By EDWAR ENRIQUE ESCALANTE.
After his remarkable work through The Mystery of Capital, where his main thesis was the weakness of the property rights as the main cause for people to be poor and excluded from capitalism benefits around the world. Hernando de Soto has produced a hard challenge for the collective society lovers one more time. With no doubt the ideas described by De Soto were a stab for the left that thought to see a genesis of socialism in the Andean and Amazonian communities as the key engine to create a socialist regime in Peru and Latin America.
Why does capitalism triumph in the West and fails everywhere else? That was the question he tried to answer. The celebrated book by De Soto explained that poor people create business, get [Continue reading...]

NEW YORK TIMES – CARACAS, Venezuela — Peru’s Congress on Thursday overturned two decrees by President Alan García that were aimed at opening large areas of the Peruvian Amazon to logging, dams and oil drilling but set off protests by indigenous groups this month in which dozens died.

An Ashaninka indigenous woman cooked in the main road linking the central jungle to Lima.

The move appeared to ease tensions with the indigenous groups, which had continued with their protests and road blockades in parts of Peru despite Congress’s decision to suspend the decrees last month. After the vote on Thursday, however, some indigenous leaders said they would lift the scattered blockades and halt the protests.
“Today is a historic day for all indigenous people and for the nation of Peru,” said Daysi [Continue reading...]

This afternoon the Peruvian Congress, following a recommendation issued by the Government, repealed Legislative Decrees 1090 and 1064, which amended the Forestry and Wildlife Act and the Legal Regime for Agricultural Lands, respectively.
These were the decrees that had been strongly rejected by the indigenous inhabitants of the Amazon and which had led to the tense situation between these inhabitants and members of the Armed Forces.
At least 34 people died in bloody clashes in Northern Peru between police and indigenous peoples, after police moved in to break up strikes and blockades started in April by indigenous leaders in protests against the aforementioned decrees.
According to indigenous representatives, said decrees had violated their right to be consulted, as set down in Agreement 169 of the International Labor Organization (ILO).
Today’s proposal was approved with [Continue reading...]

In a nationally-televised speech on Wednesday evening, President Alan Garcia Perez called for peace and reconciliation among Peruvians so as to achieve the country’s main goals, such as saving Peru from the global crisis and promoting more development projects.The Peruvian leader said that it is the time to evaluate and acknowledge a series of mistakes and exaggerations, such as the fact that indigenous communities were not consulted about the controversial Legislative Decrees.
He added that, in an attempt to enforce and uphold the law by re-opening blocked roads and oil pipeline pumping stations in the Amazonas region, the government did not anticipate that there were criminals hidden among the natives.
In addition, President Garcia backed Prime Minister Yehude Simon’s decision to go back to the beginning and revoke legislative decrees 1090 and 1064 [Continue reading...]