A woman cries as she watches police search one of her relatives, unseen, in the street in Bagua Grande, Peru, Saturday, June 6, 2009. Clashes broke out early Friday when security forces moved to break up a roadblock by some 5,000 Indians that was mounted in early April, to protest oil and gas exploration on their lands in the Amazon. Peruvian authorities say 20 police have died in the clashes and Indian protest leaders say 25 Indians have died in the clashes. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro) TOP STORY - 34 dead in Peru protests (Latin American Herald Tribune)
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Both the government and the oligarchy's media are trying to portray this case as a conflict between barbarism and civilization. We are asked to believe that president García is some kind of Tsar Peter the Great who is determined to westernize La Selva (peruvian rainforest) at all costs. And the multinational oil corporations are supposed to be the agents of “civilization”. This is so pathetic.
People are dying and Peru is becoming fascist.
I think Garcia is just digging the right's grave with all this butchery.
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