Photos: Shim Hyun-chul
Bernardin Reyes, an Ecuadorian victim who claims his vocal cords were damaged by the contaminated water, stands on solidified oil waste.
Korea Times photo by Yoon Sung-won
A Red Cross mark and dozens of handprints cover a wooden wall of a house near Coca to pay tribute to the victims.
An Ecuadorian shows prints on his shirt that read “respect and reparation, ChevronToxico, never again” in English, near a former Texaco oil field
An Ecuadorian grabs a decomposed fruit which has been grown on contaminated soil near Coca, northeastern Ecuador, where Texaco conducted oil-extraction activities for decades
Workers of PetroEcuador, a state oil company of Ecuador, rest in their truck near an oil-extraction facility.
A hand is covered with dark oil waste from a pit near the Aguarico 4 oil well in Lago Agrio, northeastern Ecuador. Ecuadorians claim that the contamination is serious because oil waste continuously oozes to the surface from underground after Texaco’s oil extraction activities.
Source: Korea Times
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