All his senses are focused on a monkey overhead. He raises the gun to his lips and blows. One hundred and fifty feet overhead, the monkey flounders and falls as the poison on the arrow tip takes effect. The hunter slings the monkey over his shoulder and the group moves on. Like a town in the 19th century American West, there is alcohol and there are women.
Street vendors sell tin pots and rubber boots, shovels and chain saws.
In open-sided buses, Indians and colonists travel from village and farm. Big rigs haul giant machines out to the oil fields. The search for oil after World War II first brought changes to E1 Oriente. Today's oil market has created a ground swell of development that is surging across the region. A dugout canoe protrudes from the back of an army troop carrier that moves through town and into the forest.