Published on Saturday August 18, 2007 .
MNN. Thursday, August 16, 2007
Brothers, Sisters, Friends and Allies, Your Help is needed;
Peru Earthquake A large delegation of Indigenous people of Peru, are at the “1st International Congress of the Anti-Imperialist Indigenous Peoples of the Americas” in Venezuela who cannot go home. They can’t get in touch with their families. There are massive black outs, fires and so far over 400 people are dead. It was 7.9 on the Richter scale and the epicenter was in the ocean off Lima. The earth moved in waves into the interior. 90% of the people of Peru are Indigenous of many different nations. Millions of our people are affected. The media has not been able to go in directly to get information and presently rely on third hand information.
The victims are primarily Indigenous people who live around the epicenter. The Ministry of Indigenous Affairs in Venezuela, have provided the Peruvian delegates with cell phones but they still can’t get through because everything is down.
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