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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.

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.

Amazon Watch is building on more than 25 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.