Last June, Cultural Survival and Global Response members sent letters to the Peruvian government protesting its violent repression of Indigenous Peoples in the northern Amazon. The conflict, centered in the town of Bagua, left 34 people dead and over 200 people injured. The Indigenous protests ultimately convinced the Peruvian Congress to repeal decrees that would open Peru’s Amazonian region to unfettered exploitation by mining, oil, and logging companies.