Peru Dispatches
April 24th, 2009
These are Ashaninka Indians from the remote village of Tenkarini in the Peruvian Amazon Basin, roughly midway between the eastern ridge of the Andes and Brazil. The woman on the left is Noemi, the village shamen, who led an Ayahuasca ceremony in which I participated and wrote about for Killing the Buddha. My New Republic piece about the local threat posed by illegal loggers and, increasingly, oil and gas development, can be found here. Many thanks to the Cool Earth Foundation and Tropicana for sponsoring my trip.
