On July 28, 2006, Alan García was sworn in to office for his second term as the President of Peru, 16 years since his first stint ended with social unrest and severe hyperinflation. In 2007, he delivered a nationally televised address in which he invited (or pleaded with) American entrepreneurs to invest in Peru and harvest the country’s finite natural resources. “We don’t have any political conflicts!” he boasted in a proto-Trumpian moment of goading the gods.
And then, on June 5, 2009, García ordered Peruvian police and military personnel to forcibly prevent protestors from blocking the major road that is used for accessing the country’s fertile Bagua region. Dozens of indigenous people and government troops were killed in the ensuing riot, and many more would die in the violence that resulted from that initial clash. No political conflicts, indeed.
All of this — and much more — is captured in Heidi Brandenburg and Matthew...
And then, on June 5, 2009, García ordered Peruvian police and military personnel to forcibly prevent protestors from blocking the major road that is used for accessing the country’s fertile Bagua region. Dozens of indigenous people and government troops were killed in the ensuing riot, and many more would die in the violence that resulted from that initial clash. No political conflicts, indeed.
All of this — and much more — is captured in Heidi Brandenburg and Matthew...
- 8/18/2016
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
In 2006 and 2007, Peruvian President Alan García, U.S. President George W. Bush, and their nation’s respective congresses approved a free trade agreement intended to boost Peru’s economy, in part by opening up its national resources to American corporations and entrepreneurs. In speeches at home and in the States, President García and his spokespeople insisted that foreign businesses could count on the cooperation of a stable government, with no major internal conflicts. But not long after big trucks started rolling into the Amazonian rainforest, the indigenous population—led by activist Alberto Pizango—began to mount protests, arguing that the laws passed to facilitate the free trade agreement were in violation of preexisting treaties that gave the natives the right to control their land.
Filmmakers Heidi Brandenburg and Mathew Orzel arrived in Peru right as the conflict over the Amazon was turning heated. Their documentary When Two Worlds ...
Filmmakers Heidi Brandenburg and Mathew Orzel arrived in Peru right as the conflict over the Amazon was turning heated. Their documentary When Two Worlds ...
- 8/16/2016
- by Noel Murray
- avclub.com
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