The Amazon Basin Indigenous Peoples Organization (COICA) with our worldview, diversity of languages, history, cultures, spirituality, territory, economy, have existed since before recorded time. We have adopted different forms of organization and identity under the framework of the nation states which have established laws and regulations according to their own interests, not recognizing the ancestral rights of the first inhabitants of the amazon region.
As the recession deepens in the Western countries, many of them are resorting to protectionism. This adds to the problems in developing countries, which are already increasingly facing the effects of the global economic turmoil.
