Environmental activist Hipólito Quispe Huamán was shot and killed Saturday night in the Madre de Dios region of southeastern Peru, in what authorities suspect was a targeted attack linked to his work defending the Amazon rainforest, AFP reports. Quispe Huamán was driving along the Interoceanic Highway when he was gunned down, according to local prosecutors. […]
It’s Chico Mendes all over again.
As you say, and the fact that there is a list of environmental killings makes it even worst. So many more activists have been killed this century than the previous one, and we’re just 25 year into it.