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Teargas
- A New Experience! |
February
6, 2001 - Quito, Ecuador |
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Mad
Max was very
excited about a
photo opportunity for me at the local university! Indigenous
people from all over Ecuador were in the middle of an
organized strike that had closed major highways country-wide.
The headquarters and main focal point of the demonstrations
was close by with a myriad of different tribes and cultures
camping out on the campus.
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An
opportunity to photograph many different tribes
in one place! And experience teargas firsthand!
I didn't get to see any actual cannisters launched
until that night on the tv news, but I sure felt
the residual effects. |
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We spent a couple of hours wandering among the various
groups and camps. Although most sects had different styles
of dress and their own language, they all seemed to speak
at least some Spanish. Max was not shy about asking about
their villages and lifestyles. He was recruiting interested
villages in participating with his eco-tour foundation.
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As
we walked away from the campus we encountered a
pick-up full of foodstuff's for the protesters that
had been stopped by a police roadblock. Max intervened
on behalf of the nuns driving the truck and said
that there were plenty of people to carry the cargo
into the camps. The
police said."No, you can't do that either!" Finally
the police gave in to Maxs insistence and let the
truck pass through to the hungry protesters.
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