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Added on the 28/01/2021 13:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Peruvian police officers in the capital Lima board a plane bound for the northern border with Ecuador, after Peru put the border under a state of emergency following the security crisis that erupted in the neighboring country. Ecuador's president has given orders to "neutralize" criminal gangs after gunmen stormed and opened fire in a TV studio, as bandits threatened random executions on a second day of terror in the country. IMAGES
Hollywood actress and UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie visited Venezuelan migrants and refugees who are staying in Tumbes, on the border between Peru and Ecuador.
Andean foreign, interior and defense ministers take a family photo in Lima, ahead of an emergency meeting organized to define joint actions against transnational crime, amid the escalating security crisis in Ecuador. IMAGES
South American leaders arrive at the Amazon summit in Belem to set out bold solutions to save the damaged Amazon the world's biggest rainforest. IMAGES
Lima, Sep 30 (EFE).- To protect some 35 million hectares of Amazon rainforest, the main indigenous organizations of Ecuador and Peru launched Thursday their own alternative development plan that seeks to leave oil and gas underground.The area, called by the natives as Cuencas Sagradas or Sacred Basins, comprises a wide water network originating in the glaciers of the Andes of Ecuador and Peru.The water descends to form innumerable rivers, feeding the Amazon, which hosts the most biodiverse ecosystems in the world and regulates the climate of the entire planet. (Camera: JUAN PALOMINO).SHOT LIST: INDIGENOUS ORGANIZATIONS OF PERU AND ECUADOR PRESENT PLAN TO PROTECT THE AMAZON RAINFOREST IN LIMA, PERU.