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An oil pipeline broke in Ecuador’s Amazon region over the weekend, spilling thousands of barrels of oil into the jungle. Footage shows the oil has already poured into the Coca and Napo rivers, which feed into the Amazon. More than 20,000 people are likely to be impacted. This is the largest oil disaster in Ecuador since 2020 when another set of pipelines broke in the Amazon, spilling 16,000 barrels of crude. We hear from a local Indígenous leader and biologist about the impact of the spill and the history of oil contamination in Ecuador.