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The female leader Cleofé Neyra passed away ending April 2021. Her name jumped up after being identified like one of the tortured women up next a protest at the straight former Majaz mining camp.   By Alan Cristóbal Pintado Salinas (PENSAMIENTO PROFANO )  

How much do users of Piura, Peru's health post family Planning service kknow about emergency oral contraception? By Marco Paulini .   LANCONÉS, Peru -- Huasimal de la Solana belongs to Lanconés District, Sullana Province  and it is located 50 km northeast its capital city. Lanconés District limits by the North to Tumbés Department and ecuador, by the South to Sullana and Querecotillo Districts (Sullana), by the East to Las Lomas (Piura) and Suyo (Ayabaca) Districts, and by the West to Marcavelica District (Sullana). It's sunny along the year. Poechos Reservoir has created a mycroclimate in the zone, that estimulates fog in the winter. In the rainy season, the village leaves isolated because almost all Lanconés is divided by creeks. We are talking about ways for cars or donkeys, using in some places the creeks courses. Most people move on animals, motorcycles, by walking, an few by car. Getting communicated by phone is complicated but there is actual access to mas...

An organization could be created just to set a lawsuit against opposers.   By Julio Vásquez Calle (Water, Democracy, and Development Regional Network)   PIURA CITY, Peru – In July 2008, Piura’s 5 th Prosecution Office began questionnaries to people accused of terrorism – farmer leaders, mayors, NGO members among them.   The notified were San Ignacio (Cajamarca)’s Mayor Carlos Martínez Solano, president of Northern Border Sustainable Development Front(FDSFN by its initials in Spanish), Ayabaca’s Mayor Humberto Marchena, Huancabamba’s Mayor Valentín Quevedo, el Carmen de la Frontera’s Mayor Ismael Huayama, and Ayabaca’s First Councellor Deiber Flores, as well as San Ignacio’s Municipal Manager Euler Jave Díaz.   Also included were Javier Janhcke Benavente (Fedepaz), Wilson Ramiro Ibañez (Muqui Network), Biologist Fidel Torres , Mario Tabra Guerrero among others.   Most of the accused are representatives of farmer people in Piura Andes and San Ignacio that are...

A new book is, actually, a guideline to reshape environmental conflicts and to sustain a non-violent life.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo   SANTA CRUZ, California – Latin America seems to be the deadliest region in the world for defending the environment. Since 2012, Global Witness , "specifically ... has identified Brazil, Honduras, and Peru as places where this issue concentrates," University of California in Santa Cruz (UCSC)'s Michael Wilson Becerril states in his doctoral thesis, now a book titled Resisting Extractivism , released through Vanderbilt University Press.   It took Wilson almost one year and a half of more than 250 interviews with mining executives and managers, community leaders, local people, journalists, academics, and anyone who had something to say, especially about four paradigmatic social conflicts caused by extractive industries in Northern Peru — mining , to be concrete.   "One-third of the world’s mining investment concentrates in Lat...

Are there mining agents using the same methods for dismissing their debunkers?   by Liliana Alzamora Flores & Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo   SULLANA, Peru – An environmentalist leader denounces attempts against his environment and he doesn’t shut up despite the threats. He’s murdered and his killer leaves many clues to discover him, but by some reason –and there are documents proving it—his closest son in the fight ends becoming the top suspect of a criminal fact.   It’s the case of Arsecio Gonza Castillo but it’s also the same model of another happened in 2001 with the beloved Godofredo Garcia Baca . Was the same script followed up, or is there a criminal involvement for real on behalf of a justice that has been blocked?  Is it a vendetta?  But whose against whom?   Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011, four handmade miners were murdered near a minehole in Pueblo Nuevo de Santa Rosa Town, Suyo District , Ayabaca. It started to awake and the miner...