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Bacchus39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-11 12:01 PM
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Peru declares state of emergency
Edited on Mon Dec-05-11 12:02 PM by Bacchus39
http://news.yahoo.com/peru-declares-state-emergency-032528785.html

By FRANKLIN BRICENO | AP – 12 hrs agoEmailShare1PrintLIMA, Peru (AP) — President Ollanta Humala declared a 60-day state of emergency Sunday in a northern region torn by more than a week of protests against a highlands gold mine, the country's biggest investment, by peasants who fear for their water supply.

The emergency restricts civil liberties such as the right to assembly and allows arrests without warrants in four provinces of Cajamarca state that have been paralyzed for 11 days by increasingly violent protests against the $4.8-billion Conga gold and copper mining project. U.S.-based Newmont Mining Corp. is the project's majority owner.

Dozens have been injured in clashes between police and protesters, some of whom have vandalized Conga property.

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Humala told Cajamarca during campaign swings before his June election that clean water was more important for him than gold. Many local inhabitants said they now feel betrayed by the president.

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ocpagu Donating Member (154 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-11 12:12 PM
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1. ...
"The emergency restricts civil liberties such as the right to assembly and allows arrests without warrants"

It's still better than PATRIOT Act, isn't it?

BTW, how are the clashes between police and Occupy movement protesters going?
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Bacchus39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-11 12:20 PM
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2. I don't know, is it???
clashes between OWS and police continue last I heard.
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ocpagu Donating Member (154 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-11 12:25 PM
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3. You don't know?
Edited on Mon Dec-05-11 12:26 PM by ocpagu
Ok then.

Brazil once had a legislation very similar to PATRIOT Act. It's called "Ato Institucional Número 5". It was passed in 1968, during the military dictactorship.
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Bacchus39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-11 12:38 PM
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4. is that right? what do you think about Peru's actions?
do you think the protesters will prevail, like in Bolivia against the highway, or the government and the mining interests?
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ocpagu Donating Member (154 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-11 04:33 PM
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5. That's right.
There are a lot of people in the United States who disagree with the "authoritarian" character of some Latin American countries, without noticing that several of these countries are in fact less authoritarian than their own.

I don't know who will prevail and I believe that's what less important to some people, although it should be the most important. I think some people tend to value criticism for criticism itself instead of criticism as pressure for a change.

Peru has changed in the last elections. That's why it's so important that it now becames the subject of criticism for criticism itself. Something tells me we'll start seeing a lot of negative mentions in the press about that country...

How about you? Who do you think will prevail. Wall Street gangsters and the government, or the Occupy protesters?
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Bacchus39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-11 04:44 PM
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6. what???? is it OK to criticize the Peru governmen't actions???
if the Humala government continues to act this way criticism is more than justified.

anyway, there are plenty of threads on OWS. this is the Latin American forum.

the Peru protesters have an actual goal of preventing a mine which will cause environmental destruction.

OWS is much more nebulous.
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