
Shuar indigenous men listen to Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa speak during the opening of the new village, Comunidad del Milenio Panacocha in Ecuador’s Amazon region, in mid-January. Ecuador’s government says it is using revenue from oil, the country’s chief source of foreign earnings, to build small villages like Comunidad del Milenio Panacocha, equipped with basic services for the indigenous communities that live in the same areas where oil is extracted. (AP Photo)