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Ecuador to export via north Peru pipeline
Ecuador will use the pipeline that links Peru’s northern Amazon oil zone to the Pacific coast to transport crude under a deal the comes despite renewed border tensions.
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Brazil: Xavante territorial rights affirmed following ranchers’ uprising
Brazil’s government reaffirmed a court decision calling for return of usurped lands to the Xavante indigenous people. When Xavante protested at the Rio+20 summit, local ranchers blocked roads and burned bridges.
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Brazil: indigenous tribes occupy Belo Monte dam site
For two weeks the jungle construction site of the planned Belo Monte dam in Brazil’s Pará state has been under occupation by some 200 members of the Xikrin, Arara and other indigenous peoples, many armed with spears.
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Bolivian indigenous leaders “unmask” Evo Morales at Rio People’s Summit
At the People’s Summit being held on the sidelines of the Rio +20 meeting, leaders from Bolivia’s eastern lowlands denounced President Evo Morales for violating the rights of indigenous peoples in the region.
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Bolivia: indigenous opposition to Amazon highway fractures
Indigenous leaders loyal to Evo Morales voted to remove Adolfo Chávez as president of the Confederation of Indigenous Peoples of the Bolivian Oriente (CIDOB)—as CIDOB’s march in protest of a jungle highway advances on La Paz.
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Peru: Amazon highway moves ahead in Congress, indigenous leaders protest
The Transportation Commission of Peru’s Congress approved a new road through remote jungle thought to protect isolated indigenous peoples. Madre de Dios indigenous leaders protested that they were not consulted.
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Peru: Mick Jagger drawn into dispute over expansion of Camisea gas fields
Survival International is calling upon Mick Jagger—recently named by Peru as an “environmental ambassador”—to demand answers on Lima’s “secret plans” to expand the Camisea natural gas bloc into a reserve for “uncontacted” indigenous tribes.
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Peru: Asháninka indigenous people fight hydro scheme in new war zone
The Asháninka indigenous people helped beat back the now-resurgent Shining Path in Peru’s ApurĂmac-Ene River Valley, but now oppose a government hydro-electric mega-project that would flood their traditional territories.
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Peru: army, cabinet shake-up in fallout from Amazon hostage crisis
Two ministers have resigned and the army chief has been sacked after charges that Peru’s armed forced abandoned stranded troops in a guerilla-controlled jungle. Local indigenous residents now charge a “dirty war” is being carried out in the zone.
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Oil company Perenco accused of “1970s-era” methods in Peru’s Amazon
Plans by Anglo-French company Perenco to exploit oil deposits slated to transform Peru’s economy have been slammed as a “1970s-era” project and forecast to cause huge unnecessary environmental damage to the Amazon.
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Peru announces climate change initiative —as illegal logging soars
Peru announced that it will implement its own climate change initiative, in light of the continued absence of an international treaty. But the Environmental Investigation Agency finds that illegal logging thrives in Peru due to endemic corruption.
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Bolivia: Amazon road war escalates again
Indigenous leaders gather in the jungle city of Trinidad for a new cross-country march to oppose the proposed highway through Bolivia’s Amazon region—while supporters of the project pledge to block their advance.