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Indigenous communities face violence at the hands of mining companies. Murders under investigation by the Indigenous Advisory Mission.

The International Association of Indigenous Press(AIPIN) met October 13-24, 1993.

The establishment of a Pan-American highway through the rain forest to connect Colombia and Panama(Plan Pacifico) threatens extreme ecological damage. Afro-Colombian and indigenous communities are banding together to oppose the plan.

Luis Donaldo Colosio, a candidate of the Revolutionary Institutional Party, was assassinated.

Victor Hugo Cardenas election as vice-president of Bolivia on June 7, 1993 inspires hope in the indigenous populations.

Brazil has prohibited logging activities in Arawete, Apyterewa, Trinchera Bacaja lands in the Brazilian Amazon.

Violence continues to rage in Chiapas , though a dialogue between the Mexican government and the Zapatistas.

Indigenous communities, some linked to the Zapatista movement, have been targeted for killings and kidnappings.

CONIC reaffirms its policies of denouncing human rights violations and support the people of Chiapas who have been the victims of violence.

CONAIE met in Ecuador to protest economic measures that threaten indigenous communities.

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