RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - At the start of April, one of the most devastating oil disasters to affect the country in the past 15 years occurred in the Ecuadorian Amazon region. An earthquake triggered a landslide in the provinces of Sucumbíos and Napo, which caused two pipelines to rupture.
As a result, at least 2.5 million liters of oil leaked out and contaminated the Coca and Napo rivers - food sources for the indigenous and riverine peoples living there.
With the coronavirus crisis, the disaster went largely unnoticed by the media. Tens of thousands of people in the area . . .
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