On 6 February hundreds of indigenous blocked the routes into the petrol-producing department of Arauca in north-east Colombia on the border with Venezuela. They were protesting the detention by the military of three of their leaders who are accused of links with the ELN.
The protesters also called for the establishment of a permanent verification and monitoring commission to investigate the situation of indigenous groups in the Arauca region, with particular respect to the extraction of petroleum, and the use of indigenous peoples in the middle of the conflict. Read Article
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Extraordinary film footage narrated by movie star Gillian Anderson has launched Survival International’s new campaign to protect some of the world’s last uncontacted tribes.
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With a wooden spoon in hand, Hortencia Rómulo briskly stirs the amber-coloured liquid cooking in an enormous steel pot. “It has to reach a heavy boil so that the water evaporates, leaving the syrup,” Rómulo, 45, an indigenous Otomí woman, told Tierramérica, explaining the process for turning the nectar of the maguey, or pulque agave […]
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The expected impacts of hydroelectric generating alarm Inambari potential social, environmental and biological diversity, as released this week in various media. The weekly “Hildebrandt to his guns” played in its Friday edition February 4, an article published on February 2 in the daily El Pais, Spain, in which he states that the project’s environmental impact […]
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Peru’s authorities have announced that they will work together with Brazil to stop loggers entering isolated Indians’ territory along the two countries’ joint border. Read Article
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On February 6, and 7, this event will take place “Defensores del Agua and prosecution of the protest, Ancashino regional meeting will bring together farmers’ leaders from around the country. In the struggle for the defense of natural resources, especially water, and the collective rights of peoples, about a thousand leaders, authorities and indigenous leaders […]
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Around 11 am today indigenous leaders were arrested in a joint operation of Army and National Police. Among those detained is acacha Pepe, one of the candidates for president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE). Pepe acacha is former president of the Interprovincial Federation of Shuar Centers (FICSH) and next to him […]
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Regional Coordinator of Indigenous Peoples of San Lorenzo (CORPI) regional president of Loreto , Yvan Vásquez Valera, and representatives has given various State institutions an ultimatum within 48 hours to install in the province’s Datem Marañón (San Lorenzo) a work table to discuss the Law of Forestry and Wildlife or a new social conflict will […]
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Brazil monitors many such tribes from the air, and they are known as “uncontacted” because they have only limited contact dealings with the outside world. Photographs of the same tribe were released to the world two years ago. Campaigners say the Panoan Indians are threatened by a rise in illegal logging on the Peruvian side […]
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