Monday, June 29, 2009

Peru Overturns Decrees That Incited Protests

From: The New York Times
Author: Simon Romero



CARACAS, Venezuela — Peru’s Congress on Thursday overturned two decrees by President Alan García that were aimed at opening large areas of the Peruvian Amazon to logging, dams and oil drilling but set off protests by indigenous groups this month in which dozens died.

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