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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 (...)
In the earthquake of 1950 in Cuzco, I collaborated as a volunteer as part of the system of aid that had been established: my task was to register those who had lost their homes and their necessities. At first we were received with affection, yet the more we advanced in our work, the more the (...)
Curfews, roadblocks, teargas and rumours of dead bodies being dumped in rivers. It feels as though Peru has slipped through a time warp to the tumultuous 1980s and early 1990s, when the Government was embroiled in a civil war with leftist guerrillas, and civilians were caught in the crossfire. (...)
Introduction
by Phil Cournoyer
This article was first published in Spanish in the magazine Sin Permiso on March 4 this year. Sin Permiso [[www.sinpermiso.info] is a Spanish-language quarterly socialist magazine and a monthly e-zine published by a multinational editorial team. The article was (...)
There’s little celestial about the city Chimbote – except that it stinks to high heaven. But its determined citizens will risk jail to ‘green’ it. Stephanie Boyd went there to find out more.
Today, like every other day, six-year-old Jorge is up to his knees in a rushing muddy-red stream of (...)
The following letters were published in Argentina by the Marxist magazine Estrategia, Volume One, No.2, edited by Nahuel Moreno. Hugo Blanco’s name appears on the masthead of the magazine as a member of the editorial board. The letters comprise part of an extensive discussion on the tactics and (...)
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