Paper short abstract:

I analyze the encounters and no-encounters between state and indigenous peoples about the control of the ancestral territory. Likewise, I examine the cultural conflicts by economic model that prioritizes the extractive activities. In this context, I emphasize the role of the Peru´s Consultation Law and its necessary implementation in interaction with others mechanism.

Paper long abstract:

The debate on the control of the existent natural resources in the ancestral territories of the indigenous people in the last two decades, it has gotten more relevance in Peru by the increment of the development of extractive activities for the industries and the approval of new normative frameworks directed to privatize the lands and the natural resources of the indigenous territories. The perception of the Peruvian State with regard to the amazon indigenous people is linked to the perception on the amazon, present in the policies of territorial occupation, "the amazon understands a wide territory of scarce population but with an inexhaustible source of natural resources whose use should contribute to the goals of the integral development of the country and the well-being of the Peruvians". Before the current proposals of strengthen the economic value of the natural resources, the andean and amazon indigenous find as critical point that impacts on their territorial rights, the model economic neoliberal. This model prioritizes the investment of big companies dedicated to the use of the natural resources and puts in risk their territories. From the indigenous vision, there is not an understanding from the State about the cultural value of their territories and necessary legal protection. In this context, I analyze the encounters and no-encounters between state and indigenous peoples about the control of the ancestral territory. Likewise, I examine the cultural conflicts by economic model that prioritizes the extractive activities. In this context, I emphasize the role of the Peru´s Consultation Law and its necessary implementation in interaction with others mechanism.