When Two Worlds Collide – people vs corporate greed
When Two Worlds Collide – people vs corporate greed
By Vanessa Baird
In 2007 Peru’s President, Alan Garcia, declared his country open to foreign corporations for extraction of its natural resources – mineral, gas, oil, timber.
And within the first few minutes of When Two Worlds Collide, a tense documentary directed by Heidi Brandenburg and Mathew Orzel, we see Garcia courting US capital and signing a free trade agreement with President Bush.
What Garcia did not reckon on, however, was the clarity and strength of the resistance that would come from the indigenous communities of the Peruvian Amazon. The people who, as this film shows, are so often dismissed by the metropolitan elite as ‘primitive’, ‘savage’ or in Garcia’s words ‘obstacles to progress’; and ‘dogs in the manger’.
These people soon cottoned on to the fact that the new laws passed by the Garcia administration to make their ancestral lands ‘open to business’, without consulting them, were unconstitutional and contrary to international accords (ILO 169, chiefly.)
More:
https://newint.org/blog/2016/09/21/when-two-worlds-collide/
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(Bagua Massacre, Pres. Garcia also brought in helicopter gun ships to fire on the citizens)
Leader, Alberto Pizango
