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Peru: a fight to save the Amazon rainforest

TNI
June 2009

In spite of attempts to violently suppress protests of the indigenous Amazonian population, the Peruvian government was compelled to withdraw a series of decrees that would give transnational companies unfettered access to the Amazon's riches.
In spite of attempts to violently suppress protests of the indigenous Amazonian population, the Peruvian government was compelled to withdraw a series of decrees that would give transnational companies unfettered access to the Amazon's riches. Read the insights of TNI authors.

Peruvian Amazon crisis: what’s behind the protests?
Nina Brenjo, 25 June 2009

Peru's ´forest laws´ and their agro-energy driver
Lucía Goldfarb
25 June 2009

A fight to save the Amazon rainforest
Joanna Cabello, 19 June 2009

Business as usual: EU Commission continues free trade negotiations despite massacre in the Amazon of Peru
Press Release, 18 June 2009

STOP the Violence Against Peruvian Indigenous People: STOP NOW THE FTAs!
Call to the Government of Peru, Government of US, the EU and European Governments

Blood at the Blockade Peru's Indigenous Uprising
Gerardo Rénique, 8 June 2009

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