Most of this week was taken up with our training in Huachi. We set off on Thursday and embarked upon our long journey to the rural school were the training was held. Having spent several hours on bumpy, winding, dusty tracks, crossing rivers and seeing wild pigs, we came to a sudden halt. There was a road block. Several local peasants were blocking the road as a protest to the oil company that was running its heavy trucks up and down their village, damaging their field, crops, livelihoods and roads. They were charging each vehicle the equivalent of £1 to pass. After some discussion, we agreed to pay, only to meet 2 other road blocks 200m further down the track. It was only when somebody said that Phil and I had travelled all the way from
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