Machaca: Tales from the Land of Corruption

The new venture started with optimistic hope for salvation from the poor economy in Ecuador, in the 1970s. When the first barrel of petroleum emerged, a sudden and almost spontaneously new society erupted in the Ecuadorian region of the Oriente. When the installations of the first perforation tower, the first camp, the first church, the first cabaret with its multicolored lights, and as new life and activities took place, the oil production, changed the forest, forever. Before the oil indus...