Tag Archives: Peru

Botsing der beschavingen in de Andes

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Gepubliceerd in Het Parool op 9 april 2016

LAS BAMBAS, Peru – Porfirio Gutierrez is niet de inheemse Peruaan zoals je zou verwachten. Hij leest Samuel Huntington en Daniel Goleman, weet zijn argumenten goed te verwoorden, en praat over de golf van het kapitalisme die nu ook zijn afgelegen berggebied heeft bereikt. In tegenstelling tot hem, zijn de meeste andere inwoners van het Peruaanse dorpje Fuerabamba vrijwel allemaal analfabete boeren. Dus toen het Chinese bedrijf MMG, dat de voorraad van 6,9 miljoen ton koper wil exploiteren waar het dorpje boven ligt, hen een contract aanbood tekenden zij zonder goed te begrijpen waarvoor eigenlijk. Ze kregen mooie fleecetruien van het bedrijf en de vertegenwoordiger was erg aardig, dus het zou wel goed zitten.

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Peru’s history of forced sterilizations overshadows vote

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Published in Al Jazeera English on 8th of April 2016

Lima, Peru – Victoria Vigo was in the 32nd week of her third pregnancy when she went to a hospital complaining of pains. She was immediately taken to the operating room and given a C-section. Her baby lived for only a few hours.

Vigo was devastated. But what made it worse was overhearing one of the doctors talk about how she was now being sterilised.

It was 1996 and Vigo had heard rumours of other women being forcibly sterilised, but had never thought it would happen to her.

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Vigilantes of the Andes

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Published on website Contributoria on 1st of May 2015

A young man and woman are interrogated by a group of people. After some questions about their affair, they have to promise that none of this will ever happen again. The wife of the young man steps forward from the group and he has to publicly apologise to her. After that, he and his mistress bend over and are whipped on their backs by an old woman. This public shaming is videotaped and shown via YouTube.

The video shows a tribunal in Cajamarca, in the northern Andean region of Peru, and was made by the local vigilantes, who call themselves the rondas campesinas (farmer patrols). The rondas protect the cities and villages from criminals and use corporal punishment, whose roots are in the traditional indigenous society.

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