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New Photo Book Proves That Chevron Caused Ecuador’s “Amazon Chernobyl”

“We often hear of environmental catastophes but almost never meet the people who suffer the consequences.”

An Ecuadorian boy with a serious birth defect

Those are some of the introductory words of Lou Dematteis, one of the authors and photographers of the new photo book Crude Reflections: Oil, Ruin, and Resistance in the Amazon Rainforest.

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