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Sting warns of hydroelectric project in Amazon
São Paulo :: Brazil | 13 days ago
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Brazil — British pop star Sting says Brazil's government should listen to the voices of local indigenous groups before building a massive hydroelectric dam in the Amazon rain forest. Sting told a news conference Sunday in Sao Paulo the decision to build...
Tags: Amazon Indians, Brazil, São Paulo, Environment, Belo Monte Dam, Sting, Dam, Xingu, Belo, Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Xingu River, Amazon basin, The Rainforest Foundation, Belo Monte, Amazon Rainforest, Kayapo people, Indigenous peoples in Brazil
Amazon Indians find plane crash survivors
Cruzeiro :: Brazil | about 1 month ago
Credibility Nine people survived a crash landing on a river in Brazil's Amazon rainforest after native Indians alerted authorities who dispatched a rescue mission, the government said on Friday. The small military plane, which went missing on Thursday, was carrying...
Tags: Amazon Indians, air force, Brazilian, Cessna Caravan, military plane
Clash with Indians sends Peru leader's rating down
Lima :: Peru | 5 months ago
Credibility A poll in Peru says President Alan Garcia's approval rating has fallen to its lowest level in 18 months, hurt by a June 5 clash between security forces and Amazonian Indian protesters that killed at least 33 people. The firm Ipsos Support says only 21...
Tags: Peru, indians protesters, Amazon Indians, Alan Garcia
Peru revokes Amazon land decree
Lima :: Peru | 5 months ago
Credibility S Congress today revoked two controversial decrees on land ownership in the Amazon river basin which triggered protests by indigenous groups that left at least 34 people dead in early June. The measure was approved 82-12 after a five-hour debate in Peru's...
Tags: Peru Congress, Peru Indians, Amazon Indians, Amazonian, Marijke Deleu, vice president, Daysi Zapata, indigenous group
Peru moves to ease Amazon crisis
Lima :: Peru | 5 months ago
Credibility Peru's government is set to send a bill to Congress revoking land laws that led to deadly clashes between police and indigenous protesters in the Amazon. The move follows talks between the government and indigenous leaders on ways of easing tensions after...
Tags: Amazon Indians, Peruvian Congress, Peru Indian, Amazonas, Yehude Simon, prime minister, Alberto Pizango, minister yehude, indians protesters, cabinet chief
Peru withdraws ambassador to Bolivia
Lima :: Peru | 5 months ago
Credibility Peru withdrew on Monday its ambassador to Bolivia, Fernando Rojas, in protest against Bolivian President Evo Morales calling the June 5 deaths of indigenous people in Peru "genocide." Peruvian Foreign Minister Jose Garcia Belaunde said that the measure...
Tags: Peruvian, Amazon Indians
Peru suspends decrees that fueled Amazon violence
Lima :: Peru | 5 months ago
Credibility The legislature agreed by a 59 to 49 vote to suspend Decree 1090 -- dubbed the “Law of the Jungle” -- that covers forestry and fauna in Peru’s northeastern Amazon rain forest, said Javier Velasquez, the head of Peru’s single-chamber Congress. A decree...
Tags: Peruvian Amazon, northwest Peru, Amazon Indians, Congress, president alan, land law
Peru suspends divisive Amazon land laws
Lima :: Peru | 5 months ago
Credibility Peru's Congress on Wednesday temporarily suspended two land laws that triggered violent clashes last week between protesters and police in a remote Amazon region, killing 60 people. The laws, decreed by Peruvian President Alan Garcia under special powers...
Tags: Peru Congress Votes, Peruvian Amazon, Amazon Indians, Alan Garcia, presidency alan, land law, police officer, regulate investment, peruvians presidency, Lima
Peru Indian leader seeks Nicaragua exile
Lima :: Peru | 6 months ago
Credibility Peru's government says an Indian leader charged with sedition for heading Amazon protests has sought refuge in Nicaragua's Embassy and is seeking asylum...Peru's state news agency quotes Nicaragua's ambassador as saying his president, Daniel Ortega, would...
Tags: Peruvian Reader, Peru Indian, Amazon Indians, Nicaragua, indians leader, Alberto Pizango, seeking asylum, Aguaruna Indians, leader seeking, indigenous protesters
Peru president decries 'barbarity' in police deaths
Lima :: Peru | 6 months ago
Credibility President Alan Garcia accused Amazon Indians of "barbarity" Sunday in the killing of 22 members of a paramilitary police force sent to break up anti-development protests. While the blockades that had halted the flow of oil out of the jungle appeared mostly...
Tags: Peruvian, Amazon Indians, Amazon Jungle, Amazonas, Amazonian, Alan Garcia, indigenous tribes, Lima, Bagua Chica
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