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Sápara indigenous people fight for survival amid the pandemic

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Llamchamacocha, Ecuador, Jun 29 (EFE), (Camera: Juan Francisco Chávez).- Wearing a Barcelona football shirt, a boy from the Sápara indigenous people glides down a river in the Ecuadorian Amazon in a canoe.He knows everything about the jungle, although he has no idea who Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi is.By the time they are 10 years old children in this indigenous community nimbly navigate their canoes through the rivers that flow into the Amazon basin.Waterways are the only connection between communities and the Sápara, the smallest of Ecuador's native populations, are fighting for survival with a new threat on the horizon: Covid-19.FOOTAGE OF SÁPARA INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN ECUADORIAN AMAZON.SOUNDBITES OF-Community leader Manari Ushigua:"We have told the State: let us live as we want to live. The Amazon is our heart and if the Amazon is our heart, we have to take care of it, because if we don't take care of it we will kill it."-Sani Montahuano:"We always say that we dream to live and we live to dream. The dream tells us what is going to happen."

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