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ICT - Latin Indigenous http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/global/latin RSS Feed for ICT - Global - Latin Indigenous en-us Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT Indigenous leader confronts Chevron http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/global/latin/87465362.html Emergildo Criollo traveled to California recently from his indigenous village in Ecuador to the home of Chevron’s new CEO John Watson and then to a meeting with state lawmakers, demanding that the oil giant Chevron “… take responsibility for their actions and clean up our rivers and forests – our homes.” Indigenous plan of action for climate change summit http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/global/latin/85488742.html To “defeat the resistance of the contaminating countries” was the objective of indigenous leaders from 13 Latin American countries who prepared a plan of action recently for the upcoming Climate Change Summit in Mexico. Pesticide exposure deprives Yaqui girls of breastfeeding – ever http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/global/latin/85049497.html SONORA VALLEY, Mexico – The problems began ominously with the Yaqui pueblo peoples who accepted pesticide practices in the 1950s so-called Green Revolution. Indigenous languages added to new Ecuadorian constitution http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/global/latin/27272759.html QUITO, Ecuador – Ecuador could soon become the fourth country in the Western Hemisphere to have indigenous languages included in the list of the nation’s official languages.