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Indigenous men with spears block the highway at the entrance to Yurimaguas city, during a barricade, in the Amazon region of northern Peru
11 Jun 2009
Source: Reuters
 
Indigenous men with spears block the highway at the entrance to Yurimaguas city, during a barricade, in the Amazon region of northern Peru, June 11, 2009. Peru's Congress on Wednesday suspended two land-use laws that sparked clashes in which 60 people were killed last week, but indigenous people opposed to development in the Amazon jungle vowed to keep protesting. Indigenous groups and trade unions called today for a general strike in Peru to pressure the government to scrap the laws and they vowed to continue demonstrations despite Wednesday's vote, which did not define how long the suspension would last. REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil (PERU CONFLICT POLITICS IMAGES OF THE DAY)
REUTERS/ENRIQUE CASTRO-MENDIVIL


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Protesters march during a nationwide strike in Lima July 8, 2009. Thousands of Peruvians marched and piled boulders on highways across Peru on Wednesday to protest the pro-business policies of President ...




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