Peru's President Vetoes Indigenous
Rights to Protect the Amazon

Alan Garcia, President of Peru, vetoed a law approved by Congress which would have granted indigenous groups the right to oppose development projects in the Amazon region. The law would have given more power to indigenous and rural communities to control oil, mineral, and road development in the rainforest. Resource extraction and deforestation is increasingly
threatening much of the Peruvian Amazon, largely due
to resource demand from China.

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