Can Peru Revive Its Amazon Oil? Indigenous Communities Resist Amid Pollution Concerns
Near a quiet bend of the Patoyacu River in Peru’s northern Amazon, 25-year-old Wilmer Macusi, an Indigenous Urarina leader, stood atop a rusty pipeline that cuts through the jungle. He swirled a branch in the stagnant water pooled around it. “They say this is clean,” Macusi said, pointing to the water where an oil spill […]
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