BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Alexis Damancio Silva can’t forget the hardship in his town of Puerto Narino in far southern Colombia last year when extreme drought nearly dried up the Amazon River. Pink dolphins and fish died. Crops dried up. The town lost its easy access to markets.
Silva is hopeful the U.S. would help fund projects that could make Indigenous communities like his more resilient — solar panels for energy to refrigerate fish, for example, or cisterns to catch precious rain water.
“We ask the government of President Trump … to send us resources,” to help the region’s Indigenous people, he said in a Zoom interview with The Associated Press.
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