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14 traditional healers, all from the Shawi ethnic group, were murdered brutally in separate incidents over the last 20 months around Balsapuerto, a small river port in Peru's vast Amazon region on its northern border with Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil, allegedly at the behest of a local mayor. The mayor, who is an evangelical Christian, ordered the killings on hearing that the shamans planned to form an association. Until now the death of 14 curanderos who are the depositaries of Amazon knowledge wasn't worth the attention of the press. No arrests have been made over the deaths. Read More & Act Now!

Wirikuta es un territorio sagrado rico en peyote, un cactus de uso tradicional por sus propiedades psicoactivas, situado en el Altiplano de San Luis Potosí, México, habitado por la comunidad huichol. El gobierno mexicano ha cedido por lo menos 22 concesiones de extracción de minerales a la empresa canadiense First Majestic Silver Corporation, la mayoría de las cuales afectan directamente el área sagrada de Wirikuta.  Mas Información aquí