1st Edition
Peru: A Chronicle of Deception Attempts to Transfer the Awajun Border Territory in the Cordillera del Condor to the Mining Industry
By Sylvia Fisher Carrasco
Copyright 2010
64 Pages
by
International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
This report argues and demonstrates that the Peruvian government acted in bad faith by modifying the original proposal to create the Ichigkat Muja National Park agreed upon with the Awajun and Wampis indigenous communities of the District of El Cenepa, Department of Amazonas, Peru. The proposal to create a protected natural area in the Cordillera del Condor, the traditional land of these... Read more
Prologue, Introduction, The Cordillera del Cóndor and the Cenepa River Basin, The Continued Awajún Occupation in the Cenepa River Basin, Gold: Motivation to Conquer the Land of the Jivaro Peoples, Indigenous Patterns of Land Occupation in the Cenepa River Basin, Awajún Land and the Border, The Continuing Search for Legal Certainty of the Terrority, The Cordillera del Cóndor, Biodiversity and the Cenepa River Basin, The Establishment of the Santiago-Comaina Reserved Zone, The Land Agreement with the Creation of the National Park, Frustration with Agreements favouring Secret Commitments with the Mining Sector, Gold in Peace Negotiations, Growing Unrest, Corporate Lobbying, Mining Risks in the Cordillera del Cóndor The Context of Socio-environmental Conflicts in Peru, Violated Rights and the Need for Precautionary Measures, Legal Actions Undertaken and Current Situation, Request, Notes.
Biography
Translated by Sylvia Fisher Carrasco.
