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2004-09-03 04:00:00 PDT Tiguino, Ecuador-- Penti Baihua, a community leader of the Huaorani Indians, knew there was more to the massacre of 26 members of a rival Amazon tribe than mere revenge. In ...

At the time, the isolated tribes’ affairs were housed with the ministry’s Office for the Advancement of Indigenous Tribes in Voluntary Isolation. But the office did not have a clear public policy.

2003-12-12 04:00:00 PDT Pumpuentsa, Ecuador-- As international energy companies move into the Amazon basin to tap some of the world's last untouched oil and natural gas reserves, more and more of ...

The Cofan Indians of Ecuador manage six times the land they controlled in the early 1990s, and much of the credit goes to an American they call the Gringo Chief.

Indigenous tribe representatives from the Amazon in Ecuador joined an anti-austerity demonstration in Quito on Friday, as hopes for talks between protest leaders and the government dimmed ...

Police used gas and batons to keep protesters away from the building on Thursday. One tribe member was hurt in the protests, the local Red Cross said. A vote on the bill is expected in Congress ...

YAWEPARE, Ecuador – An oil pipeline runs through this village to a Chinese rig at the end of the road. At night, when the rig is pumping, the pipeline is too hot to touch, but villagers say t… ...