Indigenous groups lifted their road blockades and suspended their strike against key energy sites Thursday, a day after a congressional committee voted to repeal two land development laws decreed by President Alan García.
García called the move a “grave historical mistake” and predicted that rolling back his decrees would condemn Peru’s rural and indigenous communities to “another century of misery.” In a televised address from the Government Palace on Wednesday, García urged Congress not to ratifiy the committee’s decision when the legislature convenes on Friday.
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The measures, the Aidesep (Interethnic Association for the Development of Peru’s Jungle) contends, weakens tribal control of ancestral lands and makes it easier for private investors to obtain permission from indigenous communities to set up business.
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But, according to García, the indigenous peoples are “misinformed.”
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