“Tarzan Agitator” Paul McAuley To Be Expelled by Peru
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Peru to expel British ‘Tarzan agitator’ Paul McAuley
Missionary told to leave after helping Amazon tribes resist incursion of oil, gas and mining firms into the rainforest
By Rory Carroll
The Guardian
July 2, 2010
Peru has ordered the expulsion of a British missionary who was dubbed a “Tarzan agitator” for helping Amazon tribes to resist the incursion of oil, gas and mining companies into the rainforest…
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BP Oil Catastrophe Mirrors Texaco-Chevron Amazon Disaster
A pool of oil in Lago Agrio, an Ecuadorean town in the Amazon where Texaco is accused of having dumped millions of gallons of contamination in local rivers and lakes in order to save the company money. Chevron later purchased Texaco, and has inherited Texaco’s legal troubles
Disaster in the Amazon
By Bob Herbert
June 4, 2010
BP’s calamitous behavior in the Gulf of Mexico is the big oil story of the moment. But for many years, indigenous people from a formerly pristine region of the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador have been trying to get relief from an American company, Texaco (which later merged with Chevron), for what has been described as the largest oil-related environmental catastrophe ever…
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Anglo-French Oil Company Perenco Plans Amazon Invasion
A group of Waorani Indians in Ecuador with blow pipes
( Note: At a time when oil is gushing unchecked into the Gulf of Mexico, despoiling one of the richest ecosystems in the Americas, another oil company, Perenco, moves closer to building an oil pipeline through one of the remotest areas of the Amazon, in northern Peru, with the risk of oil workers making a potentially deadly contact with one or more uncontacted Amazonian tribes. Oil workers and illegal loggers have been invading indigenous territories–with often deadly consequences for native peoples–for the last one hundred years–Kim MacQuarrie)
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Campaign to Protect Peru’s Last Uncontacted Tribes
Global Ad Campaign For Peru’s Uncontacted Tribes
Survival International
May 5, 2010
An ad supporting Peru’s last uncontacted tribes is appearing in publications around the world in a bid to stop Peru’s government allowing an oil pipeline to be built through the Indians’ territory…
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Brazil Creates 20,000 Square Miles of New Indigenous Reserves
December 23, 2009
On Monday, Brazil decreed nine new indigenous reserves covering 51,000 square kilometers (19,700 square miles) of the Amazon rainforest, an areas larger than Denmark or Switzerland, reports the AFP…
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Peruvian Journalist Suggests Napalming Amazonian Natives
Survival International: Call for Napalm Bombing of ‘Savages’ in Peru’s Amazon Wins “Most Racist Article of the Year Award”
Peruvian Times
September 2, 2009
An article implying that Peruvian natives should be bombed with napalm has been named by London-based Survival International as the ‘most racist article’ published in the last year by the mainstream media.
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Indigenous People Fight Against Peru’s “Law of the Jungle”
Native Protestors at the entrance of Yurimagua, in the northern Peruvian Amazon
Blood at the Blockade: Peru’s Indigenous Uprising
NACLA (May-June 2009)
Gerardo Rénique
On June 6, near a stretch of highway known as the Devil’s Curve in the northern Peruvian Amazon, police began firing live rounds into a multitude of indigenous protestors – many wearing feathered crowns and carrying spears. In the nearby towns of Bagua Grande, Bagua Chica, and Utcubamba, shots also came from police snipers on rooftops, and from a helicopter that hovered above the mass of people. Both natives and mestizos took to the streets protesting the bloody repression.
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Brad Pitt Slated to Star in the Amazonian Mystery Thriller, “The Lost City of Z”
(Note: Paramount Productions has announced that Brad Pitt will star in an upcoming film set in the Amazon (and filmed in Bolivia) called “The Lost City of Z,” based on the non-fiction book of the same name. In the film, which Pitt’s “Plan B” production company will produce, Pitt will portray the English explorer, Percy Harrison Fawcett. The latter disappeared somewhere in the Brazilian Amazon in 1925 while hot on the trail of a supposed “lost city.” No trace of Fawcett or of his travelling companions was ever found–KM)
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Massive Amazon Oil Discovery Threatens Peru’s Uncontacted Indians
Groups say Peru oil project threatens Indians
The Associated Press
January 26, 2009
LIMA, Peru: The development of a remote oil field in Peru’s Amazon jungle could threaten the survival of isolated Indian communities in the region, an Indian rights group said Monday.
This month, Peru’s Finance Ministry approved plans submitted by Anglo-French oil company Perenco SA to invest $1 billion over the next three years to extract crude from an oil field in the northern province of Loreto near Ecuador’s border.
An international tribal-support organization and local Indian rights groups say the oil field is the ancestral home of up to three nomadic Indian communities living in voluntary isolation.
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Peru’s Uncontacted Tribes Threatened by Oil Companies and Illegal Loggers
The Amazon Rainforest–home to nearly 80% of the world’s uncontacted tribes
(Note: An estimated 100 uncontacted tribes still exist in the world, with the majority of them inhabiting Brazil (with an estimated 67 uncontacted tribes) and Peru (with 15). Most are located not far from the Peru-Brazil border… (more…)
