Peru:Oil companies ‘should withdraw’ as Peru ‘faces its Tiananmen’ 8 June 2009Survival International today called on all oil companies operating in the Peruvian Amazon to suspend operations as the country comes to terms with the worst political violence since the Shining Path insurgency in the 1980s.
Peru:ConocoPhillips poses 'deadly' threat to uncontacted tribes 21 May 2009One of the United States’ largest energy companies, ConocoPhillips, could constitute a ‘deadly’ threat to uncontacted tribes in northern Peru, says a new report by AmazonWatch and Save America’s Forests (SAF).
Peru:'State of emergency' declared in the Amazon 14 May 2009Peru’s government has declared a ‘state of emergency’ in several regions in the Amazon following protests involving thousands of indigenous people.
Peru:Perenco chairman meets president as Indians protest across Amazon 30 April 2009The chairman of Anglo-French oil company Perenco has told the Peruvian president his company will invest $2 billion in the country, as Indians protest against the invasion of their territories by oil companies.
Peru:Indians blockade main Amazon tributary 24 April 2009A large number of Indians have blockaded one of the Amazon’s main tributaries, the Napo River, in response to the violation of their rights by oil companies and Peru’s government.
