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As When Two Worlds Collide shows, Peru stokes the volatility of the
context created by this economic agenda by dealing with anti-extraction
protests as threats to national security. Protesters have become internal
enemies, described by sectors of the government as green terrorists.
Protests are tackled with legal responses that suspend constitutional
rights within an area, acts that were passed to expedite the war against
Sendero Luminoso, otherwise known as Shining Path, a Communist
militant group in the country.

The leaders of these protests are being arrested and tried for crimes of
rebellion and sedition, and are also pressured by legal and illegal private
interests. In 2015, Global Witness reported that nine activists, including
seven indigenous activists, were killed in Peru that year amid disputes
over extraction sites.

As I have previously written, my indigenous Ashaninka collaborators in

the Peruvian Amazon are living in a continuum of violence that links
Peru’s internal war and the imposition of extractive activity in its wake. In
that piece I cited an Ashaninka man who compared his fear of the Shining
Path, to his fear of extractivism:

I used to be scared of the Shining Path killing my family and taking my