Misión Guaicaipuro (launched 12 October 2003) is one of the
Bolivarian Missions
The Bolivarian missions are a series of over thirty social programs implemented under the administration of former Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez and continued by Chávez's successor, Nicolás Maduro. The programs focus on helping the mos ...
initiated by former
Venezuela
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n president
Hugo Chávez
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. The program is carried out by the Venezuelan Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources. It seeks to restore communal land titles and human rights to Venezuela's numerous indigenous communities, in addition to defending these rights against resource and financial
speculation
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by the dominant culture. The mission is named for the famous Venezuelan indigenous tribal chief
Guaicaipuro
Cacique Guaicaipuro was a legendary native (indigenous) Venezuelan chief of both the Teques and Caracas tribes. Though known today as Guaicaipuro, in documents of the time his name was written Guacaipuro.http://www.saber.ula.ve/bitstream/handle/ ...
, who was instrumental in leading native resistance against Spanish colonization of Venezuela.
Development
First stage
The mission was originally created by Presidential Decree 3,040 in 2004, under the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources. In 2005 he was attached to the Ministry of Participation and Social Development.
Second stage
On 29 August 2007, by Decree 5,551, there was a partial reform and the Presidential Commission Guaicaipuro Mission was established in Ordinary Gazette number 38758, was then attached to the Ministry of Popular Power for Indigenous Peoples.
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See also
* Urban Land Committees
References
External links
Misión Guaicaipuro
— Official government link.
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Bolivarian missions
2003 establishments in Venezuela