Dedo Medio | El congresista aprista Luis Gonzáles Posada ha solicitado que el Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores denuncie a la ONG Amazon Watch por "daños y perjuicios". Aldo Mariátegui ha pedido que se bloqueen sus fondos y que sea expulsada del país.
All: 2009
"There's an impending catastrophe" Deforestation Increases Mercury Poisoning in Fish
Written by: Cristiano Navarro, Brasil de FatoTranslated by: Natalia TaddeiPorto Velho (RO)Once a year, Pierre-Louis de Catheu, a farmer in the South of France, enjoys the duck-hunting season. In the last two seasons, he has had problems with his ammunition.
Environmental lawsuits filed against Amazon dam projects
Recharge News | Civil lawsuits have been filed against Brazil's environment institute for ignoring environmental concerns when issuing licenses to allow the construction of two dams on the Amazon's Madeira River.
The fight for the Peruvian rainforest
The Guardian | The extraordinary story of how Peru's Indians and English priest Brother Paul are fighting to the death to protect their way of life and their rainforest
"Yo no estuve de acuerdo con la violencia": Manuin
Terra Magazine | Lima, Perú – En entrevista exclusiva con Terra Magazine, habla Santiago Manuin Valera, líder de los awajún-wampis, detenido en un hospital de la ciudad de Chiclayo, tras la asonada en Bagua, en la que recibió una ráfaga de una ametralladora AKM en el estómago, lo que le causó ocho orificios y que su colón este s
Amazon Watch is building on more than 25 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.
The Madeira River Complex, Brazil and Bolivia
Photos from an Amazon Watch trip through the Madeira River basin to bring back stories of anguish and hope in the fight to stop the construction of two mega-hydroelectric dams on the Amazon's principal tributary.
Inter-American Development Bank Must Enact Reforms Before Replenishment
U.S. Government Urged to Require Reforms Before Considering any IDB Capital Increase Request
Washington, D.C. (July 1, 2009)– As the Inter-American Development Bank's Board of Governors prepares to meet in Santiago, Chile on July 2 to discuss a proposed $100-$200 billion General Capital Increase (GCI), civil society groups issued a set of recommendations urging donor countries, in particular the U.S.
U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Chevron Appeal Over $27 Billion Ecuador Environmental Case
Latest in Series of Legal Setbacks for Oil Giant
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court today refused to hear an appeal by Chevron of a decision by a U.S.
Ecuador Says Germany Backs Cash-For-Conservation in Amazon
EFE | QUITO – The Yasuni-ITT initiative, Ecuador's offer to forgo exploiting Amazon oil reserves in exchange for aid from wealthy nations, will take the form of a trust with an initial endowment from Germany, the Andean nation's foreign ministry said Friday.The plan emerged from a meeting in Berlin between Foreign Minister
Supreme Court Rejects Chevron Appeal Against Ecuadorian Oil Co.
Dow Jones | WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it won't decide whether an Ecuadorian oil company can be held partially responsible in a $27 billion case against its former business partner, Texaco Petroleum Co., a unit of Chevron Corp.
Yasuní: Ecuador busca cambiar la historia "Una propuesta para cambiar la historia"
BBC Mundo | En esos términos describe el gobierno de Ecuador la iniciativa que promueve para frenar el cambio climático, con la que busca crear un nuevo paradigma.El proyecto, conocido como iniciativa Yasuní-ITT, pretende que se pague a Ecuador para que deje a perpetuidad, sin explotar y bajo tierra, parte de sus reservas petro
Peru's indigenous people win one round over developers
LA Times | Reporting from Yurimaguas, Peru – Peruvian tribal leader Luis Pizango says private investment in his part of the Amazon has brought only misery to him and his people.Deforestation by loggers ruined tribal hunting grounds. An oil spill in the nearby Corrientes River diminished fishing.
New Evidence of Chevron Fraud From Final Judicial Inspections in $27 Billion Environmental Case
Latest Evidence from Paid Chevron Expert Clears Path to Final Decision
QUITO, Ecuador - (Business Wire) Evidence that two Chevron lawyers committed fraud in Ecuador apparently has grown stronger with a new court-ordered report finding extensive levels of toxic contamination at two oil well sites that the company claimed to have "remediated" in the mid-1990s, representatives of indigenous a
AIDESEP Warns that Persecution Continues, Announcing they will Withdraw from the Dialogue Table Should it Persist
AIDESEP demanded that Peru's Executive and Legislative branches halt the persecution of indigenous leaders throughout the country. If they don't, indigenous representatives will be obligated to withdraw from the Coordination Group for the Amazon Peoples.
Peru's land disputes
Al Jazeera | Dozens have been killed in recent clashes between indigenous protesters and police in Peru.
The protesters are opposing land reform laws that are designed to open up parts of the country to international investors.
The resulting political turmoil has seen the approval ratings of Alan Garcia, the Peruvian presi
AIDESEP Statement: A Historic Day for Indigenous Peoples
Speaking on behalf of indigenous peoples, the vice-president of the Inter-Ethinc Association for Development in the Peruvian Amazon (AIDESEP), Daysi Zapata, expressed her satisfaction with the decision of the Congress of the Republic to repeal the illegitimate legislative decrees 1090 and 1064 and called on the government to
Peruvian Congress Votes 82 – 12 to Repeal Two Controversial Laws
Government Urged to Drop Criminal Charges Against Indigenous Leaders and Allow Independent Investigation into Violent Incidents in Bagua
Lima, Peru – The Peruvian Congress voted today 82 – 12 to repeal two of nine contested laws in an attempt to end widespread indigenous protests that have been paralyzing transportation and commerce in the Peruvian Amazon for 70 days.
Gene Randall "Reporting," Inc.
Columbia Journalism Review | Will journalists' flight toward PR mean the end of reportorial integrity?Former CNN correspondent-turned-PR consultant Gene Randall's video "report" for oil giant Chevron might be unprecedented for how it blurred the line between public relations and journalism.
Amazonian Leaders Blast Chevron CEO David O'Reilly For Deceitful Answers At Public Debate
Chevron Chief Clearly Uncomfortable With Ecuador Topic
Quito, Ecuador (June 16, 2009) – Amazonian leaders in Ecuador are blasting Chevron CEO David O'Reilly for engaging in "lies and deceit" during a public debate last week in San Francisco over energy-related topic that included the company's expected $27.3 billion liability in Ecuador."David O'Reilly is an untrustworth
RIGHTS-PERU: Activists Urge Obama to Use Trade Pact as Leverage
Inter-Press Service | NEW YORK, Jun 16 (IPS) - The United States government is coming under intense pressure from rights organisations and environmental groups to redefine its trade pact with Peru, a tool that they charge the government in Lima is using to justify oppression against the indigenous population."Whether or not the U.S.
Benjamin Bratt Speaks Out Against the Killing of Indigenous People in Peru
The actor and his brother, filmmaker Peter Bratt, urge people to support the struggle of Indian people to protect the Amazon in their mother's homeland
Actor Benjamin Bratt and filmmaker Peter Bratt join Amazon Watch in calling for the Garcia government of Peru to immediately cease its violent repression of Native Amazonian peoples, drop criminal charges against AIDESEP's leaders, and suspend the State of Emergency.Benjamin Bratt said, "In 2009, it is shocking and una
U.S. Government Pressured to Take Action on Peru Conflict Given Role of US-Peru Trade Agreement
Letter Urges Senior Officials to Clarify Position on Controversial Peruvian 'Free Trade Laws'
Washington D.C. (June 15, 2009) – Amazon Watch joined fourteen human rights and environmental organizations in urging the United States to take immediate steps towards addressing recent political violence in Peru.
Indians clash with armed police in Peru
Channel 4 News | Peru's Amazonian Indians are fighting government moves to turn Peru into an oil superpower by allowing big business to drill for oil and gas in areas they say are their ancestral lands.Up to 100 people have been killed this week alone in clashes between the Indians and armed police.But now the I
NGO Letter to Obama Administration about Crisis in Peru
June 12, 2009The Honorable Hillary ClintonSecretary of State United States Department of State2201 C Street NWWashington, District of Columbia 20520Dear Madam Secretary:We are writing to request that the United States Government take immediate, concrete and public action to help r
Protesters Gird for Long Fight Over Opening Peru's Amazon
The New York Times | Faced with a simmering crisis over dozens of deaths in the quelling of indigenous protests last week, Peru's Congress this week suspended the decrees that had set off the protests over plans to open large parts of the Peruvian Amazon to investment.
Indigenous Protest and State Violence in the Peruvian Amazon: How the Media Misrepresents
Huffington Post | Before dawn on Friday, June 5, an estimated 650 Peruvian National Police and Special Forces officers attacked several thousand Awajun and Wambis indigenous people at their roadside blockade on the Fernando Belaunde Terry highway.The Awajun and Wambis indigenous peoples had been participating in a general strike called
Oil and Indians Don't Mix
Truthout | There's an easy way to find oil. Go to some remote and gorgeous natural sanctuary, say Alaska or the Amazon, find some Indians, then drill down under them.If the indigenous folk complain, well, just shoo them away.
Blood in the jungle Alan García's high-handed government faces a violent protest
The Economist | For seven weeks tens of thousands of Amazonian Indians blocked roads and rivers across eastern Peru. They seized hydroelectric plants and pumping stations on oil and gas pipelines to try to force the repeal of decrees facilitating oil exploration, commercial farming and logging in parts of the jungle.
Debating Peru's Ambassador on Voice of America (in Spanish)
Voice of America | Amazon Watch Campaigner Andrew Miller countering the Peruvian government's erroneous discourse around recent repression of the current Amazon-wide indigenous protests on The Voice of America's Foro InterAmericano.
