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Protesters again block construction at Belo Monte
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.
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Brazil: indigenous people occupy Congress
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.
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Ecuador, Peru: oil spills foul Pacific coast, Amazon
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.
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Brazil: human trafficking crackdown in Amazon
The Brazilian state of Acre declared a state of “social emergency” in response to a surge of undocumented migrants from neighboring Bolivia and Peru.
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Brazil: Awá tribe’s desperate call to evict loggers
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.
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Brazil: protesters briefly reoccupy Belo Monte dam
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.
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Peru: irregularities seen in Bagua massacre case
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.
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Ecuador: ‘uncontacted’ Amazon group kills two
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.
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Peru: Amazon natives broach separatism
Saying justice is no longer possible within Peru, Awajún and Wampis leaders in Amazonas region announced they plan to seek independence or unite their territory with Ecuador.
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‘Lost tribe’ confirmed in Colombian Amazon
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.
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Brazil: Amazon peoples declare against hydro
The Munduruku indigenous people in the Brazilian Amazon charge that the government is militarizing their lands to quell opposition to mega-scale hydroelectric projects.
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Guyana: miners win ruling over indigenous groups
A judge in Guyana's high court ruled that indigenous groups do not have the right to expel legally titled miners from their traditional lands, sparking protests.