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Today has been an…um..interesting…day.As we were eating breakfast and preparing for our day of clinic we were told that we would have to wait to leave because the streets were closed.There were protestors rioting in the streets all night…burning tires and breaking bottles.I'm not sure exactly what is going on but I heard that the government sold one thousand acres of the jungle to a major oil company.The jungle is home to many indigenous people and probably contains many squatter villages (as I have been discussing in the previous days blogs).Where are all of these people going to go? I would be angry too! We were taken to our clinic site via the back of a pickup truck and could see the remnants of lasts night's riots on the road. The nave of the village we went to today is "25 de Mayo" (The 25th of May).The village "Mayor", Sr. Wolcer Perez, said it was named after the day they began building the village four years ago.Clinic seemed a bit congested today, we only saw 80 people, but the people seemed a lot sicker than the one's on Monday.Same problems, parasites, rashes, scabies, diarrhea, but many of the children had high fevers and needed treatment with multiple antibiotics. Clinic was cut short as the riots are expected to continue this evening….so we were asked to stay inside the compound tonight, which if just fine with me!!!
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