Peru: priest promoting highway in area of uncontacted indigenous group

Posted on August 14, 2012 • Filed under: Latin America Indigenous Issues, Peru

Evidence of indigenous people living in “voluntary isolation” in a remote part of the Amazon has been found where an Italian Catholic priest is campaigning for Peru’s government to build a highway. The discovery is controversial because the priest has questioned the existence of the isolated people, sometimes referred to as uncontacted, who live without regular contact with anyone else. Read Article

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