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“Listen Peru, Paris is with you! Dina Assassin. The people reject you”, “Peru I love you, that‘s why I’m demonstrating”. These slogans resounded in the streets of Paris, between Châtelet and the Place de la République. They were raised by dozens of Peruvians, Latin Americans and French people on Sunday (...)
With protests to demand early elections intensifying in Peru, a request by de facto president Dina Boluarte to bring them forward to December was rebuffed by the right-wing controlled Congress, on January 28.
Peru protest on Jan 19, 2023/ Protestors held the second ’March of the Four Nations’ (...)
More than 20 years later, the Peruvian people have set in motion a mass struggle against a government that wants to assert itself with dictatorial elements.
At this very moment there is a very hard struggle going on in Peru. On one hand, a popular uprising, whose high point was the general (...)
Against the murderous government of Dina Boluarte!
New immediate elections and National Constituent Assembly!
In mid-December, large and combative mobilizations took to the streets and squares of the main cities of Peru, in an uprising motivated by the coup perpetrated on 7 December by the (...)
The Peruvian president tried to shut down the Congress, which wanted to impeach him, in an almost inexplicable leap into the void. A few minutes later, he was arrested and replaced by the vice-president.
The Peruvian political crisis has taken a turn. After assuming power on July 28, 2021 as (...)
From the first moment that the right realised that it had been defeated at the polls in the second round of the general elections, this racist and classist political, business and media right would not accept that someone from the countryside, a rural teacher, a Quechua speaker who wears a hat (...)
Invaders continue to seize land within the Chaparrí ecological reserve, one of Peru’s most biodiverse forests
Shortly after sunset, along an isolated stretch of highway leading out of a dusty hamlet in northern Peru, a band of five weary farmers clad in reflective neon vests and armed with (...)
Organisers get ready for a rally in Lima on August 13. ‘Ni Una Menos, Villa El Salvador, Lima
For many women in Peru, violence is a part of life . Daily harassment on the streets, sexual abuse of minors, trafficking of women and girls, and the sexual, physical, emotional, and economic abuse of (...)
The story of Acuña – a subsistence farmer from Peru – is a lesson that even the world’s largest companies can be held to account by activists.
As owner of some of the largest and most lucrative gold mines in the world, Newmont Mining Corporation is used to getting its own way. Not in Peru though. (...)
Despite the election upset, the opposition will not be silenced, writes Stephanie Boyd.
A few evenings ago in San Francisco, a woman from Peru’s Andean highlands stood before hundreds of elegantly dressed people in simple farming clothes and sang the ballad of her struggle against the US-owned (...)
For Peruvian anti-mining protesters, the President’s political inaction reveals who truly governs the country.
Farmers and labor unions marched in the southern Peruvian district of Cocachacra on Saturday May 16 to continue the ongoing fight to shut down Tía María, a controversial mining project (...)
JUSTICE FOR OUR SISTERS MÁXIMA ACUÑA Y DINA MENDOZA
Dear sisters,
Today we stand in solidarity for our sister Máxima Acuña, and her family, who has been sued by the mining company Yanacocha, charged of invading a land in Tragadero Grande (district of Sorochuco, province of Celendín, Cajamarca, (...)
Albert Pizango, the leader of Aidesep, the indigenous network in the Peruvian Amazon, spent a year in exile after a government militia massacred local people protesting at Amazon destruction.
This week he returned to Peru after a year in Nicaragua and was arrested yesterday.
He is accused of (...)
Motion adopted by the Sixteenth World Congress of the Fourth International.
In late April 2009, the government of Peru carried out brutal repression against the peoples of the Peruvian forest that had risen up against the decrees authorizing oil extraction on their ancestral lands within the (...)
Peru: demands grow for Amazon massacre truth commission
Submitted by WW4 Report on Sat, 08/29/2009 - 12:49.
The United Nations Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination issued a formal recommendation Aug. 28 that the government of Peru open an “exhaustive, objective and impartial (...)
The rhetoric was sharp enough to cut down Amazonian hardwoods. Yesterday, Sunday June 7th, after a number of ministers had been paraded out Saturday and the day before, Peru’s el Señor Presidente, Alan Garcia decided to make it personal. After a joint police-military operation aimed at stopping (...)
“Since April 9, an uprising has been occurring in the Peruvian countryside involving the Amazonian indigenous peoples from 1350 communities and a diversity of ethnicities”, said legendary peasant leader, Hugo Blanco in an important message. A translation of Blanco’s appeal for solidarity with this (...)
Below is a March 4 statement released by Hugo Blanco, a veteran revolutionary and campesino (peasant) leader. He is currently the director of the magazine Lucha Indigena. This statement was translated by Philip Stuart Cournoyer, and is reprinted from international socialist e-journal Links, (...)
Hugo Blanco, one of Peru’s most outstanding indigenous and campesino leaders, issued the following international appeal to supporters of democratic and human rights.
Blanco is the director of the monthly newspaper Lucha Indígena, published by an editorial team based in Cusco and Lima. Thus (...)
Text of a presentation for the Latin American Studies Association Conference to be held September 5-8 in Montreal, Canada.
Over the course of more than 10,000 years, the rich biodiversity of the Andes-Amazon region has created a culture that is closely interlocked with Pachamama (Mother (...)
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