According to Pagina Siete, the San Jose de Uchupiamonas community issued a statement that “points to the Mining Administrative Jurisdictional Authority (AJAM) and the National Service of Protected Areas (Sernap) for having violated the rights of the population and granting concessions within the Madidi protected area.”
Through a statement, the Uchupiamona indigenous people rejected the entry of mining cooperatives into the Uchupiamona Community Land of Origin (TCO). The resolution indicates that the population will defend its territory and "in case of violence" the only person responsible will be the state, it is stated.
“We have shown that Ajam has passed over our existence, our TCO and the Madidi protected area, affecting the Tuichi river, and has violated all our rights in complicity with Sernap, having granted mining concessions, with the grid at 15 mining cooperatives, that even two of them are already in the final stage of the contract and that these cooperatives are already entering to take possession of these concessions ”, warns the document.
Among the resolutions, the indigenous population rejects the entry of cooperatives. In the second point, it is rejected that these concessions "promote the division of our territory (...)".
The last point warns that “the Uchupiamona nation before the subjugation of its territory, ignoring our existence, will ultimately defend its territory using its ancestral defense methods, and in case of violence, the only person responsible will be the State and the authorities that arbitrarily authorize the invasion of our territory ”, it concludes.”
“Weeks ago, park rangers warned about the authorization of mining concessions in the Madidi protected area.”
You can view the signed statement in its entirety here.