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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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very well done!!!!

15.10.2005 14:29

very well done and very good idea!!!!
one more good punch!!! mr. chavez!!!!!!
fuck off missionars pricks from all over the world.

bert

Two comments listed, one found.

16.10.2005 09:07

One comment found where there were two? Were both the originals deleted by the poster who misuses the language? That should also be good enough reason for deletion.

Ilyan

not about neocolonialism

30.10.2005 21:39

Whilst I welcome this move to expel the NTM from the Venezuelan Amazon I hope it's not just considered as another one of President Chávez's attempts to stick it to the US Administration. I live in Venezuela and there are certainly issues with the way these missionaries have exploited the resources of the state of Amazonas and catachising the numerous indigenous groups with their own sense of spiritual and cultural superiority, all whilst living in their own communities with electricity and other luxuries in this region. This was well done, but I wish Chávez wouldn't use it as part of his "annoy the Americans any way I can" rhetoric.

Caroline