And So, Don't come out on here.

Don't go on here.

Don't come. The first question that I have is just who you are and what you do and what your

background is. Yeah, my name is Fidel Lagoosta.

The Jupa call me Kupa.

I am an independent militant from the left. In different aspects I have been the last 10 years

with the Yupa people, fighting with them for their rights, their right to land, to education,

dignity, health, access to the wealth of Venezuela.

And yeah, I started to meditate 10 years ago.

No, more.

With Sabino Romero, I was organizing in some school in Caracas, and I radicalized very quickly,

looking at the justice and also I consider myself in a context of an historical context of the

Bolivarian revolution.

I feel very glad to leave such a historical moment like this one we are

living right now. So can you just give a little bit of context of where the Yupka's territory is and kind of the general history of how they were removed and how they had their territory taken.

Yeah, the Yupa are people of the, they are located in the west of the country, in the border with Colombia. They are correct people, not exactly

Caribbean. There is a linguistic confusion there. They are a caribed people like the caribst that fight against the colonizers

when they came five centuries ago.

The Caribs people are known for being very,

for being people of warriors, for the struggle is very iconic in the context of of the colonization.

The Caribbean were in the whole coast of Venezuela and they were killed in the genocide and the yupas took the Sierra as a geographical fortress and they received in that song the last 200 years.

In the first half of the 20th century, land owners with the support of those governments,

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