The Devils Excrement

Bryan Patrick

Sacramento Bee

Maria Villasis sweeps in front of her chicken house. In back of her is an old oil can and a large field which was once an oil pit thats been covered up and leaks oil into the neighboring ground and well water. The pollution has given her many health problems with her liver and stomach due to the pollution of the water. She and her family rely on the land for food including there corn but pollution has made much of it uneatable so they give it to the chickens. Her husband is a potential witness in the trial against ChevronTexaco. Picture taken in Shushufindi just east and across the river from Lago Agrio, Ecuador. Picture taken in Sucumbios region in Ecuador, Thursday, October 23, 2003.

Bryan Patrick, "The Devils Excrement," in POYi Archive, Item #34478, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/34478 (accessed November 23, 2024).