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Editor’s note: This is second in a series of columns describing the Durrants’ birdwatching trip to Peru. Part 3 will describe days 7 through 10 of...
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Kukama boys watch boats on the Amazon's Maranon River near Dos de Mayo in Peru's Loreto region. (CNS/Barbara Fraser) Several years ago, Rodrigo Pedroso began noticing an unusual pattern in the Indigenous villages he visited in the Amazon rainforest: Next to small, often abandoned Catholic chapels were newer, often larger evangelical churches. The observation led Pedroso, a Brazilian journalist, to examine what might be leading people in Indigenous communities to essentially swap Christian faiths. It became the focus of a project he reported in the fall of 2019 for the Pulitz...
Mean flooded streets and streams that cut right across the roads. and there's this, the maranon river. in the best of circumstances, a fairly adventurous way to get your vehicles across, a long line across a fast moving current, ferry propelled only by the flow of water. but today the maranon river is too high and the current too fast. >> river running a little high. >> it's these smaller boats or nothing. >> when dealing with complex transportation issues, the best thing to do is pull up with a cold beer and let somebody else figure it out. >> yeah. let's go in the boat. >> to my crew, i say ...