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Ecuador Oil Spill Pollutes River in the Amazon

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A rupture in Ecuador’s second largest oil pipeline polluted the Santa Rosa river in the lush Amazon jungle and shut off the flow of crude to a Pacific port in the city of Esmeraldas.

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