Drama bajo el manto Amazonico

by Randy Smith

a real good read if you can read real good..

Paperback

Published January 1, 1993

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[Lanier · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bi-lingual anthropological book, Crisis Under the Canopy: Tourism and Other Problems.. ., by Randy Smith, looks at the pros and cons of eco-tourism as a means to support the terribly fragile yet incredibly diverse indigenous tribes of Ecuador's Amazon basin. Originally published in 1993, with alternating English/Spanish pages.

The book also chronicles the way the Ecuadorian government swindled the Huaorani, Tagaeri and other indigenous tribes out of the rights to land with billion-dollar deals with Texaco, British Petroleum and other oil corporations. Judith Kimerling's Amazon Crude , also published in Spanish and English delves even further into these disastrous practices and helped Ecuadorian tribes win a monumental settlement after nearly a decade of trials and postponements.

I was fortunate enough to interview Smith several times from 1994-98, getting some of my most amazing expose pieces ever. Additionally, Kimerling introduced me to Smith as I went to Quito's Rainforest Information Center, (R.I.C) to interview someone completely different.