Indigenous protesters blocked the entrance to Ecuador's congressional building in Quito last January, bringing the government to a standstill and forcing the president to step down. The indigenous people around Lago Agrio have hardly profited from the discovery of oil in their region. But they have inherited lots of pollution and accompanying health problems. The men make a red paste from a special nut and apply it to their hair. Maryknoll Sisters Laura Glynn, left, from Hartford, Connecticut, and Elsie Monge, a native Ecuadorian, have been helping to organize Ecuador's Amerindian people since 1975, when they helped found an ecumenical group to defend human rights.
Tourists come here to take photos of themselves in both hemispheres.
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