considering he himself is an indigenous native Peruvian.
There are powerful forces, however, intent upon totally tearing the country apart, in search of more wealth, including some U.S. oil companies. I recall seeing the Hunt Oil Company in Texas has been involved in invading the Peruvian forests where there are actual people trying to survive.
The people in the forests have tried their best to avoid running across outsiders but it can't be done when they insist upon invading their rapidly shrinking world, bringing disease, and, of course, the ever popular assassinations of their strongest leaders.
I just ran across this photo of a precious child trying to live to adulthood, and beyond, if someone doesn't murder her, too:
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Ashéninka girl in south-east Peru[/center]
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Berlin: Peru President urged to protect uncontacted tribes’ land 14 July 2014
Ahead of the visit of Peru’s President Ollanta Humala to Germany for a climate conference this week, Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples’ rights, has written to the President urging him to protect the lands of highly vulnerable uncontacted tribes in the Amazon rainforest from illegal logging and drug trafficking.
The call follows alarming news that an uncontacted tribe has made contact with a settled indigenous community in Brazil. The Brazilian government believes that the Indians were pushed over the border from Peru due to the failure of the authorities to combat illegal logging and drug trafficking in their territory.
Uncontacted Indians in other areas of Peru’s Amazon also face threats from massive gas and oil projects on their land. Unless their lands are protected they face catastrophe from violence or deadly diseases to which they have no resistance.
More:
http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/10348
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US oil and gas firm Hunt urged to suspend Amazon exploration
Concerns over indigenous reserve and archaeological remains prompts call from local federation
Posted by
David Hill
Thursday 27 February 2014 12.12 EST
theguardian.com
An indigenous federation from south-east Peru wants exploration operations by US company Hunt Oil in a supposedly protected reserve in the Amazon to be suspended.
“This is not a fight against investment but a fight for a socially just, environmentally balanced and moral development,” says FENAMAD, which claims to represent seven indigenous peoples and more than 30 communities in Peru’s Madre de Dios region, in a statement released last Friday. “As a result we request. . . that operations – which are putting the cultural patrimony of the Harakbut people, the region and nation at risk – are stopped while the Master Plan for the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve [ACR] is brought up-to-date.”
FENAMAD states that there are “archaeological remains” in the ACR within “direct influence” of Hunt’s drilling, that the company itself has acknowledged this, and that as a result the Culture Ministry should intervene.
More:
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/andes-to-the-amazon/2014/feb/27/hunt-amazon-oil-gas-exploration-suspend
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It may be time for intervention from the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Clearly we have monsters who have seized control of our planet, and they somehow have bribed enough people to have the power of the world's militaries behind them should they decide they need to kill off a lot of stubborn people who won't just kill themselves and get out of their way so they, the "First World Monsters" may "grow" their wealth.
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