Rise and fall of Kailasa: How Nithyananda's fictional country 'land trafficked' Bolivia's indigenous people
The United States of Kailasa, led by fugitive Swami Nithyananda, claims to be a sovereign Hindu nation with its own currency ...
Contentious Copper Boom Sparks Existential Mining Crisis in Peru
The nation’s massive copper deposits are key to meeting growing global demand. A battle has emerged over who gets to mine and ...
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Indigenous Peoples of South America
Chasing chupacabras? Find something more extraordinary here. Chasing chupacabras? Find something more extraordinary here. Speakers of rare languages struggled to navigate COVID care Speakers of ...
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Ancient HTLV-1
The ancestors of the Andean indigenous people are believed to have originated in Asia and migrated to South America about 20,000 years ago. This explains their genetic similarities with the ...
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IACHR speaks of extrajudicial executions and a massacre in Peru
The agency demands that those responsible be punished and suggests that the investigations should have “an ethnic-racial focus” since most victims were indigenous people and peasants from the ...