Community Farming Helps Tribe Without Frontiers Survive In Ecuador

Community Farming Helps Tribe Without Frontiers Survive In Ecuador   Andrea Durango, 2010   The Epera have never really understood or recognized the formal border between Colombia and Ecuador. They are an indigenous people who have always lived in the rainforest on both sides of the frontier. "Colombians and Ecuadorians, we are one nation," tribe member Carlos told recent UNHCR visitors to his community.   But in recent decades many of them have become victims of violence in southern...

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