June 5, 2010 - Globalization has rolled into the Peruvian Amazon. The local indigenous communities have witnessed the forces of the global market up close and fear that they will be displaced and enslaved by outsiders eager to benefit from the valuable natural resources on their jungle lands —the petroleum, logging and mining companies as well as the swarms of settlers migrating into the jungle (Creoles from the cities and Indians from the highlands). The natives also worried that these outside forces will continue to debase the biodiversity of their forests.
Historically and all over the world, people facing invaders whom they believe are intent on destroying their world fight back, ferociously. Peru witnessed a tragic example of this very human response last 5 June in Bagua, where, tragically, so many Peruvians died...
