2.2.3 Rights and Interests on Territorial Resources within Globalization

Although significant progresses have taken place in the region regarding the acknowledgement to our rights, as well in the capacity strengthening of the organizations and peoples to influence over its prevalence and its in-depth ness, it is also necessary to consider the Amazon and specially to take into account that are territories are the stage were most conflicts develop. Oil, natural gas, minerals, forests, genetic resources and the ancestral knowledge attract diverse interests, for whom the recognized rights, represent a great limitation.

These interests create diverse forms of pressures to minimize the recognized rights. Through legal and constitutional reforms, they revert recognized rights, such as in the case of Peru, over the interest to free our lands to the market or to facilitate the exploitation of forestry resources. Through rulings and procedures that contradict the spirit of recognized rights, such as is the case of Bolivia in the drainage and legalization of the TCO, or as in the application of the right to previous consultations, as is the case of all the countries in the region. Another generalized mechanism, has been the use of power to obstruct legally founded processes that have taken place in our “favor”, such as is the case of the Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous Land in Roriama, Brazil. Or finally, through militarization, as is the threat to the Sarayacu Kichwa peoples of Ecuador, as well as in our territories in Colombia.