In Ecuador’s Amazon, Big Oil exploits Indigenous communities in the absence of the state

Mongabay
Jun 26, 2025, 5:51 am111 pts
This story is published in partnership with the Ecuadorian independent media outlet GK. Sitting in a small gray motorboat, Rosa Aranda dips her fingers in the Villano River as she lists the communities she plans to visit over the coming days: Piwiri, Kamunwi and Yutzuyaku. Aranda, 45 years old with long, thick…

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