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Native leader Alberto Pizango left Peru

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Isabel Guerra

Amazon protest leader Alberto Pizango has just left Peru on a plane headed for Nicaragua, where he has been granted political asylum.

Amazon leader Edson Rosales says Pizango left Lima Wednesday on a Copa Airlines commercial flight.

Pizango had left the Nicaraguan embassy under strict police surveillance.

The flight will stop in Panama and El Salvador before arriving in Managua.

Peru's Public Prosecutor's Office has started a process against Pizango, who is held responsible for inflamming tensions and provoking the recent Bagua clashes, which caused an official death toll of 24 police officers and 9 civilians. 

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# wow says :
17 June, 2009 [ 20:06 ]

AIDESP should be looked into , I bet you will find its members are full of a bunch of the illegal loggers thats why they dont want 1090 Chau pollo Pizango

# David N says :
17 June, 2009 [ 21:05 ]

This country is so screwed up.  Only in Peru would this clown amount to anything.  Now he leaves on a Copa flight?  LMAO.  Incites the people in the hinterland to riot, puts the country on edge, and then has to leave on a discount air carrier.  What a joke.

# Expat in Peru says :
17 June, 2009 [ 22:15 ]

Actually, the mere fact that Pizango was allowed to leave because he was granted political asylum in Nicaragua is the proof that Peru does respect human rights and at the same time contradicts Pizango’s claim that he would not get a fair trial in Peru. Not only is he a coward, running away with his tail between the legs, but also did the native cause  and the of the country, with all those copycats going on strike now, irrevocable harm.

# jcwong says :
18 June, 2009 [ 03:09 ]

I know!! without a highway chase like  O.J.!! these savage peruvians!!
but sooner or later like fujimori and friends, they all come back.

# Peruvian in Miami says :
18 June, 2009 [ 09:44 ]

Pizango incited people to riot? Reports show that protests in Bagua went on peacefully for several days before its deadly clash two weeks ago. Where were the riots you are talking about?

If you meant the reaction AFTER the June 5th tragedy, then that is something totally different. People would have rioted regardless of what Pizango had to say.

The Garcia administration had plenty of time to avoid the deadly clashes at Bagua, now they face continued protests and possible riots regardless of Pizango or any other indigenous leader.

And the Garcia adminstration knows they messed up. Why do you think Yehude Simon is now looking to resign his position?

# Spin Free Zone says :
18 June, 2009 [ 10:11 ]

Opinionated mass-media influence bias aside, if anyone actually looks at the charges and then at what Pizango had been doing for the past weeks, theres just no way in any fair court you could gather any evidence at all to prove them.

Where are the telephone transcripts of him ordering an assault on police lines? Or the transcripts of him giving the go ahead for the assasination of the PetrolPeru police?
Where has he advocated the overthrow of the Govt.? The one thing they might get him on is his call to fight which he later retracted after being threatened with sedition charges.

Its not that I support or not his cause, his views or opinions. I'm just being honest here.

It would have been interesting to see if any trail came about or whether the charges just fizzled out. If any short of trial got underway, that alone would have been a clear indication of it being unfair.

My apologises to non-thinkers who's zealous rage I might step on.

# wow says :
18 June, 2009 [ 10:54 ]

the natives were against 1090 becuase it would of regulated how much they and thier illegal loggers could cut, they are just as greedy as outside companies

# Mike says :
18 June, 2009 [ 11:23 ]

I think WOW is right.

# Carl says :
18 June, 2009 [ 11:44 ]

Yeah, those dirty indians want all the forest for themselves.

# David N says :
18 June, 2009 [ 16:28 ]

Blockading roads and killing police officers is not a peaceful demonstration.  People interested in peaceful civil disobedience do not arm themselves with spears and knives and kill police officers doing their jobs.  The PNP totally sucks, but they did not deserve to die for following lawful orders. 

Garcia did the right thing and enforced the rule of law.  Mobs roaming the country cannot be tolerated.  Only problem was he caved to easily.  Should have sent in more guns and protected the police.  Now Garcia and the congress are backing down.  Sets a very bad precedent.  The barbarians will now be emboldened to create more havoc and mayhem the very next time a law is passed they don't like.

What I found amusing was one of the ringleaders left the country on a discount air carrier.  He's a loser. 

# David N says :
18 June, 2009 [ 16:30 ]

wow is absolutely right.  The savages couldn't care less about the environment and their 'primitive' way of life.  It's about someone else getting their hands into their piece of pie.

# Carlos says :
18 June, 2009 [ 19:54 ]

Viva Alberto Pizango Carajo!

# Peruvian in Miami says :
18 June, 2009 [ 20:46 ]

David N,

Your description of events and people do not encourage a civil discussion.

# Raul Castros says :
19 June, 2009 [ 15:02 ]

Who are you calling a savage you ignorant pity yankee parasite.

# Buzzito says :
22 June, 2009 [ 22:26 ]

Logging will leave the same results we have in the states and worse yet possible, no management of the land itself.  If I could read Spanish I would be in the thick of the discussion from a different perspective.  Whatever happens, poor management and unsustainable management will have detrimental effects.  I hope someone has their head on straight.  Native American in Quebec gave away (sold 30%) of their land for logging.  It might have been only for the taking of trees.  But, they did it anyway.  Too few care about the way land really needs to be cared for.  God help us.

# R.H. says :
23 June, 2009 [ 11:22 ]

I would like to see some investigation into the alleged misappropriation of funds from AIDESEP that Pizango has been accused of. Fleeing to Nicaragua to party with buddy Ortega sure was convenient.

# Buzzito says :
24 June, 2009 [ 21:37 ]

R.H.,

Have to agree with you there.

# Nora says :
28 June, 2009 [ 05:10 ]

Well, I guess when the party is over is time to go to Nicaragua,where the "other rebels are" but why not Costa Rica or Argentina ? Pizango is not a leader looking after the indigenous people but for his own " political party".  The people of the Amazon need a honest,educated leader to speak for them and the rest of peruvians must demand to the gov.that their rights(indigenous) be recognized .This could be through a division of the Departamento into several areas (Amazonas is after all the largest in Peru) where each one has their own governor (alcalde). The revenue produced by the jungle is probably the largest in peruvian economy which means Alan could use some help to distribute it correctly .

# jacob says :
28 June, 2009 [ 11:39 ]

seriousky guys these people are NOT terrorists or rebels, just protestors.
now this almost over now that pizango left.and by the way david n. sometimes you have great answers, and other times, just please be quiet. respect us peruvians.

# Just protestors says :
29 June, 2009 [ 06:42 ]

Do "just normal" protesters take over the police post, tie up all police, take their guns, beat and kill most of them?   Is that what you would call  Regular old run of the mill protesters? 
Tell that to the widows and fatherless children of the dead peruvian policemen.
Now that he is under protection in Nicaragua he will be Extradited back to Peru to stand trial.  Thats what the last part of the news storys means.

<Peru's Public Prosecutor's Office has started a process against Pizango, who is held responsible for inflamming tensions and provoking the recent Bagua clashes, which caused an official death toll of 24 police officers and 9 civilians.>

# Worldwatch says :
4 July, 2009 [ 23:05 ]

This is Political Dictatorship for the freedom to express

Time expats Peruvians worldwide have their say and they will be protected  and listened too,as their concerns  of their people in their homeland are viewed Globally

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# Carlos Benavides says :
16 July, 2009 [ 04:01 ]

In praise of ... Alberto Pizango

For the last two months, the indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon have been protesting peacefully against the destruction of their lands. An Indian uprising has seen rivers blockaded to prevent oil companies sending barges into the forest in the hope of overturning a new law that lets rip the exploitation of the Amazon forests by loggers, miners, biofuel farmers and oil men. Peru's president, Alan Garcia, is determined to parcel up the forest into blocks for commercial use, encouraged by a free trade deal with America signed three years ago. More than 70% of the forest has been allocated for oil exploration and the consequences for the Amazonian ecosystem, and the people who co-exist with it, have been dire. The protests turned bloody last Friday when clashes with the army and police, as they tried to clear a roadblock, left at least 30 people dead and perhaps many more. The Indian spokesman, Alberto Pizango, who heads a human rights organisation that brings together Amazonian Indian interests from across the country and which has long fought peacefully to protect the forests, has been charged with sedition. Yesterday he sought asylum at the Nicaraguan embassy in Lima. Meanwhile the protests go on. Several of the oil companies involved in Peru have links with Britain, including Perenco - an Anglo-French company with an oil project in the northern Amazon, on land that the campaigning group Survival International says is home to at least two remote forest tribes.
                                              

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/10/editorial-amazon-destruction-alberto-pizango



Viva Alberto Pizango.

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