Lima, Peru | Saturday 04 July 2009 19:13 | | |

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Over the next two years, the European Union (EU) will further strengthen cooperation against drug trafficking in Peru, said the representative of the European Commission in Peru, Francisco Acosta.
The Peruvian Ombudsman's report, sent to the Chancellery today, found that none civil neither Amazonian indigenous people disappeared on the events occurred in Bagua (Amazonas) on June 5th and 6th.
The riots registered this morning in several areas of Lima due to the transport strike called by various left-sector unions has left at the moment more than 100 arrested protesters, according to Julio Talledo, a public affairs prosecutor for Peru's Ministry of Interior.
Days after Peru overturned two controversial land laws, demonstrations still continue, on issues like wages, mining and hydroelectric projects.
The representative of Doe Run Peru's employees, Alfredo Huarica, announced that they have decided to lift their strike, (for 30 days) after the meeting they had with an executive committee.
Peru's Prime Minister, Yehude Simon, said today that local radio station La Voz (in Bagua) was closed due to legal matters only, and ruled out any governmental interference on freedom of press.
Peru's Agriculture Minister, Carlos Leyton arrived in Andahuaylas today, heading an executive committee intended to talk with local leaders and trying to solve their indefinite strike.
In order to prevent Monterrico Metals (Majaz) company from escaping from its responsibility for the torture of 29 Ayabaca communards (in Northern Peru), British justice ordered their assets (amounting to US $11.7million dollars) to be frozen.
The Public Prosecutor's office issued an arrest warrant for the Amazonian native leader Santiago Manuin, natives' chief of 5 basins in Santa Maria de Nieva.
The United Nations special rapporteur on human rights and fundamental rights of indigenous peoples, James J. Lenoir Anaya, will arrive in Lima tomorrow (Tuesday).
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