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Rethinking Poverty in the Amazon

By Brendan O'Boyle

María Teresa Quispe learned through experience how deforestation and indigenous economic rights go hand-in-hand

María Teresa Quispe is keenly aware of her status as an outsider in the Amazon. Born in London to Peruvian parents, Quispe grew up in Lima, Caracas and Buenos  Aires, and initially focused her career on addressing poverty among urban populations. But a chance trip to the Venezuelan Amazon as part of an Inter-American Development Bank project 15 years ago planted the rain forest firmly in her psyche. And her passion for fighting economic inequality kept it there. “In the Amazon, the reality of poverty cannot be defined or conceptualized the way it is in other parts of the country,” she says...

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