A woman boarding a solar powered boat. — Federico Rios Escobar/The New York Times
ON a sweltering Sunday morning, 20 indigenous men from the Ecuadorian Amazon climbed into a canoe in their village near the Peruvian border. Their destination: Kusutkao, a neighbouring village 45 minutes away by river.
They were headed to a long-awaited intervillage sports competition, a tradition that hadn’t taken place in years.
