Nowadays in the Amazonian many indigenous are forced to work, under the hitch regime in the illegal logging camps of the Peruvian jungle. Mario Tapuy, an old Kukama indigenous, recalls when he was hooked for five years by a loan of money he made to buy a sewing machine. Like him, thousands of indigenous people have been victims of the abuse of entrepreneurs who took advantage of poverty and lack of work in the Amazon. Forced to work, recounts these abuses that still persist in illegal logging camps, a slavery form that must disappear in the Peruvian Amazon.
Production International Labour Organization, UN
Peru, 13 min. 2005
Nowadays in the Amazonian many indigenous are forced to work, under the hitch regime in the illegal logging camps of the Peruvian jungle. Mario Tapuy, an old Kukama indigenous, recalls when he was hooked for five years by a loan of money he made to buy a sewing machine. Like him, thousands of indigenous people have been victims of the abuse of entrepreneurs who took advantage of poverty and lack of work in the Amazon. Forced to work, recounts these abuses that still persist in illegal logging camps, a slavery form that must disappear in the Peruvian Amazon.
