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Peru; Amazonian Indigenous Groups Protest New Government Decrees

By Global Voices | Published 23 August 2008 | Articles | Rating:
International Day of the World's Indigenous People was celebrated on August 9, but often in Peru these groups have very little to celebrate. The Aguaruna Indigenous group in Saramiriza in the Peruvian Amazon has mobilized to occupy the Petroleum Station No. 5 of the Northern Peruvian pipeline. Coordinadora Nacional de Radio [es] states that the groups are protesting that several legislative decrees are a threat to the Amazonian indigenous groups and peasant communities, which allows the government more access to their lands.




Seeing is believing

By John Paucar | Published 09 August 2007 | Articles | Rating:

Convincing wary villagers of new ideas can be a long process. Sergio Mora, an agricultural engineer, knows this well. He has been working for years in the high mountain villages of Peru, bringing irrigation to dry lands. “You have to take your time,” says Sergio. “By example and patience, you can win their confidence.” John Paucar, Pix-Aid’s journalist in Cusco reports just how delicate this process can be.






Peruvian farmers facing Global Warming

By Sergio Mora Quintanilla | Published 09 April 2007 | Articles | Rating:
 The farmers of Huillcapata, a small village in the Peruvian Andes near Cusco, are aware of global warming and its consequences for the future like the increasing lack of water. They are now installing tubes for a system of gravity-driven irrigation in order to better use small streams on the mountainside. 





The Last of the Incas

By Terry Winn | Published 22 December 2006 | Articles | Unrated
 
“I am the last,” declares Isabelle Atayupanqui Pachacutec, the last direct descendant to hold the noble name of Pachacutec (the transformer of the world), the greatest leader of the Inca Empire.





Lords of the Water

By Terry Winn | Published 20 December 2006 | Articles | Rating:
  Perched on an Andean summit swept by the wind, the small village of Usi is hated yet envied by its neighbors below. The villagers of Usi control the high lakes from which the water flows and upon which the villages below depend. For centuries, arguments have regularly erupted, sometimes even ending in the flow of blood.