Oxfam International launched 2 movies on the planned Río Blanco mining project in Northern Peru, focussing on the possible environmental impact of the project and human rights violations.

LIMA, Feb 1, 2010 (IPS) - Experts and activists in Peru complain that while mining corporations are cashing in on soaring metals prices, they continue to enjoy exemption from royalties and corporate taxes, if they reinvest their profits.

Video of the protest in front of the British Embassy in Lima after the 2 dead people in Huancabamba.

On Wednesday 2^nd of December in the afternoon, a new violent confrontation between local residents and police occurred in the town of Cajas Canchaque, district of Carmen de la Frontera, in the province of Huancabamba (Piura, Northern Peru).

CATAPA has long been working on the Majaz case in Peru. Recently a new documentary about the case was made by the London-based filmmaker Michael Watts, and is available online:

Laguna Negra is a film that explores the core values of a campesino community in Huancabamba (Peru), the way the fabric of this society has been threatened by large scale mining and the destructive outcome of imposing a capital intensive model of development on a society based on traditional values.

An article implying Peruvian Indians should be bombed with napalm (because of the conflict in Bagua) has been named by human rights organisation Survival International as the ‘most racist article’ published in the last year by the mainstream media.