The Devil's Curve: A Journey Into Power and Profit at the Amazon's Edge
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Published: Sep 01, 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781553658979
Description: In June 2009, 60 soldiers slipped into the bush above Devil's Curve, a notorious bend in the two-lane highway connecting Peru's northern Amazon to the outside world. The soldiers had orders to dislodge the 3,000 Awajun natives who had been camped there for the past 57 days. The subsequent clash was deadly. At issue was the lease of three-quarters of the jungle to foreign oil and mining interests over the previous decade. The Devil's Curve untangles the story behind the deadly stand -- and the Canadian gold mine that provoked their drastic action.