In Peru, the indigenous people still suffer greatly from governmental (and business) intrusion into their lands. Brother Paul McAuley, one of the De La Salle Brothers, has been working to protect the rights of the indigenous people for years, but now, because of such work, the Peruvian government wants to expel him and send him back to the UK, from whence he came. As the BBC reports:
For the last decade he has worked with indigenous groups in Peru’s vast Amazon region, where the current government has eased access for oil and gas companies.
Brother Paul says he teaches native Peruvians their environmental and human rights, the government in Lima accuses him of political agitation against the Peruvian state.
Cabinet chief Javier Velasquez said that Brother Paul was being expelled because the government could not “accept that foreigners can continue furtively to stir up people to shatter democratic values.”
I am sure some of the indigenous people feel the same about the current government in Peru.
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