Indigenous Aymara ayllus (communal villages) in Bolivia’s Potosí department clashed with police in an attempt to occupy the camp of a Canadian mining company they say is operating on their territory without their consent.
The struggle against the planned Conga gold mine in Peru’s northern region of Cajamarca continues to gain ground, with formation of a “Unitary Struggle Command for the Northern Macroregion and Oriente.”
A clash with National Police left 11 campesinos hurt and eight detained amid an indefinite paro (civil strike) in Espinar province of Peru’s Cuzco region, called to protest pollution caused by local mining operations.
A high alpine lake in the Chilean Andes suddenly disappeared as a natural glacier dam gave way due to rising temperatures—while unprecedented flooding devastates riverine Amazon communities in Peru and Brazil.
World War 4 Report editor Bill Weinberg, just returned from Peru, speaks before New York's Anarchist Forum on the Quechua indigenous struggle against US-backed mining projects and in defense of land, water and autonomy in the Andes.
The Israel Corporation, with holdings in the energy sector across South and Central America, has especially targeted Peru for massive expansion—but found its holdings in Bolivia expropriated in President Evo Morales’ nationalization of the grid.
Venezuela is demanding the US extradite ex-supreme court judge Eladio Aponte to face drug trafficking charges. Aponte was flown to Miami by the DEA after he accused high-ranking Caracas officials of links to drug-trafficking.
Peru’s military marked the 15th anniversary of a commando raid that freed 71 hostage held by leftist rebels—while controversy continues about charges that the rebels were executed after surrendering.
National Police in the service of Antamina company detained 16 campesinos in Peru’s Andean region of Áncash and are holding them at a post on company lands. The arrests follow protests against the mine’s contamination of local waters.
The DEA refuses to confirm claims by the Colombian National Police that top drug lord Javier Antonio Calle Serna AKA “Comba” turned himself in to US agents. Calle Serna’s “Rastrojos” gang is linked to both the FARC and paramilitaries.
World War 4 Report editor Bill Weinberg, just returned from Peru, speaks about the Quechua indigenous struggle against US-backed mining projects and in defense of land, water and autonomy in the Andes.
With lines drawn over the US-backed Conga mining project in Peru’s high Andean region of Cajamarca, the Lima tabloid Perú21 splashes explosive claims that the region has become a critical new zone for cocaine production and trafficking.
