Chief Ompore couldn’t stop smiling as he watched photos of Amazonian animals get projected across the Town Hall wall of Yarentaro – a remote village in Ecuador’s Yasunà National Park inside what oil companies call “Block 16.” It was the 14th of December 2012 and the Spanish oil giant RepSol that administers the petroleum block […]
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A Hidden Tragedy Translated: The Censored Book That Broke Ecuador’s Heart
// jaco // Chekhov's Kalashnikov Tags: Ecuador, Oil, Waorani No Responses
Published on Chekhov’s Kalashnikov: “At the end of march this year, 2013, in the jungles of Ecuador’s northern orient, a great massacre of uncontacted indigenous was committed.” opens the book A Hidden Tragedy. “Accomplished in a way that was abusive and cruel. Those eliminated, above all, where women and children.” Seventeen minutes before the book […]