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6 jun 2009
PERU:FINANCIAL TIMES,Protests over Peru land rights escalate
By Naomi Mapstone in Lima
Published: June 4 2009 03:00 | Last updated: June 4 2009 03:00
Peru’s investment-friendly government is under intense pressure from Amazonian indigenous communities, whose protests over new land rights laws have curtailed oil and gas production, blocked roads and ports and interrupted train services to the Macchu Picchu Incan ruins.
The demonstrations by the Awajun, Huambis and Asháninka communities have prompted warnings of fuel rationing within a fortnight, even before the capture at the weekend of two valves on the sole pipeline between Peru’s Camisea gas field to the coast.