On March 20, an alliance of local indigenous organizations in Tena held an assembly of approximately 2,000 people to protest oil exploitation in the Amazon. The assembly featured the election of board members for a recently-formed coalition called Frente de Resistencia a la Actividad Petrolera de los Bloques 20 y 29 to fight new oil projects, which was followed by a demonstration march past a local Texaco station in a self-proclaimed state of permanent resistance.
