The state of Peru has apologized to the families of those kidnapped and killed nine farmers by the Colina Group in 1992 in the Santa, the capital of the province, located in the department of Ancash (west). The secretary of the High Level Multisectoral Commission (CMAN), Isabel Coral, and the executive secretary of the National Council for Human Rights, José Burnet, have been responsible for expressing the state forgiveness to the families of the victims.Read Article
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In a case reminiscent of the movie Avatar, a tree symbolic to the Cofán people of southern Colombia is threatened by construction of a military base. The base is the latest in a string of incursions that have squeezed the Cofán into a smaller and smaller area in the Guamuez Valley region of Putumayo, near […]
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More than a thousand children under 18 have died in the fight against organized crime, denounced the executive director of the Network for the Rights of Children in Mexico (Redim), Juan Martín Pérez García, who stressed that the figures have increased, for while in 2007 there were 5.3 homicides of children per 100 000 inhabitants […]
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Guide to Documentary Sources for Andean Studies, 1530-1900. THREE VOLUME SET [Hardcover] – Recorded interview with editor Dr. Joanne Pillsbury (Recording Time- 01:31:16 ) Recorded October 28, 2011. Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Press (2008) – Published in Collaboration with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art. PURCHASE BOOK:Guide to […]
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Aborted highway project through TIPNIS, now Brazil’s government hopes the highway linking the departments of Cochabamba and Beni is realized at the mercy of an alternative route that satisfies all stakeholders. The construction of the road, valued three years ago at $ 415 million was awarded, precisely in 2008, Brazil’s OAS on the basis of […]
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Bolivia President Moves to Reroute TIPNIS Road Indigenous Bolivians from the National Park and Indigenous Territory Isiboro Secure (TIPNIS) won a major concession from President Evo Morales today. The President announced he would change the text of a proposed law so it prohibits construction of a controversial government-backed road planned through the TIPNIS. The new […]
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Amazon Indians who walked 600 km over 65 days, to protest the construction of a road through a nature reserve on Wednesday triumphantly entered La Paz to demand the government of President Evo Morales to cancel the project. The column, consisting of nearly two thousand Indians came out in August from the Amazon and in […]
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In July 2010, Peru and Brazil signed an energy agreement to develop five mega projects in the Peruvian Amazon with a total estimated potential of 6700 MW. The idea is not only satisfy domestic demand but also the energy demand in Brazil. The question many are asking is, at what cost?. According to many analysts […]
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In exclusive video obtained by Environmental News shows how voluntarily isolated indigenous people faced that transited by boat along the Madre de Dios River. The footage shows the rejection of the natives to what they apparently saw as interference in the territories they inhabit.The images were recorded in May this year in the buffer zone […]
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In Mexico, “45 percent” of trafficking victims are indigenous girls, Rosi released Orozco, president of the Special Commission for Combating Trafficking in Persons, and Xavier Abreu Sierra, CEO of National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples (CDI), who expressed the urgent need for a comprehensive law to combat crime that robs children of more […]
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COESIDA reports that in Oaxaca there are 996 thousand infected with the virus, of which 86 are children.Based on the latest report of the State Council for the Prevention of AIDS (COESIDA) in the state of Oaxaca has killed more than 2 000 people in the last 25 years because of this virus, as reported […]
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Bolivian natives angry over plans to build a highway through an Amazon nature preserve resumed their protest march Saturday after a violent police crackdown a week ago, a top demo leader said. The march began at daybreak in the town of Quiquibey, some 300 kilometers (186 miles) northeast of La Paz, protest leader Rafael Quispe […]
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Indians oppose the construction of a route segment that the Bolivian government funded building projects in Brazil. Aparentemente, la carretera partirá en dos el Parque Nacional Isiboro Sécure (TIPNIS), que ocupa un millón de hectáreas ricas en flora y fauna y habitadas por varias etnias amazónicas. Apparently, the road split in two Isiboro Secure National […]
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After Monte Alban a ritual involving the members of the Peace Caravan, Javier Sicilia noted that the San Andrés agreements are pending in the nation and that he signed the former President Ernesto Zedillo on behalf of the country, “and as we are not traitors, we come to demand that autonomy and respect. They said […]
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Revistagobierno.com reported that Brazil’s Guarani Indians demanded that the energy giant Shell to stop using their ancestral lands for the production of ethanol. Vilhalva Ambrosio, a Guaraní man of one of the affected communities, said Survival International : “Shell should leave our land … the companies should stop using Indian land. We want justice, we […]
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The persistence of armed conflict exacerbates the situation of continued forced displacement of more than 1,000 members of the indigenous people living Jiw in the departments of Meta and Guaviare. His return is not possible at the moment despite the efforts of the authorities and humanitarian agencies. San Jose del Guaviare, Colombia, September 6 (UNHCR) […]
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Bolivian Cardinal Julio Terrazas Sandoval, Archbishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, has appealed for people to take into account the concerns of the TIPNIS indigenous communities who are currently marching on the capital La Paz to protest against government plans to erase more than 2,300 square miles of rain forest over two decades to […]
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The Polemics of Possession in Spanish American Narrative – Recorded interview with author Dr. Rolena Adorno (Recording Time – 02:02:17) Recorded August 26, 2011. PURCHASE BOOK:The Polemics of Possession in Spanish American Narrative Winner of the 2008 Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, given by the Modern Language Association. In this book on early Latin American narrative, […]
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Bolivia’s President Evo Morales is never shy when it comes to accusing the US of meddling in the Andean nation’s domestic affairs. This time he says the US is behind a march of more than a thousand indigenous Bolivians protesting a highway that will bisect their territory. Read Article
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The Tagaeri and Taromenane two uncontacted indigenous peoples of the Ecuadorian Amazon, whose mysterious existence, isolated from the world, feed stories, fables and stories from the depths of the jungle. An unknown number of people that form each of these groups and, in fact, some researchers believe that the Tagaeri disappeared, while other groups are […]
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The UN has launched a campaign today to celebrate the International Day of Indigenous Peoples which will attempt to save 35 indigenous communities that are at risk of extinction. Semana.com reports that these indigenous Colombian suffer from homicides, persecutions and other crimes at the hands of armed groups. The indigenous groups at risk of extinction […]
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Brazil’s national Indian foundation, Funai, said that the isolated area housing the group had been “invaded and looted” in late July by “Peruvian drug traffickers”. Orange-painted residents of the region in the state of Acre, about 20 miles from the Brazil-Peru border, were pictured there in 2008, firing arrows at an overflying plane. Read Article
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The proposed wind farm project in Acunud, Chile was unanimously approved by the Commission of Environmental Assessment despite opposition by indigenous and local citizens informed Biobiochile.cl. Indigenous leaders arrived at the commissions office to demand an ecological impact study before the approval, which committee members appealed since it is not required by law. The project, […]
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Residents of four townships, two in Veraguas and two of the Ngobe Bugle, halted the Pan-American highway for an hour and a half near the Ojo de Agua neighborhood due to unfulfilled promises by the government informed La Estrella. Their demands for the construction of 8 miles of road and the installation of electricity in […]
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According to ElUniverso.com in one week 137 people have contracted food poisoning from eating bad food in the canton of Imbabura. Health officials say the first cases of food poisoning occurred eight days ago when 58 people came down with salmonella poisoning after eating infected red meat in a local meat restaurant. The second case […]
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Rigoberta Menchu, Guatemalan indigenous leader and Nobel Peace prize winner, is now officially a presidential candidate for elections taking place next September 11 reported Andina. Menchu is the ninth presidential candidate recognized an endorsed by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal. This is the second running for Menchu, she also ran in 2007 but received a low […]
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Once the backbone of President Rafael Correa’s support, the government is persecuting Ecuador’s indigenous population with heavy charges in an attempt to curb social protest. According to the Center for Economic and Social Rights, a rights group, 189 indigenous Ecuadorians have been charged with terrorism, sabotage and other crimes against public safety. The charges appear […]
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Around 15 Indians were injured by police forces during mining protests at the intersection of San Felix in the Ngobe Bugle region reported La Estrella. Those who were injured were mostly women, which the police shot with pellets ruthlessly. The indigenous groups are requesting medical reports to file a lawsuit against the national police responsible […]
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Police in the province of Veraguas meet with indigenous leaders to reach an agreement on security issues reported Sucesos Critica. The reunion was held in the Nurum district, and the attendees included nine magistrates of the area, the district mayor, and member of the Ngobe Bugle community. The representatives of the county are requesting more […]
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According to AmazonWatch.org, a pipeline rupture in Maple Energy’s Oil Block 31-E, 75 miles north of the city of Pucallpa, spilled crude oil into the Mashiria River, the primary source of drinking water and key fishing ground for the neighboring indigenous Shipibo community of Nuevo Sucre, this past Sunday. The local operator for the Dublin […]
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According Agenica Venezolana de Noticias, on August 9 the indigenous community in Panama will lead a national strike and march to the capital due to a breach of Changuinola agreements by President Ricardo Martinelli. The strike was decided by the General Conference of indigenous regions, who were enraged by the government’s failure to compensate indigenous […]
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Panama is willing to face the challenge of increased rates of energy consumption due to rapid development in the domestic and industrial sector of the country indicated Prensa Latina. Major electricity interconnection projects are underway with Central America and Colombia. The General Secretariat of Energy has addressed concern to the completion of feasibility studies on […]
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CHERÁN, Mexico, “Our patience has run out,” says Mary, an indigenous woman with three children to care for on her own, since her husband was kidnapped from his home by an armed group. In this town in western Mexico, local residents have begun to defend themselves with sticks and stones against illegal loggers and organised […]
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PERU Indigenous Women Weave New Community Ties By Milagros Salazar Vilma Matías weaving on a loom at the Lucanamarca workshop. Credit:Milagro Salazar/IPS Buy this picture LUCANAMARCA, Peru, Fuchsia, green and turquoise yarn shuttles swiftly across the wooden loom Dora Huancahuari has learned to use. Together with other craftswomen, she has started a small weaving business […]
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Anti-mining protests in the region of Puno, Peru that caused five deaths and a road blockages to Bolivia finally ended, this past week, with increased government protocol for the protection of natural resources, reported infobae.com. The strikes often led to bloody confrontations with the police, and the burning of vehicles and buildings as public demonstrations […]
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Peru’s government has cancelled the concession for Vancouver-based Bear Creek Mining’s (TSX-V: BCM) Santa Ana silver project in Puno region amid protests that turned deadly on Friday. Authorities held talks with protest leaders on Friday and, after 10 hours of negotiations, agreed to repeal the supreme decree which authorized the company to explore the concession. […]
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Thousands of protesters opposed to mining and energy projects in southern Peru have taken over an airport as the government struggled to restore calm a day after five died in a clash with police. Officials said approximately 3,000 protesters had occupied the runway at the Juliaca airport in the region of Puno on Saturday. Several […]
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The jar of Severed Hands Spanish Deportation of Apache Perisoners of War 1770-1810 – Recorded Interview with author Mark Santiago (Recording Time – 01:08:26) The Jar of Severed Hands: The Spanish Deportation of Apache Prisoners of War, 1770-1810 Explores colonial Spanish-Apache relations in the Southwest borderlands More than two centuries after the Coronado Expedition first […]
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Pachakutik and the Rise and Decline of the Ecuadorian Indigenous Movement- Recorded interview with co-author Dr. Scott H. Beck (Dr. J. Mijeski) (Recording Time – 01:16:21) Pachakutik and the Rise and Decline of the Ecuadorian Indigenous Movement (Ohio RIS Latin America Series) The mobilization of militant indigenous politics is one of the most important stories […]
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According to ElComercio.pe talks between the Ministries of Energy and Mines, Agriculture and the Interior with the group of Aymara leaders continued on Saturday without resolution. Dialogue held on Friday included a proposal of concessions from both parties to end the mining strike. The Aymara leaders rejected the proposal, continuing the fight for the cancellation […]
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According to ELUnivierso.com the president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) Humberto Cholango asked today that the Constitutional Court of Ecuador maintain the rights and freedoms of indigenous justice. This allows the indigenous communities to judge and sentence their accused. Ecuador was declared a multinational state and an intercultural society. The justice […]
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In an agreement made yesterday at a United Nations conference in Geneva, Paraguay accepted recommendations to review abortion laws and indigenous rights proposed during the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in February, according to abc.com.py. During the most recent UPR, a basic examination of human rights issues that takes place every 4 years, it was suggested […]
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For the first time in the history of the Regional Council of the indigenous of Cauca (CRIC), a Catholic priest was elected as its highest authority. Rev. Jesus Chavez, a native of Tierradentro and of the town of Inza, was already a leader of the Paez community – Belalcázar – in Colombia. He also served […]
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A ruling by Chile’s Supreme Court on Friday failed to persuade four Mapuche Indian activists to give up a long-running hunger strike against the government’s use of a tough anti-terrorism law to crack down on their efforts to regain ancestral lands. Read Article
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The Interior Minister, Miguel Hidalgo Medina, said the residents of the southern Puno, concentrated in the capital of the region, began way back to their communities after a meeting held by its leaders in the highland town. Read Article
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The chairman of the Natural Resources Defense of the Southern Region, Walter Aduviri said the Aymara nation “will not lift the strike” The Defence Committee of Natural Resources of the Southern Region of Puno continue its indefinite strike last night even though the executive authorities agreed to suspend for one year highland mining concessions and […]
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The Napo Runa of Amazonian Ecuador – Recorded interview with Dr.Michael Uzendoski – (Recording Time – 01:25:49) Purchase Book – The Napo Runa of Amazonian Ecuador (Interp Culture New Millennium) (See all Cultural Anthropology Books) An indigenous Amazonian group’s enlightening perspectives on value, reproduction, and exchange Based upon historical and archival research, as well as […]
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Dr. Marc Becker is a professor of history at Truman State University. Specializing in Ecuadorian Indigenous issues and politics he is an author of several books dealing with Ecuador. His recent book “Pachakutik – Indigenous Movements and Electoral Politics in Ecuador” is an excellent study of politics in Ecuador. He has been kind enough to […]
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Critical is the health of the four Mapuche political prisoners held in prison in Angola, which are now serving 63 days on hunger strike. Héctor Llaitul , 43 years old, has dropped 20 kilos since he began fasting on 15 March, and has weakness, cramps in his limbs, insomnia and intense headache. Huillical Jonathan , […]
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With 13 votes (on the right and one of the Concertación), 5 against and 6 abstentions, the Senate of Chile adopted on 11 May 91 UPOV Convention to prevent the peasants and indigenous peoples to save the seed and extend the lifetime of the rights and interests of transnational corporations selling hybrid and transgenic seeds […]
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800 to 1000 Indigenous Protestors Block the Highway Between Medellín and Quibdó • Eltiempo.com reports that the highway has been blocked starting 04:00 on Wednesday and through Thursday night for health care and other promises made by the government. • April 4th saw a similar protest against EPS Caprecom for the expansion of reservation areas […]
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Bolivia was the site of a mass wedding with 350 couples married at the same time. The Andean mass wedding had all couples married in accordance to their customs and traditions of their Indian heritage. “Indian religious leaders presided over the wedding as did symbolically Pachamama — the earth deity of the Aymara and Quechua […]
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LESSONS FROM A QUECHUA STRONGWOMAN: IDEOPHONY, DIALOGUE, AND PERSPECTIVE – Recorded author interview with Dr. Janis B. Nuckolls – (Recording Time – 54:41) Purchase Book – Lessons from a Quechua Strongwoman: Ideophony, Dialogue and Perspective (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies) Using the intriguing stories and words of a Quechua-speaking woman named Luisa Cadena […]
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Ecuador’s national indigenous organization announced last week that is filing a legal complaint against the government, including President Rafael Correa, for complicity with “genocide” against indigenous people in the Amazon. Read Article
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The snow-capped mountains surrounding the poor Bolivian city of El Alto are considered to be gods by the indigenous Aymarans who live there. Camped in tents blanketed in purifying smoke, the Aymaran witch doctors – called Yatiri – make offerings to these gods and ask them to help predict the future. Read Article
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The Nukak-Maku tribe, nomads discovered only 23 years ago who number no more than 600, is struggling to adapt after Colombian guerrillas chased them from their homes deep inside the country’s lush tropical forests. “Llego la plata” (“the money is coming”), someone murmured from inside a palm leaf hut crowded with 10 adults and two […]
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The victims of forced sterilization program that the IMF demanded that the president Fujimori seeking justice in the Peruvian courts. She was 30 when I had the operation and since then I almost useless in the field, “says Cléofl Neira, 50, from the door of her adobe house. In Yanguil, a village a few hundred […]
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In a letter sent from prison, Mapuche leader Héctor Llaitul criticized the political backing of the verdict against him and three other community members. The Mapuche imprisoned in Angol have been on hunger strike since 15 March. The leader of the Coordinadora Arauco Malleco (CAM) held that the trial of Cañete is part of the […]
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Even the Military Prosecutor of Valdivia arrived Mapuche community representatives Panguipulli to denounce police officers for abuses committed in the area. The parliament werken Koz Koz, Jorge Hueque, said that the police exceeded their authority to care for the farm Trafún owned forestry enterprise Vertientes, conducting illegal searches of the area communities. Read Article
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The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) is planning to withdraw on Saturday 23 April the baton to the president, Rafael Correa, by an act to be held in the parish Zumbahua, in the province of Cotopaxi. The ceremony will also include the presence of several organizations in Cotopaxi, assembly members, leaders and the […]
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The Xingu river flows around small isles and islands and across rapids and waterfalls in Brazil’s Amazon jungle, and has a dramatically reduced flow during dry season. Navigating it presents constant hurdles and risks. Read Article
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n order that the Indians have access to higher education in Hidalgo, the Otomi Indian Movement (MIO) has announced the construction of Indigenous Intercultural University. At a press conference, Cipriano Chavez Pedraza, moral leader of the MIO, said the school will teach two courses: Language and Culture and Sustainable Development. Read Article
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The language of Ayapaneco has been spoken in the land now known as Mexico for centuries. It has survived the Spanish conquest, seen off wars, revolutions, famines and floods. But now, like so many other indigenous languages, it’s at risk of extinction. Read Article
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The enormous segment of Amazonian rainforest that covers over half of the country has always been an issue of contention for Peru due to the number of indigenous tribes that inhabit it. As early as the 16th century, the Peruvian Amazon has been linked to the world market, providing such products as timber, rubber and […]
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Ecuador’s prospective tenth licensing round that will tender oil blocks in the southeast Amazon jungle is shaping up to be a battle between the government and local indigenous peoples, NGO Amazon Watch’s Ecuador program coordinator, Kevin Koenig, told BNamericas. Read Article
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Chevron is divesting itself of overseas assets that could be used to enforce the $9.5 billion legal judgment against the oil giant for massive contamination of the Ecuadorian rainforest, lawyers for the Ecuadorian plaintiffs stated in a legal brief submitted to the Southern District of New York last week. Read Article
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The indigenous leader Humberto Cholango Ecuarunari representative, was elected early yesterday as president of Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE). The Vice President went to the Amazon leader José acacha. Read Article
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Following the Chevron-Texaco US oil company’s $9bn fine for environmental damage in Ecuador’s Amazon region, the indigenous Huaorani people there worry about surviving in the rainforest because of the possibility of more oil exploitation in the area, as the BBC’s Linda Pressly reports. Read Report
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The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) on Saturday elected a new president, replacing Marlon Santi, who remained in office for four years. In Puyo, Pastaza Province, began this morning its annual conference attended by delegations from the three regions. Read Article
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A lawsuit could block Diquís Hydroelectric Project, which develops ICE in Buenos Aires, Puntarenas, and which has already invested $ 80 million. The claim as filed on March 21 Integral Development Association of the Indigenous Territory of Terra-formed by Indians, against the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) for the occupation of their territories to build […]
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Peru’s government has secretly admitted that 70-90% of its mahogany exports were illegally felled, according to a US embassy cable revealed by Wikileaks. Furthermore, Peru’s government is aware that the illegal timber is being ‘laundered’ using ‘document falsification, timber extraction outside the concession boundaries and links to bribes’. Read Article
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SN Power – a Norwegian hydroelectric company – faces strong, well-organized indigenous and environmental opposition to four of their projects in Chile, forcing the company to consider putting their projects up for sale. The company has reportedly hired business consultant Celfin Capital for advice on the necessary steps to either sell the projects – valued […]
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The head of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces, Luis Howell Ballena, deliver 80 shotguns and 18 thousand rounds of self-defense committees (DAC) of the native communities and machiguengas asháninkas in the valley of the rivers Apurimac and Ene, VRAE. In addition, it is estimated that over the next two months will culminate with […]
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About 50 Mapuche took the church of Our Lady of Carmen, in the city of Cañete, in protest against the sentence of 25 years in prison for the operational leader of the Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco (CAM), Héctor Llaitul and the other three Mapuche than 20 years. Read Article
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Santa Clara, March 11, 2011. In earlier days, members of the Association of the Kichwa Nationality Kushillu Urku (ANKAKU) did a tour of the reserve area of the community, suddenly found the presence of mining in the limit of their territory, on the banks of the river Challuayaku, Santa Clara county, province of Pastaza, a […]
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The military courts, police ruled the operational management of the confrontation between the indigenous and the National Police of Peru, which occurred on June 5, 2009 and left the balance of 34 Peruvians dead at Devil’s Curve in Bagua, Amazonas. According to the statement, Gen. Elias Muguruza Luis Delgado was convicted of “failure of performance […]
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Since August 2010, the Rapa Nui islanders have been carrying out demonstrations at various important tourist sites on the island that they claim as their ancestral lands. At the Hotel Hanga Roa, the site of a USD 50 million redevelopment project supported by Chile’s Piñera government, the Hito family—a powerful Rapa Nui clan—had been staging […]
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Just off the Amazon River, lies the village of Nazareth. But don’t think about dropping by. Tired of being a curiosity to the outside world, the indigenous people have banned tourists. Thousands of adventurous, backpacking tourists flock to southern Colombia every year, drawn by eco-tourism and the hope of interacting with the peoples who live […]
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Norte Energia – the Brazilian consortium that made the winning tender offer for the construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam and power plant in the state of Pará, on the Xingu River – did was distribute free food baskets to members of the indigenous community in the area around the dam site. Read Article
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About 220 Colombian indigenes had to leave their homes in the western department of Choco due to pressure and attacks by an organized crime ring, humanitarian organizations reported Wednesday. The 220 people from 43 families of the Embera community near the municipality of Bajo Baudo were forced to leave by “Los Rastrojos,” an armed gang […]
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Spanish journalists Paco Gómez Nadal and Pilar Chato agreed under pressure to be repatriated yesterday, 48 hours after being arrested during a demonstration by indigenous groups outside the parliament building in Panama City in protest against a mining law reform. While transiting through Costa Rica yesterday, the couple told journalists the Panamanian authorities pressured them […]
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The coordinating committee for the defense of natural resources and the rights of the Ngobe-Bugle indigenous people and the Panamanian government reached an agreement on mining, and activists removed their roadblocks. Read Article
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Convicted Mapuche leaders in southern Chile are victims of a Draconian anti-terrorism law and a rigged trial, their families have denounced in a statement released Monday in Santiago. The message says that the verdict of the court of Cañete, in the Chilean Bío Bío, is a political persecution aimed at favoring the usurpation of Mapuche […]
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She has no legal training, and doesn’t speak the Spanish that dominates government in Quito but indigenous villager Maria Aguinda helped bring a landmark judgment against US oil giant Chevron for polluting the rain forest she calls home. Read Article
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Indigenous organizations in Panama province are preparing a national mobilization against a mining law reform despite government promises not to promote that activity in Cerro Colorado and other districts. District leaders rejected an agreement between the government of Ricardo Martinelli and tribal chief Rogelio Moreno stipulating the abstention from beginning, promoting or approving the prospecting […]
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Pachakutik: Indigenous Movements and Electoral Politics in Ecuador RECORDED INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR: DR. MARC BECKER This authoritative book provides a deeply informed overview of one of the most dynamic social movements in Latin America. Focusing on contemporary Indigenous movements in Ecuador, leading scholar Marc Becker traces the growing influence of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities […]
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Opponents of the government’s reform to the mining codes held a number of protests yesterday, calling for the repeal of the reforms. There were protests in Panama City, Chiriquí and Isla Colón in Bocas del Toro. The protesters included indigenous groups and environmentalists. Read Article
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On the tiny, legendary Pacific speck of land known as Easter Island, located 2,000 miles from the Chilean coastline, the ongoing non-violent protests being staged by the Hito family at the Hotel Hanga Roa came to a climax on Sunday February 6, 2011. Fifty armed members of the Chilean national police force (los Carabineros) mounted […]
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Manifestations of rejection of the recently approved amendments to the Code of Mineral Resources were multiplied in the country yesterday. In Bocas de Toro, Chiriquí, Veraguas, and in different sectors of the province of Panama, here were street closings and protests. Read Article
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A Wikileaks cable reveals the US Embassy in Lima, Peru, identified Indigenous activists and tracked the involvement of Bolivian President Evo Morales, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Bolivia Ambassador Pablo Solon, prominent Quechua activist Miguel Palacin Quispe and community leaders. Read Article
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Lawmakers in Panama approved legislation to attract foreign investment to its mining industry, despite opposition from students and indigenous groups. President Ricardo Martinelli and his supporters in the national assembly argue that mining could be Panama’s second largest source of income after fees from the trans-oceanic canal. It becomes law with Martinelli’s signature. Read Article
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Date: Mon 7 Feb 2011 Source: Peru.com [in Spanish, trans. Sr.Tech.Ed.MJ, edited] Julio Bejar, executive director of the Health Services Network of La Convencion [province in Cusco region] reported that 9 cases of autochthonous malaria were registered in the city of Quillabamba [capital of La Convencion province]. Those affected by this disease are among people […]
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Representatives of the Awa indigenous people on Thursday reported five accidents with landmines on its guard in the southwest of the country that killed a member of their community. La muerte del awá fue al menos la segunda del año a causa del estallido de minas. Awa’s death was at least the second year due […]
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AT LESS than 8,000MW, Peru’s total electricity-generation capacity is modest, barely matching four modern nuclear power stations. But President Alan García’s government reckons it could produce almost eight times as much power just by harnessing the country’s Amazonian rivers, let alone using increasingly plentiful supplies of natural gas, and wind and solar power. The government […]
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Hundreds of people, including over 80 Amazonian Indians, gathered yesterday outside the Brazilian Congress and Presidential Palace to protest at the proposed Belo Monte dam in the Amazon rainforest. Read Article
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A Chilean judge suspended criminal trespassing charges against a family of Easter Islanders on Tuesday despite their six-month takeover of a $50 million hotel development on their ancestral land. Judge Nora Bahamondes ruled the courts must first determine who rightfully owns the land before deciding whether anybody was trespassing….. Read Article
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Argentine officials admitted deaths due to malnutrition among the country’s poor of indigenous Latin American people and promised government action to minimize the problem. Read Article
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For generations there are those who jealously guard their ethnic traditions, but they usually share with the world. So Dionisio de la Cruz Hernandez has lived for 40 years for 68 of his age.He has participated in the feast of the town for 20 years. His life is in this community where it is responsible […]
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Police on Easter Island have evicted a group of indigenous people who had been occupying the grounds of a luxury hotel since last year. The group of Rapa Nui say the land on which the hotel was built had been illegally taken from their ancestors generations ago. They have been protesting for months over what […]
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