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.
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.
Indigenous leaders gather in the jungle city of Trinidad for a new cross-country march to oppose the proposed highway through Bolivia’s Amazon regionâwhile supporters of the project pledge to block their advance.
Peru’s Panamericana TV broadcast an interview with the leader of the Sendero Luminoso guerillas who last week took hostage some 40 Camisea gas pipeline workersâadding further confusion to the already extremely murky affair.
Six days after they were abducted by Shining Path guerillas, hostage Camisea Consortium workers were freed in the rainforest of Peru’s Cuzco regionâbut accounts are sketchy and contradictory on exactly how the captives were released.
A National Police helicopter searching for 40 hostages held by presumed Sendero Luminoso guerillas in a rainforest area of Peruâs Cuzco region was fired upon, killing a police captain on board, and wounding three others.
In a surprise move, Bolivian President Evo Morales rescinded the contract of a Brazilian firm to build a controversial highway through the Amazon rainforest. But opponents of the project suspect a move to undermine their struggle.
Peru’s President Ollanta Humala declared a state of emergency in La ConvenciĂłn province, following the abduction of workers from the Camisea Consortium by presumed guerillas of the Shining Path.
A Brazilian federal judge suspended the construction license of the Teles Pires hydroelectric dam in the Amazon rainforest, saying the permitting process violated the riights of the Kayabi, ApiakĂĄ and Mundurucu indigenous peoples.
Peruâs government is ignoring new UN guidelines on the protection of isolated indigenous peoples in the Amazon, Survival International charged last week. The landmark document was issued by the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Presumed guerillas of the Shining Path seized a work camp of the Camisea Consortium in La Convención province, Cuzco region, holding captive the 30 workers there. Most were released, but seven remain hostage of the guerillas.
Leaders the Isiboro SĂ©cure National Park Indigenous Territory (TIPNIS) in Bolivia’s eastern lowlands voted to hold a new cross-country march on La Paz to oppose construction of a road through their territory.
