The indigenous people were violently displaced from the road they were occupying and 34 people died as a result. There are still no people charged for these crimes. But these weren’t the only consequences of one of the most complex events registered during Alan Garcia’s administration.

Native communities continue resisting extractivist projects that are threatening one of the richest areas in the world in terms of biodiversity.

“Now they are trying to silence the jungle”, said Carlos Flores, the host of La Voz de Bagua, in an interview broadcasted by Mas Voces’s website.

The radio was closed for fourteen months after the massacre and in August last year, the authorities allowed it to resume their work.

However, the Transport and Communications Ministry has systematically presented obstacles and applied abusive fines to prevent the radio from working.

Flores said that there are other six radios in the region suffering similar attacks, to the point that they have been accused of allegedly “stealing radio-electric spectrum.”

“This is an attack to freedom of speech”, concludes the journalist, who also denounced a governmental plan to grant lands to mining companies, including repressive policies aimed at indigenous people and the communication media that broadcast their claims.

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