From the Americans Who Tell the Truth portrait series
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Produced by: Will Parrinello | Documentary | USA, Peru
Overcoming a history of traumatic violence, Ruth Buendía united the Asháninka people in a powerful campaign against large-scale dams that would have once again uprooted indigenous communities still recovering from Peru’s devastating civil war.