A demonstration against the entry of oil companies

The president of the Waorani community Nemonte Nenquimo (C) speaks during a demonstration against the entry of oil companies onto ancestral Amazonian lands for exploration activities, in front of the presidential Carondelet palace, in Quito on June 25, 2019. – The Ecuadoran government had appealed -on April- a ruling won by the country’s Waorani indigenous tribe, triggering a judicial fight on the extraction of crude oil in the Amazon. (Photo by Rodrigo BUENDIA / AFP)