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A letter to the International Development Bank regarding the construction of the Hidrovia Industrial Waterway Project.

40,000 workers in cotton, sugarcane, and coffee plantations went on strike in January 1989.

The Colombian state is planning to build roads, hydroelectric facilites, ports, and a land bridge to compete with the Panama Canal in the largely untouched rainforest of El Choco. The plan would displace 110,000 indigenous people and the Embera,…

This page consists of black and white photographs of Amazonian Indians with captions.

Asháninka communities in the Selva Central region of Peru have been forced to leave their lands due to guerilla violence. Mino Eusebio Castro, vice-president of the Inter-Ethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Rain Forest talks about…

Peruvian indigenous communities file suit against Texaco, claiming that Texaco's operations caused severe environmental damage in their region.

The Confederacy of Muchik peoples was reseablshed in Peru with the help of SAIIC and Richard P. Schaedel.

Ecological protection plan threatens indigenous communities in Peru.

The trans-Amazon pipeline carrying Occidental and Petroperu crude oil burst spilling between 10,000 and 30,000 barrels of oil a day into the Marañon river, the main water source for many indigenous communities in the area. The Peruvian government has…

OXY, a western oil corporation, has invaded Candoshi land. This will undoubtedly have detrimental effects on the ecosystem.

Asháninka communities in the Selva Central region of Peru have been forced to leave their lands due to guerilla violence. Mino Eusebio Castro, vice-president of the Inter-Ethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Rain Forest, talks about…