World Press Freedom Day: The journalist forced into hiding for resisting Ecuador’s authoritarian government – The Independent

Two police helicopters hover over the Amazonian rainforest. They descend slowly and stir the Sarayaku tribe into action. Men spread across the territory to block off potential landing zones. Women and children rush to their homes and return with makeshift weapons fashioned out of household utensils. Whenever the helicopters try to land, the women and children move in unison to ward them off. Liquid tobacco snarls out of their nostrils as they swallow up the ground beneath the helicopters. Read more>>

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