The Amazon has a size similar to the European Union. Despite his great wealth, there has never been the center of any Viceroyalty or Republic. This basin has been distributed among various States whose capitals, rulers and the bulk of its inhabitants are closer to oceans of the great river. However, the number of inhabitants and the political role of the Hispanic Amazon has grown. Unofficial (Communist subversion and drug trafficking) have been pillars of the main armed powers in Peru and Colombia. Lucio Gutierrez of Ecuador and Peru Belaunde there had its best votes.
The protests in the Peruvian jungle were able to create before the last Department (Ucayali) and today seek to undermine the current economic model. In the country where the Amazon comes more expanding its impact is Bolivia (the only nation of the basin without outlet to the sea). Santa Cruz has become the epicenter of the largest anti-izquierdista autonomist movement in South America and could become the first Amazonian Republic. Original author and source of the article.