Peru News » Amazona News Peru » Amazona » Politics: Peru election highlights lack of plans to tackle illegal mining despite growing environmental crisis
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Peruvians head to the polls Sunday to elect a new president and Congress, but illegal mining — a major driver of deforestation and mercury pollution — has received little ...
News Peru » Amazona » Politics: Plans of Peru’s new administration spur concern among environmentalists
Keiko Sofía Fujimori Higuchi from the Popular Force Party was sworn in as the new president of Peru on July 28. Fujimori, who has pledged to tackle insecurity using greater force and militarization, ...
News Peru » Amazona » Politics: Peru’s Politics Are a Disaster, but Does It Matter?
There was a meme going around among Peruvians a few months ago: a picture of the underside of a bottle cap, the kind that announces you’ve won a prize. “Congratulations,” the cap reads. “You’re the ...
News Peru » Amazona » Politics: The making of an autonomous Indigenous nation in Peru’s Amazon
If you liked this story, share it with other people. The Wampís Indigenous people of northern Peru have spent decades resisting the expansion of oil drilling and other extractive projects in their ...
News Peru » Amazona » Politics: Peru court hands lengthy prison terms in killing of Indigenous Amazon defender
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
News Peru » Amazona » Politics: Peru’s political establishment lines up behind unelected far-right government
Protest against Jose Jeri. The sign on the left reads "Jose Puppeti, I did not elect thee, Down with the Congressional Mafia" [Photo by QM Keen / CC BY-SA 4.0] Amid a wave of mass protests against ...
News Peru » Amazona » Politics: War of Words Erupts Between Colombia and Peru Over Island in Amazon
Both nations claim Santa Rosa de Yavarí, a tiny island of just 3,000 people that sits in the Amazon River, more than a thousand miles from their capitals. By Julie Turkewitz and Mitra Taj Julie ...