Peru
via AFP
Some 65 indigenous groups in Peru's Amazon rainforest have been protesting the Garcia liberalization decrees since early April. They are also demanding to be consulted on issues concerning their land."We represent 1,350 communities, the equivalent of 600,000 Amazon Indians, and we ask the government to consider 25 million hectares (62 million acres) as ancestral territory," protest leader Alberto Pizango recently told AFP.
Garcia seems to have initiated combat operations with a movement order for 400+ heavily armed men in body armor with helicopter gunship support to "clear" an area of a roadway where lightly armed civilians were turning back hydrocarbon extraction logistical support vehicles.