Tabea Casique News Today

Activists welcomed on Saturday the decision by lawmakers to drop plans for a new law labelled a “Genocide Bill” by Peru’s Indigenous people. The bill would have opened up Indigenous lands for industrial exploitation by domestic and foreign capital—particularly for the extraction of lithium,...

The bill which had been drafted by Congresspeople with ties to the powerful oil and gas industry represented a threat to the many uncontacted tribes in the country, whose lands would have been opened up for industrial exploitation.