by Tom Gallagher
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October 27, 2010
A Spanish Jesuit priest, in Venezuela, Fr José Mar'a Korta Lasarte, 81, has been on hunger strike for seven days to demand the protection of a forest reserve measuring some 295,280 hectares in the northwestern state of Zulia, near the Colombian border, which is the ancestral home of several indigenous communities.
Fr Jose told reporters: “Today, indigenous peoples are mistreated…and if human beings are excluded, I am ready to give my life for them”.
