San Felipe School has been declared in quarantine due to the AH1N1 flu epidemia. Yes, some of our school friends traveled abroad and might have brought the virus here. So by now we reamin at home. We'll try to post some things thought. Right now situation is our country, Peru, is quite turbulent. There have been several political actions that have come now into a huge conflict with native communities from our jungle. You'll see, there are some laws that were planned to be... Protests by indigenous communities over oil drilling and mining in the Peruvian Amazon region turned violent Friday, leaving at least 13 people dead in clashes with police and subsequent rioting. According to local officials, nine police and four Indians were killed in an early-morning confrontation on a road between Jaen and Bagua in northeast Peru and the protests that followed. The Bagua public defender's office said another 45 people were wounded. Violence continued throughout much of the day. Rioters sacked city offices, the local headquarters of President Alan Garcia's political party and 50 stores. Some reports said the death toll was even higher. One said protesters were holding 38 police hostage and threatening to kill them unless police withdrew. The Health Ministry said it was sending emergency teams of doctors and paramedics to the area, raising fears that the casualty tolls were far higher than officially reported. Tensions between the indigenous communities and the government have been boiling since early April, when tribal members began protesting Garcia's granting of mineral development rights to foreign companies. Half a dozen indigenous communities claim the jungle as their ancestral lands. The picture shows Alberto Pizango, leader of native jungle communities. He attends a news conference in Lima, Friday, June 5, 2009. Indians opposed to oil and gas exploration on their lands battled police in Peru's remote Amazon on Friday, with authorities reporting eight police officers killed and protest leaders claiming 22 Indian deaths. profile/diary/class/colegio-cooperativo-san-felipe/profile/our-diary/diary/select_class/33/hotstuff/you\ll-never-believe-us-but//16/