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In an oil spill’s aftermath in Peru, new voices lead an Indigenous fight for justice 18 December, 2020 - 18:50
Flor de María Paraná, 47, describes the bleakest moment of her life as the one that made her the leader she is today. “It was the day that everything changed,” she says when she remembers June 22, 2014. That Sunday, she saw some black spots, and noticed the strong smell of fuel, along with dead fish in the Marañón River. The damage extended from the creek from the Indigenous community of Cuninico, located in the district of Urarinas, in Peru’s Loreto province. Without knowing it, Flor de María was seeing the first evidence of one of the largest oil spills recorded in recent years in the Peruvian Amazon. “When the spill happened, there was nothing to eat. All the fish and our crops were contaminated. So, the men went to work cleaning the oil,” Flor de María recalls. State-owned Petroperú, oper