Peru recalled its ambassador to June 16 after President Evo Morales described the recent killings of indigenous protesters in the Peruvian Amazo as “genocide.”
Senior figures in Peru are threatening a clamp-down on both Peruvian and foreign NGOs in the wake of the violent protests which have erupted in the country’s Amazon region.
Peru’s Prime Minister Yehude Simon said he will resign after submitting a bill to congress to repeal President Alan García’s decrees on opening the Amazon to corporate exploitation.
Brazil’s Senate approved a bill regulating government transfers of land in the Amazon region that environmental groups say will enable companies and individuals to keep lands they seized illegally.
Peruvian authorities shit down Radio La Voz de Bagua on grounds that it encouraged the Amazon protest movement, while opposition lawmakers were suspended for protesting the Amazon repression.
Peru’s congress temporarily suspended two decrees issued by President Alan García that would open vast areas of the Amazon to corporate exploitation, as protests mount across the country.
By order of President Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua granted asylum to Alberto Pizango, the Peruvian indigenous leader wanted on charges of sedition for leading protests in the Amazon.
Peru’s largest labor confederation, the CGTP, condemned “the slaughter ordered by the government of President Alan García,” referring to the repression of indigenous protests in the Amazon.
Indigenous protesters armed with spears are seizing raods across Peru’s Amazonas region, as the death toll since Friday’s police attack on a road blockade rose to an estimated 60.
Peruvian national police forces staged a violent raid on a group of indigenous people at a peaceful blockade on a road in remote Amazonas region, leaving at least 25 dead and many more injured.
Indigenous protesters seized two valves on the pipeline that moves natural gas from Peru’s Camisea field in the Amazon to the Pacific coast, and pledge to resist army troops that have been sent in.
The General Confederation of Peruvian Workers (CGTP) held a one-day nationwide strike in support of indigenous people protesting in the Amazon region against corporate exploitation of their lands.
