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Illicit gold mining and trafficking continues to pose a major challenge to the region’s security and stability, all while financially benefiting the criminal Maduro narco-regime in Venezuela, illicit actors, destroying ecosystems, and causing human rights abuses across the region.
U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Bob Menendez (D-NJ) reintroduced the United States Legal Gold and Mining Partnership Strategy Act to prevent illicit gold mining in multiple developing countries in the region.
- “As the Maduro regime and transnational criminal organizations continue to enrich themselves from illicit gold mining, we must double down on our efforts to crack down on this corrupt enterprise. This bipartisan bill will ensure our nation has a coordinated strategy to counter this illegal activity.” — Senator Rubio
- “The illicit mining and trafficking of gold in Latin America and the Caribbean funds transnational criminal organizations, degrades our hemisphere’s rain forests and biodiversity, facilitates human rights abuses, and helps prop up brutal dictatorships like that of Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro. The United States must do more to develop and implement a strategy to combat these harmful effects and work with international and private stakeholders to promote responsible gold supply chains, and I am proud to help lead this bill to do just that.” — Senator Menendez, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
The bill would require the President to establish a strategy to break linkages between artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) and illicit actors; block illicit actors’ financing; discourage ASM mining in environmentally protected areas; aid ASM miners to formalize their business activities; increase capacity; and use environmentally sustainable practices, and support socioeconomic development programs, law enforcement capacity-building, and international initiatives.
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- November 2022: Rubio, Menendez Introduce Legislation to Curb Illicit Gold Mining, Deprive Maduro Regime of Revenue
- October 2021: Rubio, Cruz, Tillis Introduce Bill to Disrupt Illicit Metals Mining and Trafficking
- September 2021: English/ Español: Rubio Joins Menendez, Colleagues in Introducing Resolution on Illicit Gold Mining in Latin America
- December 2019: Rubio Chairs Hearing on Illicit Mining and its Impacts on Security and Human Rights
La minería y el tráfico ilícito de oro continúa siendo un gran desafío para la seguridad y la estabilidad de la región, al mismo tiempo que beneficia financieramente al narco-régimen criminal de Maduro en Venezuela y a otros actores ilícitos. Todo mientras destruye ecosistemas y causa abusos de DDHH en toda la región.
Los senadores estadounidenses Marco Rubio (R-FL) y Bob Menendez (D-NJ) introdujeron una vez más, una legislación para prevenir la minería de oro ilegal en la región.
- “A medida que el régimen de Maduro y las organizaciones criminales transnacionales continúan enriqueciéndose con la minería ilegal de oro, debemos redoblar nuestros esfuerzos para tomar medidas enérgicas contra estas iniciativas corruptas. Esta legislación bipartidista asegurará que EE.UU. tenga una estrategia coordinada para contrarrestar esta actividad ilícita”. — Senador Rubio
- “La minería y el tráfico ilícito de oro en América Latina y el Caribe financian a organizaciones criminales transnacionales, degradan los bosques tropicales y la biodiversidad de nuestro hemisferio, facilitan abusos de derechos humanos y ayudan a sostener dictaduras brutales como la de Nicolás Maduro en Venezuela. Estados Unidos debe hacer más para desarrollar e implementar una estrategia que combata de frente estos efectos dañinos y trabaje con todos los grupos internacionales y del sector privado para promover cadenas de suministro de oro responsables. Estoy orgulloso de ayudar a liderar este proyecto de ley para hacer precisamente eso”. —Senador Menendez, Presidente del Comité de Relaciones Exteriores del Senado.
La legislación requeriría que el presidente de EE.UU. establezca una estrategia para romper los vínculos entre la minería artesanal y la de pequeña escala (ASM, por sus siglas en inglés) al igual que busca bloquear el financiamiento de actores ilícitos; desalentar la minería ASM en áreas ambientalmente protegidas; ayudar a los mineros de ASM a formalizar sus actividades comerciales; aumentar la capacidad; y utilizar prácticas ambientalmente sostenibles, y apoyar los programas de desarrollo socio-económico, la creación de capacidad para hacer cumplir la ley y las iniciativas internacionales.
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- Noviembre 2022: Rubio, Menéndez Presentan Legislación para Frenar Minería de Oro Ilegal, Privando Ingresos del Régimen de Maduro
- Septiembre de 2021: Rubio se Une a Menéndez y Colegas Presentando Resolución Sobre Minería Ilegal de Oro en LATAM
- Diciembre de 2019: Rubio preside audiencia sobre minería ilegal y sus impactos en temas de seguridad y DDHH