Indigenous groups criticize Ecuador’s $47 billion oil expansion plan in Amazon

The biggest oil spill in Ecuador in more than a decade has created a crisis within a crisis for Indigenous peoples living in the Amazon. Hiding in their territories to escape infection from coronavirus, hundreds of indigenous communities are now cut off from fresh food and water because their rivers have been contaminated with crude oil. Today they’re fighting back-- affected Indigenous families, local & regional indigenous organizations have filed a lawsuit demanding the Ecuadorian government &