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Our missionaries are ordered out!
October 19, 2005
My church, Redeemer Presbyterian supports some wonderful missionaries in Venezuela through New Tribes Missions. The Muttis bring food, medicine, dentistry and the gospel to Amazon tribal people. They have suffered from malaria, civil unrest and scores of other challenges. Now Hugo Chavez wants them out - they are spies for the CIA. At least that's what the headlines read. I've been following it for a week now wondering what the people of Venezuela may be thinking. Well, hear is a sample of the conspiracy theories that seem to abound.
Carlos Pietri writes in Venezuela Electonic News: VHeadline.com - Missionary camps established in the vicinity of highly strategic mineral deposits:
For an unknown reason, they (missionaries) always chose places of great strategic importance as: Tama-Tama (the point where the Orinoco River branched with the Casiquiare River ... from where someone can exercise the absolute control over navigation on both the rivers. They also established their camps in the vicinity of highly strategic mineral deposits, specially of radioactive value (i.e. uranium).
All the world knows than the government of the United States of America has planned ... among other things ... to penetration of these lands under the guise of religious missions in almost the same way they did to take possession of the ancient kingdom of Hawaii.
Thru the people's faith they take possession of their cost-reducing activities ... by bribes and economic control, they take political power and, finally, incite separatism of the sovereign nation aiming to support them to append it to (North) American union.
And there are many things more behind those plots: to mention one, there are many clandestine airports thru which they take out precious stones and/or radioactive metals like uranium. • All this is very Anglo-Saxon, very North American and with the CIA's characteristic seal of approval and mysterious impunities.
We pray that the government listens to the people who New Tribes has ministered to for years.
"New Tribes Mission in Venezuela has been a very important source of support," said Jose Kayupare of the Puinave people. "For those of us who live in the jungle, [NTM's expulsion] really is a decision that the majority of indigenous people in Amazonas don't support." Kayupare, who was born in the dense jungles of the southern state of Amazonas, stated that NTM has helped impoverished Indian communities ravaged by malaria and other diseases, sometimes airlifting the sick to medical assistance.
