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Since we are devoting most of this newsletter to the WCIP Conference, we want to include the following information on indigenous concerns at the international level.

The Mapuche Situation, with Decree Law 2568 of 1979, the military regime of Pinochet provides for the extermination of Mapuche communal lands.

Although the economic crisis continues, a rebirth of Indian organizations and the struggle for the rights of the more than one million Indians who now live in Argentina
has begun.

A group of large land owners had confiscated Indian land and murdered Indigenous leader Marcal Tupai while the indigenous continue to struggle.

"until the Indian majority takes power and forms a government that represents the people, there can be no justice in Kollasuya, Bolivia."

Reports reaching us at SAIIC indicate increasing violence and escalating abuse of human rights in Peru.

The federation of Shuar organizations had been recognized by the national government of Ecuador.

The Venezuelan government continues to deny the right of self-liberation, self-determination, and self-management to the indigenous peoples of Venezuela.

Representatives of the Miskito organization, MISATAN, founded in July, 1984, were in attendance at the WCIP conference. The representatives invited the conference parti- cipants to visit Nicaragua, Honduras, and Costa Rica in order to gain a clear…

The following interview was taped by Nilo Cayuqueo at the WCIP Conference. It represents one of the many indigenous women's voices treard to speak out regarding the continuing repression and genocide in Guatemala.

The World Council of Indigenous Peoples was founded in 1975 in Canada. WCIP's main objectives were to create a communications network for indigenous people worldwide.

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