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Tension roils Peru after deadly Amazon clashes

Source: The Globe & Mail

Lima : Peru | 5 months ago

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49PM EDT I ndigenous protesters and Peru's army refused to back down and a truce looked distant Saturday, after two battles in the Amazon jungle killed some 50 people in the worst crisis of President Alan Garcia's term.

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