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New Tribes Mission sent packing from Venezuela

Notts IMC | 14.10.2005 09:53 | Culture | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Yesterday the Venezuelan president Chavez announced that the controversial American Christian missionary group 'New Tribes Mission' were to stop their activities with the countries indigenous communities. The NTM's website states that the organisation is to be 'expelled from the country. [Chavez] did not indicate a specific time, but did say it would be done in an orderly manner.'

For more info, see the NTM website:
 http://ntm.org/

Criticism on the NTM project:
 http://www.eco-action.org/mission/ntm.html

Serious sabotage and damage at New Tribal Missions HQ in the UK (17.10.2002):  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2002/10/43796.html

Housing co-op raided after NTM action:
 https://www4.indymedia.org.uk/en/2002/12/48301.html

Notts IMC

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  1. very well done!!!! — bert
  2. Two comments listed, one found. — Ilyan
  3. not about neocolonialism — Caroline