U.S.: Two Ecuadorians ejected from Petroleum Museum, in Texas

theecologist.org reported two indigenous representatives from the Ecuadorian Amazon travelled to the Permian Basin Petroleum Museum in Midland, Texas to present a gift – poster-sized photographs of rainforest contaminated by oil spills and debris.

Humberto Piaguaje and Robinson Yumbo, from the Secoya and Cofan nations, offered their donation to the museum’s executive director, Kathy Shannon.

At first she politely admitted the visitors into the museum’s offices. But when she noticed that the photos contained images of oil contaminated sites, including one of a child in a swing next to a rusted oil barrel with the Texaco logo, she refused the donation vaguely stating that she did not “want to be a part of this”. Read Article

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