Pemon or Pemong (in Spanish: Pemón) is a Carib language spoken mainly in Venezuela, specifically in the regions Bolivar State, Gran Sabana, an estimated 4,800 people in Venezuela speak Pemon. To some extent Pemon is also spoken in Brazil and Guyana (1000+ people).
The Pemon indigenous people continue to fight against the construction of a high-voltage power line in the south-eastern Gran Sabana region, that will cross the Brazilian border.
They wonder what is the use of having a new Constitution, indigenous representatives at the National Assembly and even an indigenous individual as Minister for the Environment, if in every case the Pemon will be condemned to disappear.
The disruption of modern economy activities in the area --under the form of high voltages power lines, mining and luxury tourism-- would mean the destruction of their livelihoods and culture, based in the simplicity of nature and a life in harmony with it.
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