We can not disentangle the protest of the native populations and the tragic events of Bagua, which has now claimed the lives of villagers and police, presidential speech outlined in the manifesto "The gardener's dog syndrome."
recall some passages from Alan García article published by El Comercio on 28 October 2007 (emphasis added):
"Millions of hectares wood that are idle, millions of hec-tares communities and associations that have not farmed or cultivated, ad-plus hundreds of mineral deposits that can not work and millions of hectares of sea to not ever enter or mariculture production. "
" For there to secure property investment is required [the land], but we have fallen into the deception of delivering small lots of land to poor families who do not have a penny to invest ... "
" But demagogy and deception say that such land can not be touched because they are sacred and that community organization is the organization's original ... Peru. "
"This is a case that is found throughout Peru, vacant land because the owner has no training or financial resources, so your property is apparent. That same land sold in large lots that technology would also benefit the commoner. "
" .. here we discuss whether the technique is still mining destroys the environment, which is a subject of the last century destroyed it clear that before and environmental problems of today are basically mine yesterday, but today the mines are living with the cities without any problems ... "
" .. the old communist-capitalist nineteenth century disguised protectionism in the twentieth century and change shirt again in the XXI century to be an environmentalist. "
" ... there are real peasant communities, but also artificial communities that have 200 thousand hectares in the paper but only agriculturally used 10 000 hectares and the others are idle property of 'dead hand', while its inhabitants live in extreme poverty and waiting for the state to take all the help rather than to value its hills and land, renting them, trading them because if they are unproductive for them, it would be productive with a high level of investment or expertise to bring a new buyer. "
With President Garcia is clearly the root of the problem: Who should have the natural resources of the country that, constitutionally, is the entire nation? The large investment. Who should not have them? Communities. Why? Because they have neither education nor adequate financial resources. And since they have no education or economics, property rights are not complete, is apparent.
legislative decrees June 2008 is the normative expression of this discourse, which is clearly excluded the peasant and native Amazonian populations. The reaction of these people is against the violation of their rights over their lands and territories. Formal channels to meet the demand that these laws are changed unfortunately decrees have not worked and instead has shown that the roundtables have served to 'rock' to the people, corrupting what should be a legitimate method of trading. No wonder, then, have used other means, such as demonstrations and road footage: experience has shown that only the government crackdown and the Congress are paying attention. With the things, the primary responsibility for these demonstrations are the government and Congress.
Nor is it surprising that, despite these protests is the 'wave', they are radicalized until, unfortunately, the current situation that has claimed the lives of both people-citizens-Amazon as the police, citizens also. Who is the primary responsibility? Of political decision makers: the government and Congress.
What to do? One way is to negotiate for real. With the incident, the Executive and Congress have lost legitimacy as interlocutors. The only public institution with legitimacy is the Ombudsman, which should take the initiative and call for such negotiations with representatives of the people Amazon. They should give two major makers of the drama we are living, the President of the Council of Ministers, Yehude Simons, and the Minister of Interior, Mercedes Cabanillas.
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