This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Peru’s Indigenous leaders have been lobbying lawmakers to pass a bill to declare swathes of virgin Amazon rain forest off limits to outsiders, but they fear opposition by the oil industry may scupper a rare opportunity to secure a vote this week.
“This reform will guarantee the lives and human rights of the uncontacted peoples,” Perez said, referring to an estimated 7,000 people in some 20 groups in the Peruvian Amazon who have very little or no interaction with the outside world. Indigenous leaders met with Vizcarra on Friday in anticipation that Congress could vote as early as this Thursday.
Peru’s oil industry – including state-owned firm Petroperu – has warned lawmakers against passing the amendment, which would close loopholes in a framework adopted in 2006 to protect Indigenous peoples from commercial interest encroachment.
I said wait your turn