Dr. Diego Bohórquez

You grew up in a very rural area.

Yes.

The oil had been detected in the 1920s in Ecuador.

It was first explored in 1964 in the first oil well was in a town called La Guagrio, which now is only like three or four hours from the town where I grew up.

But at that time it was like eight hours.

The roads were not good.

And the first road passed through it in 1974.

I was born in 1983, but I remember that we used to have like a giant diesel engine that will give us light electricity only from 7 to 9 p.m., you know.

And I remember when my father bought the first color television in the town and then neighbors would come to our living room and then we would watch movies.

Wow.

And this was in the 80s.

That was in the 80s, right?

Yeah, that's the question, right?

Like the deeper I go, the more I question this.

I used to think that, oh, it was very simple, you know, like when I was, specifically when I was 11 years old, my father, he was born in 1932.

And by 19, he lost his father, my grandfather, when he was six years old.

And he was given away and he had to go and like build his life.

He was a very successful entrepreneur.

But in the process, he had made a lot of friends and acquaintances.

So when I was 11 years old,