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    Bolivia Field Mission

    The Amazon Communications Team embarked on a mission to support Bolivian organizations in documenting and compiling visual and oral evidence of the long-term negative impacts on indigenous communities of the Cuiabá and Bolivia-Brazil pipelines.

    September 1, 2002
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    Letter to the IDB

    July 10, 2002 July 9, 20029 de Julio, 2002 May 26, 2002 May 6, 2002 Juan E. NotaroExecutive DirectorBolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay Inter-American Development Bank1300 New York Avenue, N.W.Washington, D.C. 20577Dear Mr.

    July 12, 2002
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    Letter to the OPIC Board of Directors

    OPIC Board of Directors:Andrew S. Natsios, Administrator, Agency for International Development Gary A. Barron, President, Strategic Alliance Partners Jon M. Huntsman, Jr., Deputy U.S. Trade Representative, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative Melvin E.

    July 10, 2002
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    Letter to the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Planning

    Ramiro Cavero Uriona, MinisterHernán Cabrera, Vice-MinisterMinistry of Sustainable Development and PlanningAv. Mariscal Santa Cruz Esq. Oruro Edificio de la Ex-Comibol 6 PisoCasilla 12814 La PazBoliviaDear Mr. Cavero Uriona and Mr.

    July 9, 2002
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    Accion Por La Vida Update Mindo, ECUADOR

    It has been one month and one day since Special Forces national police raided the peaceful protest camp in Cerro Guarumos and all activists were arrested, including some foreign tourists and students.

    April 26, 2002
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    Colombia Update

    Dear Friends:The Colombian conflict took a frightening turn yesterday when the 3-year-old peace talks between the Colombian armed forces and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) broke down.

    February 22, 2002
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    Ecuador Radio Training Missions

    January and October 2002 ACT twice dispatched an expert radio technician to deliver extensive training in radio communication to Amazonian indigenous organizations fighting to prevent the invasion of their pristine forest homelands by multinational oil companies.

    January 1, 2002
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    Ecuador Media Training

    Our media and digital witnessing training provided local activists fighting the OCP oil pipeline with the skills and equipment to record images of local blockades of the pipeline route, which have appeared in the world media.

    November 1, 2001
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    Ecuador Team Mission

    The team was deployed on a month-long mission to Ecuador (March 8-April 9, 2001). This mission was organized in response to repeated requests from several Ecuadorian indigenous organizations facing threats from new oil projects.

    March 1, 2001
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    Bolivia Field Mission

    The Amazon communications team organized a field mission accompanied by members of Friends of the Earth and Bank Information Center to the San Matias region in Eastern Bolivia.

    June 1, 2000
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    Training Workshop

    The team organized a media and communications training workshop prior to the annual meeting of the Amazon Alliance in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. The three-day workshop was attended by more than 30 indigenous leaders from Bolivia, Ecuador, Brazil, Guyana and Suriname.

    June 1, 2000
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    Venezuela Mission

    The Amazon Communications Team joined the Pemon indians in the Gran Sabana in Venezuela, where the Pemon are protesting the construction of the Guri powerline.

    October 1, 1999
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    Venezuela Mission

    The Amazon Communications Team went on a mission to the Venezuelan Amazon. Our mobile media team attended the Summit of Amazonian indigenous leaders of Venezuela, Guyana, and Brazil. In addition to publicizing the event, the Amazon Communications Team conducted a Media Workshop for the Indigenous leaders.

    July 1, 1999
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    Venezuela

    During July the Amazon Communications Team supported Venezuela's indigenous peoples while the Constituent Assembly convened to rewrite Venezuela's constitution. Get the full story.

    July 1, 1999
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    Media Workshop

    Thirty Amazonian indigenous leaders participate in the Amazon Communications Team first Media Workshop held in conjunction with the Amazon Forum IV in Washington, D.C. May 31 through June 1 1999.

    June 1, 1999
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    Message from the U'wa People to the World

    Each time that a species is extinguished, mankind comes closer to his own extinction, each time an indigenous people becomes extinct, one more member of the great human family leaves forever on a journey with no return.

    January 10, 1997
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