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

Indian leaders are attacked for speaking out against government encroachments onto their land.

Carlos Orlando Lincoman, a member of the central council which represents 137 communities of Huilliche people discusses the encroachment of non-indigenous people on land that belongs to the Indigenous groups.

Copy of a letter from the Ava-Guarani community to the President of the World Bank.

The Sumo have appealed to the Nicaraguan government to prevent Korean logging activities on their land. This has not proved fruitful, which may lead the Sumo to seek demarcation.

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

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

The Aymaras of San Andrés de Machaca in Bolivia, frustrated with politcal parties' manipulation of their leaders, dissolved the campesino union and replaced it with a traditonal Ayllu Federation.