Yetel Ricaño Noguera
yetel@rvictoria.icrt.cu
Translation: Ernesto Gutierrez Pino

Las Tunas. – With the promise of abolishing the seven remaining decrees on the exploitation of the amazon forest, Peru counts its deads. It was a real holocaust and now there is a question in mind, how much more we will steal the native people?

Once again longings of privatizing lands, forests, sky, oxygen. Once again the distribution of virginal lands of Peru among the wealthy persons is the easiest path to leave the World Economic Crisis.

Pieces of forest that didn't affect the life to the city man, but whose sale put the natives in a more and more narrow land to develop their traditions.

The idea of modernizing the country by means of the usufruct in the Amazonia denied the voice to the main affected ones: the Peruvian natives.

But they responded like they could, with manifestations that caused bloody confrontations to save their identity, their traditions and their right to be heard, in the land where their ancestors inhabited.

The police and the demonstrators suffered many deaths. Sorrow that could be avoided if the government, headed by president Alan Garcia, has heard those citizens who the dignitary didn't consider of importance, in spite of being an autochthonous people, with some 390 communities that refuse to sell their nature, their home, their capital.

Fortunately for Latin America, so plundered during centuries, a native unity persists to guard its hills, its air, its water, and its indigenous life.