Source: Americas Program Thousands of indigenous people from the Amazon jungle of Peru accomplished the unthinkable early this month. Their movement to save the Amazon and their communities forced the Peruvian government to roll back […]
Source: Venezuela Analysis Venezuelan Minister for Justice and Internal Affairs, Tarek El-Aissami, accused the governors of opposition-controlled states along the Colombian border of permitting bands of Colombian paramilitary troops to destabilize the region and carry […]
Source: NACLA Correa casts his ballot on election day. (Courtesy Presidencia) The numbers speak for themselves: In April, Rafael Correa was reelected president of Ecuador with 51 percent of the vote. Correa had a 23-point […]
Source: Amazon Watch Before dawn on Friday, June 5, an estimated 650 Peruvian National Police and Special Forces officers attacked several thousand Awajun and Wambis indigenous people at their roadside blockade on the Fernando Belaunde […]
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 […]
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 […]
Source: World War 4 Report Nine more police officers were reportedly killed in a standoff with indigenous protesters in Peru’s Amazonas region June 6, bringing the total dead since the previous day’s police attack on […]
Source: NACLA On June 6, near a stretch of highway known as the Devil’s Curve in the northern Peruvian Amazon, police began firing live rounds into a multitude of indigenous protestors – many wearing feathered […]
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