Following Peruvian President Alan Garcia’s order to begin clearing, by force, the protests and blockades that have paralyzed the country’s Amazon region for nearly two months, police launched a violent raid early this morning on unarmed protesters at a roadblock outside of Bagua.
The raid began at 2am while protesters were still sleeping, and began in [...]

A massive indigenous mobilization in the Peruvian Amazon is nearing its second month, with no sign that the native protesters will allow themselves to be intimidated into giving up on their demands.
Thousands of indigenous protesters have blockaded critical infrastructure in Peru’s Amazon region since April 9, when they declared a national strike in protest of [...]

For more than a month, indigenous groups in the Peruvian Amazon have been maintaining blockades of roads, rivers, airports and oil and gas pipelines to protest a series of new laws that would lead to increased industrial exploitation of their territories. The decrees were passed in accordance with the US-Peru Free Trade Agreement.
An estimated 13,000 [...]

The Canadian company Pacific Rim Mining Corp. has filed a lawsuit under the provisions of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), seeking to force the government of El Salvador to approve its extraction permit for the proposed El Dorado gold and silver mine. The government denied the permit after an initial study concluded that [...]

The Mexican government is making a renewed push to exploit and destroy the land and people of Chiapas as the reborn Plan Puebla Panama (PPP, now renamed the “Mesoamerica Initiative”) pushes forward in Chiapas:
• Mexican Energy Secretary Georgina Kessel has announced plans for oil drilling in Chiapas, with private companies invited to invest as early [...]

On September 2, a group of anarchists blockaded transport infrastructure in Guelph, Ontario, in solidarity with Six Nations resisters and to strike a blow against the system.
The action was spurred by the Sep. 1 arrests of indigenous Six Nations protesters opposing a development project on their land.
The Guelph actions saw burning tires and branches used [...]

On Friday, August 22nd, the Peruvian legislature voted 66-28 to repeal two laws that would have opened up vast tracts of indigenous land in the Amazon to oil and gas exploration, mining, logging and other destructive “development.”
An estimated 12,000 indigenous protesters from 65 tribes had seized energy installations, marched and clashed with police in protest [...]

Thousands of Peruvian indigenous protesters have agreed to temporarily lift their blockades of oil, gas and hydroelectric infrastructure after Congress agreed to hold a vote on repealing a law that would make it easier for energy, mining and other corporate interests to purchase indigenous land.
The blockades were initiated at a time when Peru is already [...]

The Peruvian government declared a state of emergency (martial law) today in three provinces affected by ongoing indigenous occupations and blockades of energy infrastructure. The government has banned public gatherings and free movement within the northern province of Amazonas and the southern provinces of Loreto and Cuzco, where hundreds of indigenous protesters have seized and [...]

Peru’s state-run oil company Petroperu was forced to shut down a major oil pipeline in the country’s north on Thursday, August 14, due to an ongoing occupation by indigenous protesters angered over new laws encouraging more infrastructure development in the Amazon.
The 500-person protest began on August 11, coinciding with the occupation of a gas field, [...]