Guaire Miners
The Guaire River Miners, also known as Guaire River Garimpeiros, is the name given to the people who search for metals in the Guaire River, a 72-kilometer-long river in Caracas, Venezuela that is highly contaminated with sewage. The miners are mainly minors, homeless people or Blue-collar worker, blue-collar workers who lost their jobs due to the shutdown of government works or whose salaries are not enough to subsist and do not want to resort to crime. Despite being a practice that dates back to at least 1994, as of 2016 the number of people engaged in this trade increased to dozens and even hundreds during the 2013–present economic crisis in Venezuela, Venezuelan economic crisis, characterized by Hyperinflation in Venezuela, hyperinflation and Shortages in Venezuela, shortages. History Searching for metals in the Guaire River is a practice that has existed for decades in Caracas. In 1994, journalist Anna Vaccarella in the program "Alerta" broadcast by RCTV, Radio Caracas Tele ...
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