Which is not unusual.
South America
URGENT: Máxima Acuña receives death threats from Yanacocha worker
Maxima Acuña de Chaupe, the human rights defender who has stood up to the world´s second largest gold producer and refused to leave her land, has received numerous death threats from a Yanacocha worker allegedly acting on orders from the company.
The worker, who is employed by Yanacocha to supposedly watch the alpacas that Yanacocha strategically placed in front of Maxima´s home, threatened to ´make her disappear´, reported Maxima´s son Daniel on Thursday, 30th July.
Read the rest of the story here.
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/-7GzwjwEsQE?rel=0&showinfo=0
Here is another good article.
International Women’s Day: A hommage to Maxima Acuña de Chaupe
Over the last 4 years, Máxima Acuña de Chaupe has led her peaceful struggle against US-based Newmont Mining Corporation and its Peruvian subsidiary Yanacocha. By doing so, she is also defying a deeply entrenched system of impunity and injustice that afflicting communities and activists engaged in the ongoing conflicts over resources in Peru.
Here is the CEO off Newmont Mining Corporation. Guess he does not give a damn. His hands are bloody.
Gary J. Goldberg
Corporate Headquarters
United States
6363 South Fiddler’s Green Circle
Suite 800
Greenwood Village, CO 80111
T: 303.863.7414
F: 303.837.5837
Murdered trying to save the rain forest.
Lets save the rain forest. Sounds nice and easy. Right? Well in reality some people that live in the jungle in Peru die trying to save their home in the rain forest. Edwin Chota was one of those people.
Gunned down over trees that are worth big money. Edwin Chota was gunned down with some other men trying to defend the jungle that they called home. The corruption is so bad in some governments and the trees worth so much money, that Edwin Chota’s life wasn’t worth a shit to the people that murdered him.
Edwin Chota was someone in the way of easy money. For now the illegal logging continues in Peru.
His family fled the jungle after he was murdered.
Here is a link to a good article on Edwin Chota.
Original photo: Emory Richey
Adobe village in Santa Catalina, Peru. Plus chickens in fashion.
The long winding road up to the village.
Though no hobbits live here, the village of Santa Catalina has that feeling. The feeling of maybe I’ll run into a hobbit. Quaint adobe homes with odd doors and unorthodox stairs. Chickens roaming free in the high Andes mountains of Peru.
Medicinal hot springs Collpa, Peru.
Do you believe in the power of healing mineral water or maybe you just like sitting in a nice hot bath. Either way Peru offers many hot springs to try and they say Collpa’s water is the best for healing your sick body. Stories abound of people that have been cured of their ills.
Getting to Collpa is tough. First you go to the town of Huaral that is 3 hours North of Lima from Peru by bus. Huaral has gone to shit, because they put a prison in the town. So watch your back at night. Then you take a shared taxi (20 Nuevo Soles per person) or van to Collpa up a crazy dirt mountain road for 3 hours. Pick your driver wisely, because the trip is treacherous and some young macho drivers haul ass. Also you might want to pay extra and only have 3 people in the back seat of the taxi. They jam them full and uncomfortable for 3 hours.
Viscas, Peru.
Three hours up a four donkey wide dirt road from Mala, Peru you will find the one hotel town of Viscas, Peru. Viscas is a producer of fruits (mainly apple). The long twisting road from Mala offers some nerve racking cliff hanger views from your bus or van.
Red Dodge truck in apple country Peru, South America.
People that are fortunate enough to have a truck/car in Peru really take care of them. This old dodge looks pretty solid. Lots of times they are held together with putty.
