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Peru Amazon protests a success
20-Jun-2009 Wanderlust
Indigenous people in Peru’s Amazon are celebrating after the government revoked two land laws out of the 11 new laws passed to implement the US-Peru FTA
Canada/Peru FTA seen implemented by July 1
19-Jun-2009 Grainews.com
Canadian ag exports such as wheat, barley, lentils, peas and some boneless beef could get "immediate duty-free access" to the Peruvian market as early as July 1.
Trade agreement kills Amazon indians
19-Jun-2009 FPIF
The recent clash between indigenous peoples and Peruvian national police sends a powerful message from the Amazon jungle straight to Washington: The enormous social, political, and environmental costs of the free-trade model are no longer acceptable.
Peru protests fuel regional tensions
17-Jun-2009 Al Jazeera
The recent clashes between the Peruvian government and indigenous peoples exacerbated tensions between Peru and neighbouring Bolivia whose indigenous president, Evo Morales, accused the Peruvian government of genocide against tribal protesters.
Peruvian indigenous land conflict explained
15-Jun-2009 AQ
Peru is back on the international human rights community’s blacklist
Peru to suspend land laws after violence
12-Jun-2009 FT
Peru’s Congress is moving to suspend the passage of laws at the heart of a lands right dispute with Amazonian indigenous tribes that sparked the worst violence the country has seen since the Maoist Shining Path insurgency.
Stop the lethal repression against indigenous Peruvians
11-Jun-2009 FOEI
Call on the government of Alan Garcia to end the massacre of the indigenous peoples of Peru, and to pay for its crimes.
Massacre in Peru in the name of free trade
9-Jun-2009 Daily Kos
We in America need to be aware of the effects our economic imperialism has around the world. Instead of looking to move away from free trade agreements such as the one in Peru, we are working to establish new agreements, such as those in Panama or Colombia. The pork industry, for example, is lobbying very hard for a Panama FTA, so it can open up Panamanian markets to American pork.
Blood at the blockade: Peru’s indigenous uprising
8-Jun-2009 NACLA
Protestors’ top demand is the repeal of a series of decrees, known collectively as the "Law of the Jungle," signed by García last year using extraordinary powers granted to him by Peru’s Congress to enact legislation required by the 2006 US-Peru Free Trade Agreement. Under the government’s current plan, oil and gas concession blocs alone would cover 72 percent of Peru’s Amazon.
Perú: Solidarity with the struggle of the Amazonian peoples of Peru!
8-Jun-2009 Unión Socialista Libertaria
We ask our libertarian comrades to organise mobilisations and demonstrations outside Peruvian embassies in every country, in coordination with other sectors in struggle, in order to denounce the actions of the State and the multinationals in this country
50 days of protest and one massacre in the Peruvian Amazon
8-Jun-2009 rabble
Many Indigenous groups, human rights organizations, and environmental groups have called for President Garcia to step down and have issued calls for demonstrations at Peruvian embassies around the world "until the bloodbath is stopped and the legislative decrees for the Free Trade Agreement with the United States are repealed."
Police hostages die in Peru protest
8-Jun-2009 Al Jazeera
At the heart of the dispute are laws passed last year as Garcia sought to bring Peru’s regulatory framework into compliance with a free-trade agreement with the US. "This has to be seen as one more chapter in the national struggle against the FTA," Mirko Lauer, a political commentator at Peru’s La Republica newspaper, told Al Jazeera.
Fatal clashes erupt in Peru at roadblock
6-Jun-2009 NY Times
The indigenous groups in Peru have surprised the authorities with their sudden strength and organization and are now threatening to blunt President Alan García’s efforts to lure foreign investment to the region.
Canada’s Lower House approved FTA with Peru
5-Jun-2009 Andina
The Lower House of Canada Congress approved this week the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signed with Peru, which shall come into force in July this year
Peru: Indigenous protests force government negotiation
31-May-2009 Green Left Weekly
Since April 9, indigenous communities have shut down oil fields and gas pipelines, and blocked roads, rivers, airports and other installations. These actions are in protest at government decrees that open access to indigenous people’s lands to facilitate oil, mining, logging and agricultural companies. Garcia decreed the laws under special powers awarded to him by Congress to bring Peruvian law into line with a free trade agreement (FTA) signed with the United States in December 2007.
Amazonian Indigenous protest provokes Peruvian government reprisals
27-May-2009 ENS
After more than six weeks of protests by Peru’s Amazonian indigenous groups that have included blockades of major roads and waterways and the shutting down an oil pipeline pumping station, the Peruvian government has begun to crack down.
Peru and Japan start free-trade negotiations
26-May-2009 BusinessWeek
Peru and Japan have launched the first round of negotiations for a planned free-trade pact as Peru’s government pledges closer ties to Asia’s markets.
Protests target Peru’s UN Mission in New York: Indigenous rights over US free trade agreement
22-May-2009 Amazon Watch
Indigenous leaders from around the world are joined by supporters in a demonstration today outside the Peru’s Mission to the United Nations, urging the Alan Garcia Government to respect indigenous peoples’ rights and repeal a series of new laws passed under the pretext of implementing the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States.
Amazon protests against free trade
18-May-2009 FSRN
Free trade protests are growing in Peru. A group of indigenous activists began demonstrating in April against the FTA with the United States, claiming the agreement robs them of their land and resource rights - instead selling rights to oil, mining, logging and agricultural companies.
Chinese mining giants to invest $7.4 billion in Peru over next 5 years
12-May-2009 Andina
Chinese mining giants Minmetals, Chinalco, Shougang and Zijin plan to invest over 7.4 billion dollars in Peru during the next five years, Peruvian Vice President Luis Giampietri said. Giampietri met in late April with the CEOs of these mining groups after attending the signing ceremony of Peru-China Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in Beijing.