WHEN GUILLERMO VEGA, A BORA CHAMAN,
TOOK HIS ELDERLY FATHER
THROUGH THREE RIVERS, NANAY, AMAZON AND PUTUMAYO
TO THE ANCIENT LANDS WHERE ARANA
LORD OF THE RUBBER PLANTATIONS
HAD ENSLAVED THE BORA TRIBE
HIS FATHER REMEMBERED THE CRUEL RUBBER TIMES.
BECAME SPEECHLESS
AND DIED A FEW DAYS LATER
In 1910 Roger Casement headed a British delegation
to investigate the accusations of ethnocide
and crimes in the plantations of the
Peruvian Amazon Company, the Arana's
company established in London
CASEMENT'S "THE AMAZON JOURNAL" IS OUR GUIDE
TO A JOURNEY UP THE RIVER BACK TO THE TIMES OF THE RUBBER RUSH
"INNOCENCE AND POWER" IS A JOURNEY
BOTH TO THE PAST AND THE PRESENT
