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Protesters Gird for Long Fight Over Opening Peru’s Amazon
Jun 12 2009, Yoann

Faced with a simmering crisis over dozens of deaths in the quelling of indigenous protests last week, Peru’s Congress this week suspended the decrees that had set off the protests over plans to open large parts of the Peruvian Amazon to investment....

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