LAMMP - Latin American Mining Monitoring Programme

A Yanomami Indian shaman from the Brazilian Amazon has denounced the violence in Peru during a recent visit to London invited by Survival International.

ANOTHER DEFENDER OF THE PACHAMAMA ATTACKED BY SUPPORTERS OF THE MINING COMPANIES

On Wednesday 22^th April 2009, at about 7 p.m., Rosa Etelvina Misacango Chuñir, aged 49, was attacked both verbally and physically at her home in Barrio 13 de Abril, Molleturo Parish. A member of the Front of Women Defenders of the Pachamama, she has become yet another victim of the violence generated in the communities by the presence of transnational mining companies.