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The current government of Peru is destroying the Amazon forest and Andean mountains of Peru by allowing multinational corporations to explore and extract natural resources, usually within Indigenous territories, but Native peoples are resisting!
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The government of Alan Garcia in Peru is implementing free trade policies that are demeaning the rights of Indigenous peoples to their territories in the Amazon forest and the Andes mountains. Mining, oil, gas, logging and other extractive industries are damaging the environment, leaving hundreds of thousands of people sick with high levels of air, water and food pollution. Thousands of Andean Indigenous peoples are dying because... (read more)
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PLEASE TAKE ACTION TO DEFEND HUMAN RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE OF PERU!

The government of Alan Garcia in Peru is implementing free trade policies that are demeaning the rights of Indigenous peoples to their territories in the Amazon forest and the Andes mountains. Mining, oil, gas, logging and other extractive industries are damaging the environment, leaving hundreds of thousands of people sick with high levels of air, water and food pollution. Thousands of Andean Indigenous peoples are dying because... (read more)
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UPDATE JUNE 15

As the stability of the government of Peru is weakening, and the social protest continues getting strength, prime minister Yehude Simon made important announcements today. I spoke to the current AIDESEP president and a renowned Peruvian politician.

Minister Simon announced today that the Garcia administration will present a law to Congress in order to repeal the controversial decrees 1090 and 1064, before this Thursday June 18. This agreement came after a meeting of minister Simon with almost 400 Indigenous leaders in the San Ramon region, where the Ashaninkas people had blocked the road to Lima. The government announced that dialogue will continue in Lima, this time with the participation of the AIDESEP leadership.

UPDATE JUNE 11:

Yesterday, Peru's Congress "suspended" two decrees of the conflict but this is a trick to hold and justify a violent repression that might come soon, because in Peru laws cannot be suspended according to its Constitution. Today opposition Congress members started a hunger strike in the Congress building and seven of them were suspended for 3 months. That means more freedom for the government to rule in Congress.

Hundreds of thousands of Peruvians took the streets of main cities and showed their anger against a government that is today a reminiscence of the Fujimori dictatorship, without freedom, with a press controlled and manipulated, with a submissive Congress and a silent and complicit Judiciary.

I spoke to Indigenous leader Miguel Palacín this morning, before the protests. He said that there could be as much as 250 Indigenous people killed in last weekend’s attacks in Bagua. Bodies are missing but list of missing people’s names is available. He said that there is a grass roots movement that will fight to remove Alan Garcia and Congress from power.

In Lima, college students were injured and detained.


UPDATE In the last 60 days, Amazonian Indigenous peoples of Peru are fighting to protect their territories, as the government of Lima has passed 102 decrees that lease 73% of the Amazon forest and allow extractive industries corporations to take over their land, without previous consultation. Especially the Amazonian people want 10 decrees to be revoked.

Strikes are being held in 8 regions of the country, and the government has sent Police and military to repress them violently. The Peru's government pretended it wanted to dialogue, but they were preparing for the best time to attack civilians. So far there are between 34 deaths including civilians and police forces, almost all Indigenous peoples. Some sources say there are 85 deaths or more, over 150 injured and some are disappeared. Violence has slowed as today Sunday June 7, and the military has taken over the control of the region in conflict and the government has issued a warrant arrest for Alberto Pizango, the main leader of the Indigenous peoples. His whereabouts are unknown at this moment.