QUILLABAMBA, Peru — On June 5, in the dense Amazonian slopes of Peru’s southern Andes, a group of rainforest natives from the sleepy Machiguenga Indian village of Andioshiari dug up a natural gas pipeline and threatened to explode it. The “social action” was part of an effort to force Peru’s Congress to roll back a set of land reforms, instituted through executive order by Peruvian President Alan Garcia.

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In Peru, Rainforest Natives Block Land Decrees