It’s been a while since I posted any news from the Andes so here’re some headlines:
The ILAP (Peruvian Amazon Research Institute) will open an office in Loreto to thwart coca-growing operations promoted by Columbian traffickers. Coca leaf production has increased in Loreto with the recent collapse in the region’s lumber industry.
The world Bank’s Board of [...]
We’ve been seeing more and more about the effects of global warming in the Andean highlands (check out this article if you need some convincing), and here’s another sad story, according to El Comercio:
Lluvias ocasionaron deslizamiento de lodo y rocas en campamento minero de Winchumayo. Al cierre de esta edición 20 personas seguían desaparecidas. Hay cuatro [...]
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 [...]
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