Indigenous people occupy estates and a giant dam’s construction site to press demands for land and rightsâjust as a report resurfaces on atrocities from the past.
Activists have ended their most recent occupation of what is to be the world’s third-largest dam, while the center-left government tries to downplay the protests.
Police removed journalists from a construction site at a giant dam as they tried to cover the site’s latest occupation by indigenous people opposing the project.
Some 700 indigenous representatives occupied Brazil’s lower-house Chamber of Deupites in a final effort to stop attempts to change the law concerning their territorial rights.
Ecuador’s trans-Andean pipeline burst, fouling small farms near the Pacific coast, while Peru declared a state of emergency in the Amazon’s Pastaza Basin over oil contamination.
The Brazilian state of Acre declared a state of “social emergency” in response to a surge of undocumented migrants from neighboring Bolivia and Peru.
An Amazonian indigenous group said to be the Earth’s most threatened tribe has sent an urgent appeal to Brazil’s government to evict invaders from their forest homeland.
Area residents carried out the fifth occupation in less than a year at a construction site for the $13 billion Belo Monte dam to protest environmental damage.
Charges against Amazonian indigenous leaders in Peru related to the 2009 rainforest uprising are to be heard in a special Lima court for "terrorism" and drug trafficking cases.
Reprisals are feared in a sensitive part of Ecuador’s Amazon following an attack by “uncontacted” tribesmen in which two members of the Waorani people were killed.
Saying justice is no longer possible within Peru, AwajĂșn and Wampis leaders in Amazonas region announced they plan to seek independence or unite their territory with Ecuador.
Details are revealed of an anthropologist’s overflight that confirmed the existence of “uncontaced” indigenous groups in a remote area of Colombia’s Amazon basin.
