Alberto Pizango

An indigenous federation opposed to a recently approved plan for oil drilling in the Peruvian Amazon said on Friday that native communities will physically block any attempt by oil companies to operate on their lands. Last week the Peruvian government gave the green light for Santiago-based GeoPark Ltd.

Their appointed leader, the quietly charismatic Alberto Pizango, set about trying to get an intransigent government to repeal the laws. To no avail. There were mass mobilizations of indigenous people and road blocks that threatened the national economy. In Congress, parliamentarians who were about to ...

At the vortex of this mass movement is Alberto Pizango, a Peruvian Indian who attended university, became a teacher and then leader of Native rights' groups, including the Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Rainforest (AIDESEP). As the film's protagonist Pizango makes a ...

We see the indigenous leader mimic bird calls, paddle a canoe and quip about Tarzan. We see him climb out of a window to escape arrest. We see him return from exile to a crowd shouting “murderer”. If Pizango is the hero, the villain is Alan Garcia, president of Peru at the time. In his eagerness to attract ...

Brandenburg and Orzel's film is an activist documentary, and at its center is Alberto Pizango, a genuinely magnetic revolutionary who organizes and leads the Peruvian Amazonians against President Alan Garcia, the we see in television footage encouraging American corporations to come and invest in ...

Peruvian Indigenous leader Alberto Pizango is the subject of a new, award winning documentary about an Indigenous uprising against free trade and globalization. ... “When Two Worlds Collide” tells the story of Alberto Pizango, an Indigenous leader who became one of the most wanted men in Peru.

Amongst those charged is Alberto Pizango, the president of Peru's Amazon Indian Organization AIDESEP. The prosecution has called for Pizango to be imprisoned for life for “inciting violence”. Since the clashes, several of the government's controversial decrees have been repealed. In 2011, Peru's ...

A Peruvian indigenous leader who was detained on Wednesday as he returned from almost a year in exile in Nicaragua has been freed on bail. A judge told Alberto Pizango he would still have to face charges of sedition and conspiracy at his upcoming trial. He is accused of inciting protests against ...