Tag: Amazon area
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Four children found alive more than two weeks after plane crash
GHappy end to “Operation Hope”: Four children, including an eleven-month-old baby, have been found alive more than two weeks after a plane crash in the dense Colombian Amazon rainforest. “Happiness for the country,” said Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro on Twitter on Wednesday. The children of the indigenous Huitoto people were found “after a tedious search…
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Amazon region: Around 150 tourists arrested in Peru are free again
DTourists held by protesting villagers in the Peruvian Amazon are free again. “It has been confirmed to me that the ships can return to the ports from which they left,” Peru’s Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism, Roberto Sánchez, said on Friday. Holidaymakers would now be taken downstream to Nauta near the mouth of the…
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Gold diggers against Yanomami: Increasing violence against jungle indigenous people
Mhe cruel double murder of the British journalist Dom Phillips and the Brazilian indigenous activist Bruno Pereira, who had worked to protect the indigenous population in the rainforest, made it clear to the whole world what is happening in the Amazon region – and has been happening ever since by the right-wing Brazilian government: Violence…