There's another confrontation brewing up.
Briefly, Hunt Oil and Repsol have been searching for oil in a part of the Amazon basin in southern Peru that is an indigenous reserve. The indigenous people living there have legal rights to preserve the integrity of the reserve (flora, fauna, community livelihoods and all that) and the final word on whether there is mineral development there. Unsurprisingly, they don't want it to happen.
On 13 September, representatives of Hunt Oil, Repsol and the indigenous people signed a final agreement which said that "the entry of Hunt Oil and Respol into the interior of the RCA [the Reserva Comunal Amarakaeri] to execute seismic projects is not accepted, a decision that will be respected by the Peruvian State, Hunt Oil and Repsol".
But the people running the seismic survey still haven't left, or even halted the survey. So the executive committee in charge of the administration of the reserve has signed and published a "pronunciamento", saying that they will, if necessary, use force to throw the company and its staff off the reserve if they refuse to go willingly.
Here's a blog report in English:
http://incakolanews.blogspot.com/2009/1 ... mazon.htmlMeanwhile, the horrible story about alleged detention/kidnap and torture of local environmental protesters at a then British-owned copper mine in Peru (and allowing one of them to bleed slowly to death), which I've been following for ages, has finally reached the high court in London. (Again, the background is that the company failed to abide by the laws protecting the local community and their environment.)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oc ... ng-protesthttp://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... ontroversy
Shes never interfered with me. I have no complaints about her.
Same here.
Mega ditto.
I met her once and I found her to be a nice lady. Not kookey in any way.
Penta has always been gracious, kind and very sane in all my interactions with her.