Extractivism in the Peruvian Amazon: tension and relationship between the State and the Native Peoples

Abstract

     In the following opuscule, I make it known that the territory of indigenous peoples has been affected by extractivism, which is a structural feature of capitalism, that is, in fact, justified by the Peruvian State, without considering the socio-environmental and socio-ecological impact on the Amazonian territories. Extractivism is contemporaneously used by the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) of the Peruvian State, which also keeps a thread of relationship between the protests in the Peruvian Amazon produced at the beginning of this new millennium, and the confederations in the Peruvian Amazon being the base of indigenous peoples to claim, and to be heard, their perspective, also regarding the “good living". In this way, it is intended to determine with this study, through the qualitative and anachronistic method, based on referential Amazon studies, that the struggles of indigenous peoples are legal and environmental and what happens due to the shock and epistemological tension of the territory and "good living" between the State and indigenous peoples. Thus, identifying that the ancestral knowledge of indigenous peoples, products of their worldview, such as the Asháninkas case, is particularly effective against the socio-environmental impacts that arise in their territories. In short, I adduce the relevance of this manifesto in times where climate change is already a truth witnessed by the extractive and unsustainable model of capitalism.