Local people need help to cope with covid1910 Aug 2020 10:15
They will be suffering from the effects of the pandemic, like poor people all over the world, but unlike countless other poor communities, they have a very rich visitor in their area.
Please forgive the google translation - I'm being lazy.
"At the beginning of the week, the community members of the Awajún people closed station 5 of Petroperu and alerted their intervention in the facilities of Lot 95 in charge of PetroTal, measures that have been carried out and therefore the company has been forced to announce the total stoppage of its activities in said oil lot.
This measure directly affects the operations of the License Agreement of Block 95, ceasing to produce oil.
In the same way, PetroTal maintains that said measure will impact the canon that the Loreto region receives, which would impact activities, the Puinahua Canal, in neighboring towns.
“We recognize that the current context of pandemic in the country has highlighted the limitations and deficiencies that exist in the region in the health sector; especially in remote populations of the Loreto region. For this reason, PetroTal works together to advance the Central Government's Gap Closure Plan, in order to reverse the clear limitations, ”said Ronald Egúsquiza, PetroTal's CEO.
The company urges the people who are protesting, to lay down their measure of force and request the Executive to continue with an open dialogue process."
PTAL can easily afford to feed and support his local community, while helping the government in its efforts to close the huge poverty gap in Peru.
Time to be a good neighbour.