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+ Omega Commercial Finance Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Peruvian Gold Mine + Omega Commercial Finance Corporation is pleased to announce that it has signed a Definitive Agreement to acquire from Ruby Trust ...

+ PERU: Families of Dead Native Protesters Tell Their Stories + Sobbing, an indigenous woman dressed in black cries out as she sees us arrive: "My son, my son, they have killed my son!" She is ...

+ Clashes in Peru leave more than 30 dead + A nervous calm settled over Peru on Monday night, three days after clashes between indigenous citizens and national police left ...

+ Clashes in Peru leave more than 30 dead + Peruvian officials ordered the arrest Monday of 36 suspects in connection with clashes between indigenous citizens and the national ...

+ Nine Peruvian Police Killed in Rescue Attempt + Police officers carry the coffin containing the body of a comrade killed during clashes with Indians in Bagua Grande, in Callao, [...] a curfew over an Amazon jungle region after battles between indigenous protesters and government forces killed at least 39 people.

+ Bishops to Aid Mediation in Peruvian Amazon + LIMA, Peru, JUNE 11, 2009 .- Peru's bishops have agreed to work with the government in mediating the ongoing clashes in the ...

+ Voices Raised Against Violence in Peru + Violent confrontations broke out Friday as approximately 400 Peruvian riot police used force to dismantle a blockade built by ...

+ Protesters Gird for Long Fight Over Opening Peru's Amazon + IQUITOS, Peru - Faced with a simmering crisis over dozens of deaths in the quelling of indigenous protests last week, Peru's ...

+ Peru Congress suspends decrees that upset Indians + Relatives of Raul Mayhuasca, a police officer who was killed during clashes with Indians, cry at his funeral in Lima, Wednesday, ...

+ Peru suspends decrees that fueled Amazon violence + Peruvian lawmakers Wednesday suspended a controversial law that eased restrictions on lumber harvesting in the Amazon rain forest, ...

+ 9 Hostage Officers Killed as Peru Soldiers and Protesters Clash + Relatives of a police officer killed in clashes between the military and protesters attended a mourning service in Lima, Peru. ...

+ Amazon Indians challenge Peru government over land + The Aguaruna Indians have a well-earned reputation as warriors. In pre-Columbian times they successfully resisted Inca subjugation. ...

+ Peru Indian leader seeks Nicaragua exile + LIMA, Peru A Peruvian Indian leader charged with sedition for heading protests against Amazon development has sought refuge in ...

+ Deepika Padukone first Indian face of Latin American Vogue + Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone has become the first Indian beauty to be on the cover of Latin America's Vogue, Femalefirst ...

+ Nine more police killed in Amazon protests in Peru + Amazon Indians form a barricade at the entrance to Yurimaguas city in a remote Amazon region of northern Peru on Saturday. ...

+ Officers buried, Indian protests continue in Peru + By FRANKLIN BRICENO President Alan Garcia accused Amazon Indians of "barbarity" Sunday in the killing of 22 members of a ...

+ Dozens dead and wounded in Peruvian Amazon clashes + Up to 33 people died and 100 were wounded as Amazon tribes clashed with Peruvian police on Friday in escalating protests against ...

+ Deaths mount in Peruvian battles with Indian protesters + LIMA, Peru - Soldiers today stormed an oil pumping station in the Amazon where Indian protesters were holding police hostage, and ...

+ 13 killed in Peru as Indians battle police + Reporting from Lima, Peru, and Bogota, Colombia -- Protests by indigenous communities over oil drilling and mining in the Peruvian ...

+ Up to 34 reported killed in police battle Indians protesting Amazon gas, oil exploration + Indians block a road as tear gas fired by police smokes behind in Bagua Grande in Peru's northern province of Utcubamba, Friday, ...