José Manuyama was born in Requena, a town in the Peruvian Amazon. A teacher of Kukama indigenous origin, he is a member of the Committee in Defense of Water, an intercultural collective that defends the non-commercialization of water and other common goods, in addition to fighting for human and non-human dignity, threatened by the predatory international economy. José has been a protagonist of citizen struggles with the Committee in Defense of Water in the city of Iquitos and has undertaken a struggle against the multinational oil company Conoco Phillips so that the Nanay river basin is free of oil exploitation in the region. Always articulating many organizations and several indigenous ethnic groups, Pepe, as he is known by the community where he lives, also managed to contain a deforestation project of more than 40,000 hectares in the city of Tameshiyacu. Manuyama is a defender of life. He is an intellectual on the move who always presents the other side of what has historically been called “development”.