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.
A manhunt has been launched after dozens of prisoners escaped from Bagua Grande prison in Peru‘s Amazonas region and fled into the jungle in a daring jailbreak.
A Canadian oil company has signed a deal with Peru’s government allowing it to explore land inhabited by one of the world’s last uncontacted indigenous tribes.
The Movement of People Harmed by Dams (MAB) protested in BelĂ©m, capital of Brazil’s Pará state, to demand the release of 18 people arrested when police broke up a sit-in at the TucuruĂ dam.
Kichua and Arabela tribesmen are blockading one of the Amazon’s main tributaries, the RĂo Napo, to protest the violation of their land rights by oil companies and Peru’s government.
At least 200 indigenous YashĂnanka and Yines occupied the airport in Atalaya, in Peru’s Amazonian area, to press demands for an end to the granting of local lands for mining and oil drilling.
Peru’s state oil company announced it will auction off up to twelve new “lots” for oil and gas exploration—including in reserves inhabited by uncontacted indigenous tribes.
Colombia’s state oil company Ecopetrol is to enter territory inhabited by some of the world’s last uncontacted indigenous peoples in the Peruvian rainforest under an agreement reached this week.
In a landmark ruling, Brazil’s Supreme Court found that the Raposa-Serra do Sol indigenous reserve in the northern Amazon should be maintained as a contiguous territory.
Ecuador’s government ordered closed the group AcciĂłn EcolĂłgica, days after it had called for sanctions against the consortium that operates the country’s trans-Andean oil pipeline.
