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Swine flu hits Amazon tribe
Lima :: Peru | 3 months ago
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The seven cases, reported in the Matsigenka tribe, were confirmed by the health ministry's regional office in south-eastern Peru...But because the tribe makes its home along the Urubamba River, near a reserve set aside for so-called uncontacted tribes,...
Tags: Eight Amazon Indians, Peruvian Amazon, health officials
Melbourne pair terrorised in pirate attack on cruise ship
Melbourne :: Australia | 3 months ago
Credibility Financial planners Christina Ibbotson and Keith Lawson had just started their dream month-long South American holiday when gunmen stormed their cruise ship on the Ucayali River in the Peruvian Amazon in a dawn raid last Tuesday...Ms Ibbotson first became...
Tags: Peruvian Amazon, cruise ship
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
Tension roils Peru after deadly Amazon clashes
Lima :: Peru | 5 months ago
Credibility 49PM EDT I ndigenous protesters and Peru's army refused to back down and a truce looked distant Saturday, after two battles in the Amazon jungle killed some 50 people in the worst crisis of President Alan Garcia's term.
Tags: Peruvian Amazon, Peru Amazon, Reuters Peru, Amazon Indians, Amazon Watch, police officers, police hostages, Alan Garcia, police kills, indians protesters
Police held hostage in Peru clashes
Lima :: Peru | 5 months ago
Credibility Demonstrators in Peru are holding 38 policemen hostage as part of a protest against oil and gas exploration in the Amazon jungle. The officers were taken hostage on Saturday after clashes between indigenous Indians and police that broke out on Friday...
Tags: Peruvian Amazon, Peru Amazon, northeast Peru, Department of Amazonas, Amazonia, police officers, Bagua, police crackdown, oil drilling
Amazon tribe sighting raises dilemma of contact
Rio de Janeiro :: Brazil | about 1 year ago
Credibility Dramatic photographs of previously unfound Amazon Indians have highlighted the precariousness of the few remaining "lost" tribes and the dangers they face from contact with outsiders. The bow-and-arrow wielding Indians in the pictures released on Thursday...
Tags: Peruvian Amazon, Amazon Indians, Amazon Basin, Brazil, amazon tribe, uncontacted tribe, Funai, National Indian Foundation, indians foundation, national indians
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