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Shipibo people protest in the Amazonian town of Contamana against the Genocide Bill. © ORAU
A DELEGATION of indigenous peoples from Brazil has joined forces with organisations in Peru to fight against the latter’s Congress from passing a Bill aimed at taking land from uncontacted people.
The proposals, dubbed “the Genocide Bill” by indigenous campaigners, will allow the government to revoke the official recognition of any uncontacted tribe’s existence, open their land to oil and gas drilling, logging and mining, and block the creation of new reserves for uncontacted tribes whose land is currently not protected.
The proposal was brought forward by congressman Jorge Morante from the far-right Popular Force party, which champions the brutal policies set forth during the former US-backed dictatorship of Alberto Fujimori, and is supported by Peru’s oil and gas industry.
Newly revealed documents reveal that MI5 taught Brazilian secret police the techniques deployed by the 1964-85 military dictatorship in horrific prisons like Rio de Janeiro’s House of Death. SARA VIVACQUA reports
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
