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Weekly Report - 08 July 2010 (WR-10-27)
PERU: Government changes tack in Amazon dispute
Peru's interior ministry has expelled a British missionary, Paul
Michael John Thomas McAuley, for fomenting unrest in the Amazon and conspiring
against the State. McAuley, who has run a civil association, Red Ambiental
Loretana, in the jungle city of Iquitos near Ecuador since 2006, claims he has
only ever sought to protect the environment and promote indigenous rights. His
expulsion opens a new chapter in the government's struggle with the Asociación
Interétnica de Desarrollo de la Amazonía Peruana (Aidesep), the umbrella
indigenous group resisting President Alan García's plans to open up the Amazon
to foreign energy and mining companies. It comes just after García refused to
ratify a law approved by congress under which the State would have to consult
indigenous communities about planned “development projects" [WR-10-26].
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