The villagers are demoralised, with no electricity or road and a poor crop.

因为没有电和大道，粮食歉收，村民心情低落。

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However poor you are, villagers are being told, it is not worth the risk to go foraging in the uncleared forests for food.

ECONOMIST: Cambodia

Chevron says the villagers may be sick, but that poor sanitation and continuing environmental abuses by state-owned Petroecuador are to blame.

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