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Wars of the Interior (Paperback)
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Wars of the Interior (Paperback)
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Loot Price R275
Discovery Miles 2 750
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When you fill up your car, install your furniture or choose a
wedding ring, do you ever consider the human cost of your
consumables? There is a war raging in the heartlands of Peru, waged
on the land by the global industries plundering the Amazon and the
Andes. In Saweto, charismatic activist Edwin Chota returns to his
ashaninka roots, only to find that his people can't hunt for food
because the animals have fled the rainforest to escape the chainsaw
cacophony of illegal logging. Farmer Maxima Acuna is trying to grow
potatoes and catch fish on the land she bought from her uncle - but
she's sitting on top of a gold mine, and the miners will do
anything to prove she's occupying her home illegally. The awajun
community of the northern Amazon drink water contaminated with oil;
child labourer Osman Cunachi's becomes internationally famous when
a photo of him drenched in petrol as part of the clean-up efforts
makes it way around the world. Joseph Zarate's stunning work of
documentary takes three of Peru's most precious resources - gold,
wood and oil - and exposes the tragedy, violence and corruption
tangled up in their extraction. But he also draws us in to the
rich, surprising world of Peru's indigenous communities, of local
heroes and singular activists, of ancient customs and passionate
young environmentalists. Wars of the Interior is a deep insight
into the cultures alive in the vanishing Amazon, and a forceful,
shocking expose of the industries destroying this land.
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