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Peruvian Rainforest Is the Wampís Natural Hospital
FROM THE EDITORS: At the beginning of the pandemic, several states opted to declare a state of emergency as a precautionary measure aimed at addressing the emergency. The indigenous organizations of t...
Indigenous Peoples Hold the Past and Future of Food In Their Hands
August 9 is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples—a celebration of the uniqueness of the traditions of Quechua, Huli, Zapotec, and thousands of other cultures, but also of the univer...
Chile: We Demand Special Indigenous Policy for COVID-19 Pandemic
FROM THE EDITORS: An impressive coalition of Mapuche, Kerwen, Aymara, Quechua, Likan Antai, Colla, and Kawesqar indigenous peoples in Chile has launched a call for the lack of specialized attention fo...
Paddling Countercurrent: Food Sovereignty in the Pandemic
FROM THE EDITORS: Native American peoples have been trying for years to build networks that allow them to create a food production system that helps strengthen the autonomy of the tribes, and that pro...
Precautionary Measures against Ethnocide: Strategic Alliances Push for the Protection of Indigenous People
On April 7 a catastrophic oil spill in Ecuador polluted the Coca and Napo Rivers where 27 thousand indigenous and 90 thousand mestizo people depend on for drinking water and fishing. It was a predicta...
For a Social, Ecological, Economic and Intercultural Pact for Latin America
FROM THE EDITORS: The COVID pandemic has exposed an urgent global need to generate fundamental changes that reject the unlimited accumulation of capital through the exploitation of our bodies and Moth...
Perú: 11 Years After “Baguazo” Massacre, A Call for Justice
In 2009, right in the middle of the Free Trade Agreement negotiations with the United States, and as part of the government’s strategy to bypass the legislative branch, the president of Peru Ala...
Brazil Honors the Memory of Payakan, Continues the Struggle
FROM THE EDITORS: The indigenous leader of the Kayapó people, “Paulinho” Bepkororoti Payakan, who led the fight against the Belo Monte hydroelectric plant, fell victim to COVID yesterday. ...
#ForaGarimpoForaCovid: Amazon Tribes Launch Call for Solidarity
From the Editors: The Yanomani and Ye’kwana are indigenous people living in the Roraima e Amazonas states, in the northeastern region of the Amazon under control of the Brazilian government. Und...