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...while 12 police officers were killed at the pumping station. The stretch of highway around 500 miles north of Lima in Amazonas state has now been cleared of demonstrators but the indigenous protests, which entered its third full month June 9, are not over and the political fallout for Garcia and his government is just beginning. (Read a story about the Peruvian Amazon region, which covers close to two-thirds of the country...
...building pressure for the resignation of Cabinet Chief Yehude Simon and Interior Minister Mercedes Cabanillas, whose office oversees the National Police. Even the normally staid daily El Comercio, dean of Peru's press, called for both ministers to quit. (Read about the political troubles of Peru's Alan Garcia...
Cabanillas, a key member of Garcia's APRA party and its presidential candidate in 1995, is routinely referred to at the Peruvian Margaret Thatcher for her tough stands. Administration sources say that she was the president's pick to become chief of staff in July, when Garcia starts the fourth year of a five-year term that ends in July 2011. That is now politically untenable. The ministers have claimed so far that they have no intention of stepping down and the administration, while saying it wants dialogue to end the tension, maintains that it will not modify the series...
...same event, Garcia shouted that protesters were ignorant: he used the word two more times in the speech in case anyone missed it the first time. The right-wing conservative hinted loudly that the left wing governments of Venezuela (under Hugo Chavez) and Bolivia (under Evo Morales) were somehow behind the protests and financing the conspiracy. He demanded that Peruvians defend the progress he said his government was making to modernize the country...
...heart of the crisis stretches back a year, when the Garcia government, using special powers granted it by Congress, passed nearly 100 legislative decrees to facilitate implementation of a free-trade agreement with the United States. The agreement came into force this past February. Indigenous communities, under AIDESEP, objected to a number of decrees that dealt with water and land rights. They argued that the decrees would not only increase the number of oil and logging concessions already granted in the country's 67 million hectares (165 million acres) of rain forest, but allow for the actual sale of their...