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In Peru, Rainforest Natives Block Land Decrees

By Kelly Hearn | 30 Jun 2009
World Politics Review

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QUILLABAMBA, Peru -- Carved into the dense Amazonian slopes of Peru's southern Andes, the sleepy Machiguenga Indian village of Andioshiari is a knot of dilapidated shacks where smoke rises off cooking fires as women go about their chores.

But on June 10, some 30 men, their faces streaked red with war paint, stood clutching bows and arrows. "President Garcia is a thief and a murderer who only cares about making money by selling our land and water," said one of them, Mario Silva. ...

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