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PERU: INDIGENOUS PROTESTS SUCCESSFULLY REVERSE PRESIDENT ALAN GARCIA'S DECREES OPENING AMAZON TO OIL EXPLOITATION

  • Congress repeals tribal-land-sale decrees
  • Garcia restricts freedoms in response to protests
  • Criticisms of Garcia's policies toward native peoples
  • Economic protests and social conflicts grow

COLOMBIA: RED CROSS, REGIONAL MEDIA GROUPS OBJECT TO MILITARY MISUSE OF EMBLEMS IN HOSTAGE-RESCUE RAID

  • Red Cross: Geneva Conventions violated
  • Colombian troops impersonated TeleSUR, Ecuavisa journalists
  • Uribe government investigates leaker
  • Evidence of US involvement