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The Guardian - US
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Dan Collyns in Lima

Amazon tourists and Peruvians held on boat released by Indigenous protesters

Foreign and Peruvian travellers wait in the boat where they were detained at the Cuninico community in Loreto, north of Peru, on Friday.
Foreign and Peruvian travellers wait in the boat where they were detained at the Cuninico community in Loreto, north of Peru, on Friday. Photograph: Angela Ramirez/AFP/Getty Images

Indigenous protesters have released more than 100 tourists and local people who were held on a boat for more than a day in an attempt to force the Peruvian government to act over oil spills in the Amazon region where they live.

The Indigenous Kukama had held a boatload of Peruvians and foreign tourists – including US and European citizens and at least three British nationals – since Thursday in Peru’s largest Amazon region, Loreto.

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