Myra Chicaiza sits with her mother Rosa Mercedes

"The first settlers told us not to wash clothes in the river; that the water was greasy. Sometimes the water looks fine, it’s clear, but very salty, and the soap won’t become sudsy, but since there’s no other place to wash clothes, we have to do it there. We also bathe in the river. It’s bad, because it makes you sick, gives you fevers, skin rashes, bumps. The [Texaco] oil wells were upriver and the petroleum flowed downriver, sticking to the riverbanks. When I was pregnant with Myra, I bathed in the salty [production] waters".
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