James Anaya, the UN’s Special Rapporteur for Indigenous People, said that there is no evidence to support claims of genocide during the clashes between Peruvian police and indigenous protestors earlier this month. He announced his findings at a Friday press conference after a three day information gathering trip to the country.

On Friday 5th June, protests against government measures to open resources in the Peruvian Amazon to foreign businesses descended into deadly violence. The confrontation, near the town of Bagua Grande, 870 miles north of the capital, Lima, culminated in the deaths of police officers and protesters alike. Indigenous groups and opposition politicians are now calling for the resignation of the president.

Human rights lawyers have accused Peru’s government of a cover-up, after at least fifty people were killed in clashes between indigenous people and police. The indigenous groups were protesting against laws which allow foreign companies to exploit natural resources in what they consider to be their land.

Permission has been granted to Petrolifera, a Canadian mining company, to begin excavations for oil in the Peruvian Amazon. Indigenous protection groups have expressed their concern for the survival of the Cacataibo tribe, an untouched community that could suffer catastrophically from the decision.

In a pair of stilettos that would turn Sarah Jessica Parker green with envy, the tiny figure of Charo Bogarín struts onto the stage, wearing a dress made of ruffles and false plaits down to her waist. The visual impact is stunning, and only enhanced when the gamine starts singing.

The government of the northern Argentine province of Chaco announced yesterday that all employees of the humanitarian aid plan known as ‘Paicha’ (Programme for Assistance in Chaco’s Impenetrable Region) will be removed from their duties following accusations of sexual abuse.

A year ago I visited the northern Argentine province of Chaco to report on the death of Rosa Molina. The 56-year-old was the fifteenth Toba person to die of malnutrition in the province in the space of four months. She weighed just 24kg when she died. Despite her death making international headlines, and raising embarrassing questions for then-president Néstor Kirchner’s government, little has been done to improve the situation, which indirectly led to her death.

Just 15km from the Iguazú Falls in Misiones lies Fortín Mbororé, a Guaraní settlement of 800 people. As I walk into the community from the main road, along a red dirt track, I feel I couldn’t be further away from the waterfalls and the slick circus of tours that go with them.

Epic black and white landscapes dominate the pristine white walls of photographer Lucio Boschi’s apartment. “Monochrome leaves more room for the imagination, and I like that,” he says. As he welcomes me into this meditative space I notice that both he and his wife are also wearing black and white.

A crowd of indigenous children run laughing through the mud streets of Derqui village, two hours outside Buenos Aires. They scuffle and shout to each other as they throw paper leaflets in the air, watching them tumble in the breeze. But the language of their squabbles is not their parents’ native tongue, the Toba language from the northern province of Chaco – it is Spanish.