Tens of thousands of indigenous Huitoto Indians were slaughtered at the hands of the Peruvian Amazon Rubber Company in its quest for black gold. Managed at the city of Iquitos by Julio Arana, many of the company’s key investors were English. The atrocities were eventually brought to light by the Irishmen Roger Casement, who had …
This story is an excerpt from my forthcoming novel Everyone Comes from Belterra: When America Owned the Amazon, slated to be published by Pear Tree Press in July 2008. The story originates from my background research for the novel, when I encountered the horrific human rights violations committed on the Putumayo river in the early …
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