Latest Peruvian oil spill cuts Indigenous communities from life-giving river

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Latest Peruvian oil spill cuts Indigenous communities from life-giving river

As dawn began to break in the Peruvian Amazon on March 5, an oil slick spread across the Puinahua River in the district of the same name, engulfing clumps of palms and reeds in a thick, black layer as it streamed down the current. The sight of the spill prompted a desperate rush among the riverside Manco Cápac community to prevent the oil from contaminating the river they depend on for their survival. “I woke up to chaos,” Kara Fikrig, a biologi…