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  • Through telemedicine, the Warao will be able to consult specialists working in Venezuela's best hospitals.

    Nikolas Kozloff: Hugo Chávez's Geopolitical Rivalry Reaching Soaring New Heights 2010

  • Through telemedicine, the Warao will be able to consult specialists working in Venezuela's best hospitals.

    Nikolas Kozloff: Hugo Chávez's Geopolitical Rivalry Reaching Soaring New Heights 2010

  • Among the Warao, another group living in the forests of Brazil, ordinary relations are periodically suspended and replaced by ritual relations, known as mamuse.

    Christopher Ryan: The Prehistory of Prop 8 2010

  • Oil exploration and extraction are potentially the greatest threat to the Orinoco Delta at large, affecting these fragile wetland, the surrounding forests, and the native Warao people who still inhabit the region.

    Orinoco wetlands 2008

  • Once extraction begins settlement and human population pressures increase, which have the effect of increasing hunting, small scale forest clearing for subsistence and materials, and displacement and corruption of the indigenous Warao peoples.

    Orinoco Delta swamp forests 2008

  • One presentation by Venezuelan David Aranguren and 11 other artists focused on the mythology of the country's Warao indigenous group, who live in the Orinoco River Delta.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • In the National Panthenon, Caracas, a building dedicated to Simon Bolivar, representatives of the Warao, Karina and Wayu'u people participated in an act of commemoration.

    Venezuela Analysis 2008

  • The president handed out four land titles; three for the Warao people that will benefit the communities of Remanzon, Las Morochas, and Puerto Amador in the state of Monagas, and one to the Karina people in the community of La Florida, Anzoategui state.

    Venezuela Analysis 2008

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