[WSF-Discuss] Same struggles for ecuadorian and peruvian indigenous people ?

[Anthony Côte]

The precedent link to the article doesn't seem to work. Here's a  
better one :

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iIAPz9R1ckR9FfJNk_8LfTKuP8dQD9B2B7QO0

Le 01-10-09 à 10:46, Anthony Côte a écrit :

> Hello everyone,
>
> Even if I read each post made to WSFDiscuss list very carefully, I'm  
> not used to write in it so much. But I wanted to share an  
> information that seems very interesting and worrying as well.
>
> The crisis in Peru between indigenous people and government about  
> unfair land laws that opened the way for free forest exploitation by  
> transnational corporations was one of the hot topics of the past few  
> months.
>
> And now a similar story seems to begin in Ecuador. The Washington  
> Post published on its website today (October 1st) an article from  
> Jeanneth Valdivieso (Associated Press) which is reporting clashes  
> between police and indigenous people in Ecuador protesting against  
> laws similar to Peru's one. These clashes are said to have left one  
> indigenous killed and several wounded from both sides.
>
> Here's the link for the whole article :
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2009/09/30/AR2009093005385.html?wprss=rss_world/wires
>
> There is something very interesting in this story I think. As usual,  
> corporations tries to make profit destroying everything without any  
> conscience on social or environnemental levels (maybe the only green  
> they see is dollar's one ?). But this time it's not with the  
> complicity of a right-wing government as in Peru, but with help from  
> a left-wing-one ! It is effectively very surprising (or more  
> cynically «interesting») to see President Rafael Correa, the same  
> who spoke with four other left-wing president at the WSF, giving  
> support to corporations by making this law and use coercition  
> against indigenous protesters...
>
> This is only a first analysis and I'm not a specialist of the  
> question so I will be very glad to hear all the analysis you will  
> make about that and to have also any further information as they  
> will come to you (and us)
>
> And one last thing : I apologize for this english-only e-mail but  
> I'm not fluent enough in Portuguese nor Spanish to write what i said  
> in these languages (As a french-speaker, English is already a  
> foreign language for me !)
>
> I hope there will be a good exchange on this ecuadorian question,
>
> Best regards to all,
>
> Anthony Côte
> Student in Political Science at the Université de Montréal (Canada)
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