Peru

Divestment Campaign Aims To Bleed Dry The Fossil Fuel Industry

December 9, 2014 Leehi Yona and Diego Arguedas Ortiz, www.ipsnews.net Resist! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Peru

Even as the presence of major oil and gas corporations is nearly ubiquitous at the U.N. climate talks in the Peruvian capital known as COP20, fossil fuel divestment campaigns have gained ground in various countries and are moving to counter the influence of the “dirty energy” lobby here. As the COP20 enters its second and final week, delegates from 195 countries are still trying to address the urgency of climate change by reaching an international agreement to decelerate global warming. However, activists are worried that the influence of fossil fuel companies within COP20 might slow down an already sluggish process.

Climate Neutrality – The Lifeboat Launched By Lima

December 9, 2014 Diego Arguedas Ortiz, www.ipsnews.net Organize! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Peru

Packed into stifling meeting rooms in the Peruvian capital, delegates from 195 countries are trying to find a path that would make it possible for the planet to reach climate neutrality in the second half of this century – the only way to avoid irreversible damage, scientists warn. Climate neutrality is defined as no net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, achieved by minimising emissions as much as possible, so an equivalent amount is sequestered or offset. The term climate neutral, rather than carbon neutral, is used to reflect the fact that it is not just carbon dioxide (CO2) that is causing climate change but other greenhouse gases as well.

Climate Talks Open With Hunger For Action

December 2, 2014 Climate Action Network, www.fastfortheclimate.org Educate! Climate Change, Environment, Peru

The UN climate talks in Lima (COP20) opened today with a flame of solidarity as an estimated 10,000 people around the world joined together in the largest ever climate fast to show support for the victims of climate change. UNFCCC Executive Secretary, Christiana Figueres and the Peruvian Minister of Environment and President of COP20, Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, offered their support for the fast at a spectacular candlelight vigil in Lima last night, at which hundreds of people gathered to prepare for the fast which remembers those suffering from climate impacts.

Protests Before UN Climate Talks In Peru

December 1, 2014 Rael Mora, www.telesurtv.net Resist! Climate Change, COP20, Environment, Peru

Dozens of Peruvian civil society groups have come together, forming the Peru COP20 Group, to demand that their government addresses environmental issues at home, before hosting this years UN climate change conference, known as COP20. With that goal in mind, they organized a march to the Environment Ministry joining other demonstrations around the world as part of the People's Climate March day of action on 20 September. “What we ask for are actions and not words. Over here, a diverse group of organizations, people, and independent citizens have come together” in order to challenge the government's current attitude explained one of the demonstration organizers, Sebastian Milla from the Youth Committee for the People’s Summit.

Peruvian Patients Reject TPP: Will Affect Their Access To Medication

October 22, 2014 Rael Mora, www.telesurtv.net Educate! Big Pharma, Finance and the Economy, Peru, TPP

Leaks on the secret trade agreement, the TPP, are worrying social organizations that deal with health issues in Peru. They predict that the adoption of such a treaty will result in many deaths. On Monday, after the release of new information by Wikileaks, social organizations defending the interests of health patients have spoken out against the TPP. Representatives from the Peruvian Network for Patients and Users claim the treaty will allow for pharmaceutical companies to dominate the use of a drug for decades. The Trans Pacific-Partnership agreement (TPP) is a free trade agreement that is being negotiated in secret by 12 countries including Peru. One of the most controversial aspects of the treaty is the one that protects medicine patents, benefiting the interests of large pharmaceutical companies.

Demand Justice For Murdered Amazon Tribal Leaders

September 13, 2014 Margaret Kennealy, www.thepetitionsite.com Petitions and Online Actions Logging, Peru

The Peruvian authorities must ensure that all those suspected of their murders must be brought to Justice. They must also extend protection to the remaining Indigenous People who are being intimidated and exploited by illegal loggers operating on their lands. The four people murdered were leaders of the Ashéninka people of the Peruvian Amazon. Among them was Edwin Chota a prominent anti-logging campaigner who had fought for his people’s right to gain titles to their land and expel illegal loggers who raided their forests on the Brazilian border. At the time of the murders they were preparing to bring their community's case and a complaint against illegal loggers to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

Top Peruvian Foe of Illegal Logging Slain

September 10, 2014 Frank Bajak, www.miamiherald.com Resist! Indigenous Rights, Logging, Peru, Repression

IMA, Peru -- An outspoken Peruvian opponent of illegal logging and three other native Ashaninka community leaders were shot and killed in the remote region bordering Brazil where they live, villagers and authorities said Monday. The activist, Edwin Chota, had received frequent death threats from illegal loggers, who he had tried for years to expel from the lands for which his community was seeking title. Illegal loggers were suspected in the killings, said Ashaninka regional leader Reyder Sebastian. Pervasive corruption lets the loggers operate with impunity, stripping the Amazon region's river basins of prized hardwoods, especially mahogany and tropical cedar. "He threatened to upset the status quo," said David Salisbury, a professor at the University of Richmond who was advising Chota on the title quest and had known him for a decade. "The illegal loggers are on record for wanting Edwin dead." Chota and the others were apparently killed on Sept. 1, the day they left Saweto, the village he led on the Upper Tamaya river, to hike to a sister Brazilian Ashaninka community, said the village schoolteacher, Maria Elena Paredes. When the men did not show at the Brazilian village, worried comrades who had traveled ahead of them returned and found the bodies — apparently killed by shotgun blasts — near some shacks on the Putaya river, Paredes said.

Solidarity With People Of Cajamarca, Peru

July 6, 2014 Staff, www.afgj.org Resist! Environment, Mining, Peru

The Alliance for Global Justice (AfGJ) condemns the preventive incarceration of Gregorio “Goyo” Santos Guerrero, President of the Region of Cajamarca, Peru (analogous to a US governor). Goyo’s election in 2010 was the result of a mass mobilization of the region’s voters. It reflected a popular struggle against the proposed Conga gold mine involving an alliance of miners, teachers, farmers, unionists and indigenous communities. These maintain the gold mine will export not only gold but mega-profits, with little social investment or sustainable economic development. They also point out that the mine’s best jobs are being given to outsiders, while there are few local financial benefits. Cajamarca is the second poorest region in Peru.

Epic Climate Action Tour Heading To UN Negotiations

July 4, 2014 Rising Tide North America, www.facebook.com Resist! Climate Change, Latin America, Peru, UN

This group of intrepid climate activists needs your urgent help to lift up climate justice struggles in Latin America! https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/climate-caravan-through-latin-america Here's a message from one of the organizers: "We've already toured from Northern Mexico to Panama, met and organized with communities, raised the call for climate justice on local radio and television, and made more than a dozen videos on the struggles and campaigns we've come in contact with. Currently we are in Panama, preparing the huge endeavor of shipping our tour-bus to Colombia, and making the connection from north to south a reality for communities fighting for climate justice in Latin America. We need your help to cover the cost of this part of our journey. This is the most expense and difficult expenditure that we have for the entire project. If we can make it across to South America, the Climate Caravan will be able to articulate with a whole continent of struggles and stories of communities that are on the front-lines of the climate crisis. Please consider making a donation to our cause in this crucial moment of this action-tour thru Latin America. We've already raised 3k but we need to urgently raise $2,000 more to cover the full cost shipping process and a bit more to get us to South America! Can you chip in to help us complete the tour?"

Peru Has ‘Licence To Kill’ Protesters

July 3, 2014 David Hill, www.theguardian.com Educate! Environment, Peru, Protesters

Some of the recent media coverage about the fact that more than 50 people in Peru – the vast majority of them indigenous – are on trial following protests and fatal conflict in the Amazon over five years ago missed a crucial point. Yes, the hearings are finally going ahead and the charges are widely held to be trumped-up, but what about the government functionaries who apparently gave the riot police the order to attack the protestors, the police themselves, and – following Wikileaks’ revelations of cables in which the US ambassador in Lima criticized the Peruvian government’s “reluctance to use force” and wrote there could be “implications for the recently implemented Peru-US FTA” if the protests continued – the role of the US government? The conflict broke out in northern Peru after mainly indigenous Awajúns and Wampis had been peacefully protesting a series of new laws which were supposedly emitted to comply with a trade agreement between Peru and the US and which made it easier, among other things, for extractive industries to exploit natural resources in their territories. Following a blockade of a highway near a town called Bagua – and an agreement that the protestors would break up and go home, reached the day before – early on 5 June the police moved to clear it and started shooting. In the ensuing conflict, 10 police officers, five indigenous people and five non-indigenous civilians were killed, more than 200 injured – at least 80 of whom were shot – and, elsewhere in the Bagua region, a further 11 police officers were killed after being taken hostage.

Peru – Mining & Human Rights Defenders

July 2, 2014 Front Line Defenders, www.frontlinedefenders.org Resist! Environment, Human Rights, Mining, Peru

Front Line Defenders visited Peru in February 2014 and travelled extensively in the Cajamarca and Cusco regions investigating ongoing conflict between mining companies and indigenous and campesino rights defenders. Front Line Defenders has found that HRDs in Peru often live and work in a very tense situation and have been the direct target of intimidation, death threats, physical attacks, surveillance, stigmatisation, smear campaigns, and judicial harassment. All these documented instances appear to be directly related to legitimate and peaceful work carried out by the HRDs concerned, in particular in supporting the local communities opposed to mining projects and their impact on their environment, territory and livelihood.

Conflict With Local Communities Hits Mining and Oil Companies Where It Hurts

May 20, 2014 Stephen Leahy, www.ipsnews.net Resist! Mining, Peru

Conflicts with local communities over mining, oil and gas development are costing companies billions of dollars a year. One corporation alone reported a six billion dollar cost over a two-year period according to the first-ever peer-reviewed study on the cost of conflicts in the extractive sector. The Pascua Lama gold mining project in Chile has cost Canada’s Barrick Gold 5.4 billion dollars following 10 years of protests and irregularities. No gold has ever been mined and the project has been suspended on court order. And in Peru, the two billion dollar Conga copper mining project was suspended in 2011 after protests broke out over the projected destruction of four high mountain lakes. The U.S.-based Newmont Mining Co, which also operates the nearby Yanacocha mine, has now built four reservoirs which, according to its plan, are to be used instead of the lakes. “Communities are not powerless. Our study shows they can organise and mobilise, which results in substantial costs to companies,” said co-author Daniel Franks of Australia’s University of Queensland, who is also deputy director of the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining. “Unfortunately conflicts can also result in bloodshed and loss of life,” Franks told Tierramérica. The study is based on 45 in-depth, confidential interviews with high-level officials in the extractive (energy and mining) industries with operations around the world.

Mass Trial Of Indigenous Leaders Set To Begin This Week In Peru

May 13, 2014 John Ahni Schertow, www.intercontinentalcry.org Resist! Indigenous Rights, Peru

A massive trial involving 53 Indigenous leaders and activists is set to begin this week, reviving the tragic events that took place four years ago in the Amazonas Region of Peru. In April 2009, a national indigenous mobilization was organized to stop a plan by the Peruvian government to roll-back indigenous land rights and make it easier for industry to exploit the Amazon rainforest. The first month of the mobilization, led by more than 1200 communities, was largely peaceful. However, that began to change on May 9, 2009, when the Peruvian government declared a state of emergency in the regions of Loreto, Amazonas, Cusco, and Ucayali–where thousands of Indigenous Peoples were concentrating their efforts. Once the state of emergency was declared, the number of confrontations with police and military began to climb. Nevertheless, the mobilization pressed on, with Indigenous Peoples carrying out daily protest actions across the country.

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