To quell protests, Peru suspends Amazon investment laws
Indigenous groups say government is just trying to stop efforts to protect
jungle from oil and logging development. More protests are planned today.
By Lucien Chavin | Correspondent
and Sara Miller Llana | Staff writer
from the June 11, 2009 edition
Lima, Peru; and Mexico City - Peru's Congress is trying to diffuse some of
the worst violence the country has seen in a decade.
The legislature voted Wednesday to temporarily suspend laws governing
investment in the Amazon jungle that are at the center of mass protests by
indigenous groups.
But the suspension may do little to halt protests planned for today and the
rising tensions that threaten to morph into a nationwide conflict....
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