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Ucayali · UcayaliThe Court of Appeals of Pucallpa in Peru confirmed the arrest of the former general manager of Primus Capital, Francisco Coeymans, accused by the Public Ministry of a million-dollar scam affecting factoring controlled by financial and wine businessman Raimundo Valenzuela. In a unanimous ruling, the appeal court dismissed the request of the executive, arrested on April 12 in the city of Pucallpa, near the Peruvian jungle. This is after the commer…See the Story
Peruvian justice confirms arrest of Francisco Coeymans, former CEO of Primus Capital for million-dollar fraud - La Tercera
Earthquake · UcayaliEarthquake felt at 1:02 a.m. Source: IGP
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake shook the Ucayali region this morning, reported by the Peruvian Geophysical Institute (IGP) on its website.
The earthquake's epicenter, felt at 1:02 a.m., was located 31 kilometers southwest of Aguaytía, in Padre Abad province, at a depth of 25 kilometers.
According to the IGP, the shaking was felt with a Mercalli intensity of III on the scale in Aguaytía town.
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A magnitude 4.0 earthquake shook the Ucayali region this morning
Ucayali · UcayaliSenamhi: Sierra norte soportará precipitaciones intensas del 28 al 30 de abrilÁncash: profesora es sancionada tras golpear a su alumno con una regla de maderaSujetos desconocidos atacaron la vivienda del vicepresidente de la Asociación Interétnica de Desarrollo de la Selva Peruana (Aidesep) y líder del pueblo Shipibo-Konibo, Miguel Guimaraes Vásquez. Los individuos dañaron puertas, incendiaron ventanas, robaron pertenencias del defensor ambienta…See the Story
Ucayali: Strangers attack environmental defender's home and threaten him with death
Ucayali · UcayaliAs dawn began to break in the Peruvian Amazon on March 5, an oil slick spread across the Puinahua River in the district of the same name, engulfing clumps of palms and reeds in a thick, black layer as it streamed down the current. The sight of the spill prompted a desperate rush among the riverside Manco Cápac community to prevent the oil from contaminating the river they depend on for their survival. “I woke up to chaos,” Kara Fikrig, a biologi…See the Story
Latest Peruvian oil spill cuts Indigenous communities from life-giving river
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Palm Oil · UcayaliThe US food and drink giant PepsiCo has been linked through its supply chain to Amazon deforestation and the invasion of Indigenous lands in Peru, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ), Mongabay and Peruvian outlet Ojo Público can reveal. For at least three years, PepsiCo’s Peruvian suppliers have been sourcing palm oil from deforested territory claimed by the Shipibo-Konibo people in Ucayali, eastern Peru. The company, which manufacture…See the Story
Snack giant PepsiCo sourced palm oil from razed Indigenous land – investigation
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Amazon · UcayaliA Peruvian court on Thursday imposed near three-decade sentences on five men who were being retried for the murders of four Indigenous Amazon land defenders who had crossed swords with illegal loggers.The four leaders of the Ashaninka people -- a group from a remote area along the border between Brazil and Peru -- were killed in front of members of their community on September 1, 2014.Edwin Chota, Jorge Rios, Leoncio Quintisima and Francisco Pin…See the Story
Peru court sentences killers of Indigenous land defenders
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Ucayali · UcayaliBrussels (Belgium), 10/04/2024.- UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese, during a press conference ahead of a EU Parliament plenary session in Brussels, Belgium, 10 April 2024. (B鬧ica, Francia, Bruselas) EFE/EPA/OLIVIER HOSLET
Fotógrafo: OLIVIER HOSLET El Poder Judicial sentenció a 28 años y 3 meses de cárcel a los empresarios madereros Hugo Soria Flores y José Estrada Huayta —…See the Story
Saweto case: PJ handed down 28 years and 3 months in prison for those involved in the murder of four indigenous leaders
Ucayali · UcayaliThey recover bodies of petty officers and workers of the CORAH project The bodies of the three people who had been missing since last Saturday in the Tamaya River, after the collision of two boats, in the town center Charasmana, district of Masisea, in the province of Callería, Ucayali region. A group of divers from the Navy, based in Iquitos, began searching the disaster area, in order to find the rest of the missing, identified as petty office…See the Story
