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taught to be ashamed of their own people. Later on, sterilization was exchanged for food on reservations where there was no food. These are the hard truths and the people of the South American rainforest will fare no better in dealing with this form of criminal mentality. The message is clear, if we want it, we're taking it. Don't
get in our way or you'll be sorry.

Amazon Watch and E-Tech International are two of the nonprofit groups that have been watching the development of the rainforest in Peru and both groups have done excellent jobs of recording the events. Conflicts of interest and insider deals abound, many of which circle right back to the Texas/White House oil scions. Some of the tactics used when gaining access to fragile ecosystems are the deliberate spread of missionaries and alcohol in the South American rainforest in order to cajole and guilt the Natives into giving up their lands, very much like what happened to the Native Peoples of the United States. Diseases transmitted to these isolated cultures, some by careless accident or fate and some by design, are just another unfortunate side effect of evolution.

Argentinean owned Pluspetrol is one of the co-owners of Camisea Natural Gas Project which has been responsible for this stage of the plan, in defiance of international law regarding contacting Native Peoples. There have been violations of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights as well. All of which leads to extreme poverty for the Native Peoples, and the loss of their ancestral lands, destruction of the rainforest, the animals, and the earth. Broken oil pipes have already poisoned the water supply, the food supply, and the people.
These pipes were put into place carelessly and rapidly, ignoring the codes set to regulate the building up of fragile areas. And who's going to stop them? Who is there to cry foul and demand that the corporations do the right thing? Some Native groups and the nonprofits mentioned above have been publicly recording the events, to no avail.

All this horrific bloodletting now exists in the rainforest and all for the sake of money. The earth is the sustainer of us all, yet we stand back and watch while multinational corporations are buying it up and destroying it. They rape the earth and pillage the natural resources. Our children and grandchildren will inherit lifeless holes gouged deep into the earth and where will they find food and water?

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