Foreigners aboard Peru riverboat held in pollution protest

By FRANKLIN BRICENO
Associated Press

LIMA, Peru (AP) — An Indigenous leader in Peru’s Amazon region says that his community is holding 23 foreigners and 75 Peruvians who had been passengers on a riverboat to demand government attention to complaints of oil pollution. Wadson Trujillo says the foreign passengers include citizens of Germany, Great Britain, Spain and France. They were been travelling along the Maranon River when the vessel named Eduardo 11 was halted by residents of Cuninico. Trujillo told The Associated Press Friday that all the passengers are in good health and the community plans to let them continue their journey in the coming hours.