Kayana Szymczak

Crude Reflections

Indigenous Cofan children play on one of the oil barrels left in their village, Dureno. The Aguarico River, which runs through the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon, and supplies the areas indigenous villages with their main source of drinking, bathing, and cooking water, has been contaminated by many un-remediated oil spills left in the area by ChevronTexaco.
Indigenous Cofan children play on one of the oil barrels left in their village, Dureno. The Aguarico River, which runs through the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon, and supplies the areas indigenous villages with their main source of drinking, bathing, and cooking water, has been contaminated by many un-remediated oil spills left in the area by ChevronTexaco.