Achuar

The Achuar are an Amazonian People located on either side of the border in between Ecuador and Peru. The name Achuar means “the people of the Aguaje Palm“.

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Indigenous Peoples in Ecuador

A Message of Solidarity from the Achuar to Canada

Apr 11, 2013 • “I am very concerned I can’t stand alone in defense of my people. We must stand together in solidarity.”... Read More

Ecuador Launches Oil Auction Amid Indigenous Protests

Dec 11, 2012 • On Wednesday November 28, 2012, Ecuador began an international licensing round for 13 oil blocks – nearly ten million... Read More

Good Riddance! Canadian oil company announces withdrawal from Achuar territory

Sep 14, 2012 • The Achuar Peoples have a won a major victory in their eight-year struggle against a Canadian oil company in... Read More

Achuar Leaders In Canada To Confront Talisman Energy, Build Alliances

Apr 25, 2012 • A group of Achuar delegates are in Canada this week to confront the Canadian oil company, Talisman Energy, for... Read More

The True Story of Chevron’s Ecuador Disaster

Feb 9, 2012 • Over three decades of oil drilling in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Chevron dumped more than 18 billion gallons of toxic... Read More

Ecuador’s Indigenous movement Mobilizes for the Water

Sep 28, 2009 • A National, inclusive, non-discriminatory and peaceful effort, the “Mobilization to defend the Water” (Movilización Nacional para defender el Agua)... Read More

Indigenous Communities Angered by Peru Environment Minister

Jul 24, 2009 • Indigenous communities from the Peruvian Amazon are angry over recent comments from Peru’s environment minister that Pluspetrol’s Lote 8... Read More

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