On June 5, World Environment Day, Amazon Indians were massacred by the government of Alan Garcia in the latest chapter of a long war to take over common lands—a war unleashed by the signing of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Peru and the United States. […]
Salomón Aguanash Credit:Milagros Salazar/IPS BAGUA, Peru, (IPS) – The Peruvian government described the recent deaths of police officers in clashes with indigenous protesters in the country’s Amazon rainforest as "genocide" at the hands of "extremist […]
An interview with Aviva Chomsky, professor of history and Latin American Studies at Salem State College in Massachusetts.
Chomsky is a founder of the North Shore Colombia Solidarity Committee, which has been working since 2002 with Colombian labor and popular movements, especially those affected by the foreign-owned mining sector. She just returned from a Witness for Peace delegation (May 28 – June 6) that traveled to two regions devastated by coal mining: the state of Kentucky and to northern Colombia. […]
(IPS) Nativos de 356 comunidades que participaron la semana pasada en protestas y choques contra fuerzas del gobierno de Perú, en esta provincia de la región norteña de Amazonas, priorizan ahora el registro de sus […]
Pronuncimiento del Bloque de Organizaciones Campesinas e Indígenas del Norte Amazónico de Bolivia (BOCINAB) Considerando que, de acuerdo a la historia, en la Amazonía los pueblos amazónicos han sido objeto de desprecio, de esclavismo, humillación […]
In Venezuela they are a key force in the country’s ongoing media-war. Armed with video cameras, they are a team of some 380 young people working for Caracas television station, Avila TV. Started as an experiment just three years ago, according to one study it is now the third most watched station in the city. Funded completely by the government, they consider themselves a voice of President Hugo Chavez’s “socialist revolution.” […]
Five thousand Indigenous peoples from across the Americas gathered in the Peruvian highland city of Puno during the last week of May for the Fourth Continental Summit of Indigenous Peoples and Nationalities of Abya Yala. The meeting ended with a massive plenary session that approved resolutions providing alternatives to the capitalist crisis that western civilization is currently experiencing. […]
Source: The Real News Clashes between police and indigenous protesters over drilling for oil and gas in rain forest Recent free trade agreements signed with the American and Canadian governments fueled the government to go […]
Leaders of the two-month roadblock say at least 40 indigenous people, including three children, were killed and that the authorities are covering up the massacre by throwing bodies in the river.
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