
Jeronimo flew south to the capital of Amazonas state to observe what the Organic Mines Law looks like at street level. Three currencies on a single avenue, FANB checkpoints unchanged from the Maduro era, and armed groups that were not at the table when the law passed. The legal scaffolding is in Caracas. The territory is not.