Feature: Indigenous communities in Colombia's Amazon basin suffer from rare drought

by Zhou Shengping

LETICIA, Colombia, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- "It is extremely severe. I have never seen such a drought before," said Mono Ramirez, a taxi driver from Leticia, a gateway city to the Colombian Amazon Forest.

The Colombian Amazon usually experiences short dry seasons from December to March and July to August. But this year, an unprecedented, ongoing drought has dried up the Amazon River and its tr