There are more than three hundred oil wells in Ecuador and oil related activities cover and area equal to two thirds of the Amazon Forest. That which would be Heaven on Earth, by Lake Agrio and in the rest of the Sucumbios province, looks more like a hell of pipes, burners and piscinas: smelly abandoned oil lakes. For the six million Ecuadorians the promise of development never came through. The oil rich regions are the poorest, with an incidence of cancer three times higher than the national average. This is the story of an ancestral land for the indigenous communities, a land that has the misfortune of being green above and black below.
