Post by ViCtoria* on Jun 11, 2009 8:10:52 GMT -6
I am not the most politically aware person in my country, but today, after watching Q'orianka Kilcher talk about what is happening in Bagua (Amazon region in Peru) all the way from LA, I feel I should make this public.
Again, I don't know much about my country, and the information I'm posting is extracted from BBC News:
"In October 2007, President Alan Garcia published a series of articles trying to explain what he saw as the main cause of poverty. He called it the Dog in the Manger syndrome. Mr Garcia argued that communally owed land in many Peruvian communities led to an inefficient use of natural resources because it was a free resource open to everybody. Soon afterwards, Congress allowed President Garcia to issue decrees encouraging oil and gas extraction, commercial forestry, and large-scale agriculture in the Amazon. Indigenous groups see those decrees as threatening their ancestral lands and way of life."
"There have been fuel and transport blockades in Peru's Amazon region for almost two months."
"Earlier this month, Peru's military was authorised to give support to police in the escalating dispute."
"Deadly clashes in the Amazon (more and more deaths everyday)"
For Q'Orianka Kilcher's small summary of what's going on in Bagua right now, watch the video (less than 4 minutes long):
Again, I don't know much about my country, and the information I'm posting is extracted from BBC News:
"In October 2007, President Alan Garcia published a series of articles trying to explain what he saw as the main cause of poverty. He called it the Dog in the Manger syndrome. Mr Garcia argued that communally owed land in many Peruvian communities led to an inefficient use of natural resources because it was a free resource open to everybody. Soon afterwards, Congress allowed President Garcia to issue decrees encouraging oil and gas extraction, commercial forestry, and large-scale agriculture in the Amazon. Indigenous groups see those decrees as threatening their ancestral lands and way of life."
"There have been fuel and transport blockades in Peru's Amazon region for almost two months."
"Earlier this month, Peru's military was authorised to give support to police in the escalating dispute."
"Deadly clashes in the Amazon (more and more deaths everyday)"
For Q'Orianka Kilcher's small summary of what's going on in Bagua right now, watch the video (less than 4 minutes long):
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Sometimes I'm too responsible, lol). Well, the police ended up throwing tear bombs at them, which is usually what the government does when the protests seem to be big... 6 students from my university were held by them, they're trying to get their names!
