The French firm Perenco, slated for a massive contract in Peru’s Amazon region, is having its income from oil revenues frozen in neighboring Ecuador following a tax dispute.
A group of 300 Awá hunter-gatherer nomads is fleeing from bulldozers in the Brazilian Amazon as their last forest is rapidly destroyed, Survival International reports.
At the World Social Forum in Belem, Brazil, President Rafael Correa was condemned by Ecuador’s national indigenous peoples’ organization CONAIE over his policy towards uncontacted Amazon tribes.
Illegal gold-miners shot dead a Yekuana indigenous leader and injured his son last week in the Brazilian state of Roraima. The two men had refused to take the miners up dangerous rapids into Yanomami country.
The Constitutional Court of Ecuador issued a long-awaited ruling in favor of those affected by the transnational oil company Chevron, which operated through its subsidiary Texaco in Ecuador between 1964 and 1990. Chevron will now have to pay $9.5 billion for the repair and remediation of social and environmental damage that, according to audits and expert reports, were a result of oil company operations in the Amazonian provinces of Sucumbíos and Orellana. The court found that Chevron deliberately dumped billions of gallons of toxic oil waste on indigenous lands in the Amazon rainforest. (Photo via Mongabay)
Indigenous people from across Latin America led more than 1,000 protesters, gathered in Belem, Brazil, for the World Social Forum, in formation of a human banner Jan. 27. Around the giant outline of a warrior taking aim with a bow… Read moreWorld Social Forum protests Amazon destruction
Peru’s Energy Ministry announced that Anglo-French Perenco’s Amazon oil pipeline project needs to be “reevaluated” due to falling prices. The project is slated for an area where uncontacted tribes are said to exist.
The indigenous community of Huampami in the Peruvian Amazon is holding employees of a Canadian-backed mining concern hostage to protest what they say are illegal operations on their lands.
An Anglo-French oil company is poised to send more than 1,000 workers into a remote part of the Peruvian Amazon inhabited by uncontacted indigenous tribes. The company, Perenco, has just been given the go-ahead from the Peruvian government to drill… Read morePeru: oil company poised to enter uncontacted tribes’ territory
French president Nicolas Sarkozy and Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed a $12 billion strategic partnership agreement in Rio de Janeiro on Dec. 23, the second day of Sarkozy’s official visit to Brazil. The two presidents also finalized… Read moreBrazil: arms deal signed with France
A Brazilian rancher suspected of orchestrating the 2005 murder of Sister Dorothy Stang, a US-born nun who spoke out against logging in the Amazon rainforest, is to be charged in the killing and brought to trial following his arrest for… Read moreRancher to face charges in 2005 slaying of activist nun in Amazon
