https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/23/peru-indigenous-protections-bill
Amid the political chaos following the ousting of Peru’s President Pedro Castillo, lawmakers in the country’s congress are quietly trying to pass a bill into law that would strip “uncontacted” Indigenous people of protection and dismantle existing reserves created for them. (..) The proposal, put forward by Jorge Morante, a little-known lawmaker, flies in the face of abundant documentary evidence of the existence of up to 25 isolated groups living in the country’s Amazon rainforest, which is second in size only to Brazil’s.
