Peru has approved Anglo-French Perenco’s contract to drill for oil in the Amazon—in the wake of a wave of unrest over government develop plans in the region that left at least 30 dead.
The UK-based advocacy group Survival International has published an eyewitness account of the killings in the Peruvian Amazon that caused shockwaves around the world. The report contains dramatic photos by two Belgians, Marijke Deleu and Thomas Quirynen, who were caught… Read morePeru: eyewitness account of Amazon massacre published
Indigenous groups in Peru called off protests after the country’s congress voted to overturn controversial laws decreed by President Alan GarcĂa to implement the US free trade agreement.
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 GarcĂa’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 GarcĂa 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 GarcĂa,” 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.
