translation of the original article in French at:
http://www.psyvig.com/default_page.php?menu=14&page=26 Ayahuasca shamanic and tourism: travel to the limit of horror for two Italians in the Amazon
Guy Rouquet
Guy Rouquet
"The story is told here occupies my thoughts a few months. It was thanks to the account of a journalist 's investigation, which led an investigation on the dangers of ayahuasca shamanism and tourism, which I learned about the deaths of two young Italians in the equatorial Amazon, following an overdose during a ritual organized by the natives.
Emily and Eva Denis Tronchin were Italian. The two friends went missing Aug. 6, 2006 after entering the equatorial jungle to ingest ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic drink prepared for them. A few months later their bones were found scattered, were cut to pieces.
Investigators assume that behind the death of two Italian hides an organ trafficking. In fact, thirteen bodies were found at the place where the police found the remains of the Ecuadorian young Scoresby and his Milanese friend. "
Summary:
- Facts
- The investigation
- 11 May 2009 The situation
- Tzamarenda, a controversial
- The Hard Truth can hide another
- What to think?
The news has made no fuss in France or the French language press. But the deserved, because the fact is not only sordid and tragic, but also reveals a way to mix roughly the esoteric exoticism and exploit the gullibility of the Western customer by unscrupulous shamans.
1. The facts
Emily Eva, born in 1978, was a musician and Tronchin Denis, born in 1977, was graphic designer (web designer). Both parties were from London to Quito July 28, 2006 to learn about the shamanic practices of the Indians Shuars and experience ayahuasca (1). They had to return to Italy on Aug. 19.
Denis had been interested in shamanism surfing the internet. Through the website "shaman drum" was in contact with Francesco de Giorgio, an Italian shaman, who directs his customers to Ecuador after it is made with conferences, workshops and seminars. Emily and Denis would have known a few months earlier, at a meeting of this kind.
During the flight that took them to Caracas, where they had to call to Quito, the two friends became acquainted with Clarissa, a young Venezuelan, who showed them some place to visit. On August 5, the eve of the disappearance of two young people, it received a message written in English when Denis told her to live with Emily, "a ritual strong, with three days of fasting, that the time was" very difficult " that he would mention this in person since his return in Italian was very complicated to explain.
seems that dealing with an affordable price was arranged for a private ritual Denis and Emily, who passed for Puyo, where they reached a hotel in the Italian place (El Colibri), sent by some fellow countrymen Francesco de Giorgio.
That's where Tzamarenda Naychapi Estalin Abran, a shaman of Ecuador appointed by the principal chief of the elders of the community Shuar, call Yawints 1600 and composed of natives, he met Emily and Denis.
Isolated from the group in circumstances that remain unclear, the two young men were first conducted in the village "Parroquia 16 de Agosto", then in the forest where, according to witnesses natives have taken ayahuasca. Following ingestion of the drink, one would enter into a sort of coma and the other would have lost his reason. Was therefore decided to delete and then the bodies will disappear after being chopped to pieces.
The remains were found scattered along the Pastaza River. In December 2006, four months after the death, half of the body (trunk and head) Emily Eve and was found in February 2007, the other half. In March some of the bones of Denis Tronchin. With the support of genetic testing, medical examiners have confirmed that these were the remains of Emily and Denis.
2. The investigation
Villamagua Angel, representing the prosecution of Morona Santiago, the instruction following the March 22, 2007. An arrest warrant has been made against five Indians, including Stalin Abrahan Tzamarenda Naichapi. By order of the court, the police came at dawn in their homes, located Palora, and captured three suspected culprits. In the house of Abel Luicio naach, the cousin of Tzamarenda, they found a bag branded "Quechua" that had the features disclosed by the family of Emily, when she was advised of the death of his son. They were also found in royal garments during this trip in Ecuador.
The people involved have testified accusing them of murdering the Italians. One witness told the investigator that they had resided in the August chambers Tzamarenda (Yavinza Palora area), another was pointed out that at the same time he had transported in his van two foreigners Italians, Palora to Puyo, where handed them over to Raul Elias Antuca, a close friend of Tzamarenda with which organized the said "shamanic tourism." Added to the other, these details have led Angel Villamagua to investigate the five Shuars accused of double murder.
Then time has run its course. The investigator which dealt with the investigation has received death threats and the first witness Shuar, who told the authorities what had happened Tzamarenda indicating how the man who gave the order, was killed ... His head would have been scaled down and burned his remains. In flight, Tzamarenda ended up being arrested in Quito (Mitad del Mundo) after several months of research. But to everyone's amazement, after a few hours after his capture, the prosecutor of Macas (where he had been transferred) has released for not having been able to establish his responsibility.
3. The situation 11 May 2009
Assassination the witness has established a climate of fear among the Shuar. Those who know are silent. But the tension was palpable. Of strong dissent oppose indigenous families, so that the alleged perpetrators, sbarazzatisi their accusers, turned against the whites, defined as having trouble ... Faced with Bianchi, colonists, thieves and destroyers, the patriotism of the nation Shuar is activated strongly. On the network, in some sites, you Shuars apostrophised violently and some express, without concealing their hostility, even their hatred of Western thought, industrialists, traders, missionaries (2).
The family of Emily and Eva Denis Tronchin hope to one day know the truth, to know what really happened in August 2006. But thousands of miles away, are unarmed Italian embassy in Ecuador is not able to conduct the investigation. Fear, misinformation, corruption and the elimination or concealment of evidence or clues, suggest that the process will not lead to anything or pose thing.
If the murders occurred after the session with the ingestion of ayahuasca shamanism, if the cutting of bodies has occurred with the scattering of pieces in the environment, Italians tend to be burdened with a responsibility heavier in this tragedy. Emily and Denis have used an Italian network to meet in Puyo, fellow at the hotel. They came with the precise intention of consuming ayahuasca. The group from which they were isolated but would shorten the trip and would rush back in Italy, leaving out a doubt on its involvement in the matter. Index aggravating: the dismemberment of the authors have used a miter saw, which is definitely not a modus operandi of the Shuar ... In essence, by giving to think that, beyond all reason, the fellow travelers of Emily and Denis are the authors of the dismemberment of the bodies, some "reporters" seem to have applied to move the center of gravity of the matter ...
4. Tzamarenda, a controversial
The tragedy does not cease to refer to the character of Tzamarenda that presents itself to those who want to listen to as a "Shuar warrior" who lives the high mountain fishing, hunting and collection pledging to heal the world from its evils and its penalties.
Palora settled in Canton in the province of Morona Santiago, said to continue the mission of his ancestors.
forties, the man is obviously very good, according to the wearing circumstances of his skin or the leopard his estate calendar. Good speaker, intelligent, seductive, "the harsh voice like the bark of the trees" know impose its visitors or clients, give them what they seek, exoticism, disorientation, ancestral practices and knowledge ... Satisfying the White knows more easily obtain his gratitude.
The inconsistencies between the rhetoric and actions of Tzamarenda who says he has made have been condemned by equdoriani, but also by the French who, touched by the living conditions of the Shuar people, have made donations, created a system of adoption for students, funded the purchase of a solar panel and of a water pump, before discovering the abuse of trust of their solicitor and to realize that the call money was used for personal purposes.
Tzamarenda has traveled abroad several times, including in Europe, where he has been able to convey as the representative of the Shuar nation. So, in November 2004, invited by the Ecuadorian Ministry of Tourism, hoping to increase the number of British travelers to his country, he went to London on the occasion of the World Travel Market tourism fair, to celebrate a ceremony in the financial expelled from the United Kingdom's "evil spirits" that are manifested in political, in stress due to overwork and accidents in health by the consumption of chemically contaminated food. " Using "the cosmic energy of the Shuar people," Tzamarenda wanted the British began to write symbols on a white sheet, not affected by the system that keeps all Western captives. "
In June 2006, with the participation of Ecuador at the World Cup in Germany, Maria Isabel Salvador, Minister of Tourism hopes to promote not only football, but also its products, its culture and his interest. According to her, the shaman Tzamarenda, was part of the delegation because the present world was searching for spirituality, the idea was that he would bring "a message of peace and positive spirit to the World Cup." And so Tzamarenda, very happy, he acquired a surplus of renown and "purified", in leopard skin, the German stadiums. But burying a feather caught in the turf of the Olympic stadium in Berlin, and accused of throwing a spell at the German team, denied. "The shaman wanted to bring positive energy to the stage of the World" tried to explain, embarrassed, a bureau chief of the Ecuadorian tourism. Wrong calculation in several ways: with 3 to 0, the Sull'Equador Germany won in the first match of Group A.
According to his detractors who are not of his world and have no respect trope, Tzamarenda would hardly be a shaman. But it must be noted that in this way with several indigenous Amerindians, with this important designation by the media, exploiting the credulity of Western (mainly European and North American) playing on their guilt and repentance in relation to "Indians" on their Rousseau's defense of nature (the myth of the noble savage) and the need for adventure or disorientation in the districts "wild", or simply on the request for new sensations, consuming powerful drugs known as "visionary" as if they were initiations ("sacred drink").
5. The Hard Truth can hide another
Investigators assume that behind the murder of two Italian hides an organ trafficking. In fact, thirteen bodies were found at the place where the Ecuadorian police found the remains of the young of Scoresby and his friend Milan.
Now, July 13, 2006, at the time of the death of Denis and Emily, Gilberto Yankuam, vice president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nations of the Amazon, disappeared while he was gone fishing in the area Basis of Union, five kilometers from Puyo, in the company of Jorge Mayancha and Chumbe Bosco, a friend and bodyguard. Due to the increase of water generated by strong Pogge at the time, had decided to suspend their fishing trip. But when they were about to reach the shore, Yankuan has fallen and taken away by the current. The active research in the following days by the rescue teams did not give any result. At the same time Antonio Moncayo was amazed that, repeatedly calling the mobile Yankuam Gilberto, his brother, the telephone rings. Deduced that this thing was not normal, "the phone can not send out signals underwater, and in any case should be exhaust. In October 2006, the phone rang again, but no one answered. These doubts are reinforced. For him it became clear that her brother had drowned and that his disappearance was dependent on other circumstances. In November 2006, Moncayo picked up clues that made him think that his brother might have been kidnapped in the canton of Palora (Morona Santiago).
With the help of many leaders shuars, he continued his research. In mid-February 2007 was identified with a minor who knew where he was Yankuam Gilberto, with the support of the judicial police of Pastaza and Morona Santiago, and the prosecution of Pastaza. This was a mandatory Shuar by his parents to work in the service the house of Jorge Tunka, one of the suspects in the abduction.
The minor admitted that it was a "faithful witness" and that he knew things about the kidnapping of Gilberto. Jorge Tunka indicated that it was the person responsible for supervising Yankuam on the orders of Commander Stalin Naichap Tsamarenda Antuca and Elijah, a municipal councilor of Palora.
Based on this information, February 28, 2007, members of the Shuar nation went in the Planada area (parish in Canton Arapicos Palora) to stop Tunka, which was immediately transferred into the community of Tsurakù located 51 km from Puyo, on the road to Macas.
Tunka confessed Tsamarenda Antuca and that they were the authors of the kidnapping of Gilberto. These statements recorded in a document drafted by the assembly of the nation biprovinciale Shuar of Pastaza and Morona Santiago. Following this revelation, three hundred shuars, led by Tunka, and six members of the police, they began searching for the missing leader. After several days of research, shuars had the belief that information was false, and their anger grew. Put back on the dumb, Tunka eventually confessed to murdering Gilberto Yankuam Tzamarenda order of January 28 (3), but had then thrown his body in a lake by cutting it into pieces. She explained that he had not confessed to the crime because he had been threatened in turn with death if he revealed the exact location where the Shuar leader had been assassinated.
Tunka's testimony inflamed the spirits of people gathered in Tsurakù, who decided to judge him right away. The six policemen who were with the Indians throughout the day were forced to leave the community. However, persuaded him to surrender shuars Waam Lucia, wife of Tunka, and the two minor children in order to avoid being lynched.
the evening of Friday, March 2, after many hours of discussion, the leaders of the Shuar community Tunka condemned to death, according to their ancient laws that say that "he who kills with the knife die with a knife." After taking this decision was taken at the back Tunka the place of the "trial" and was executed. Followed up his corpse was burned and sprinkled with an essence.
On 5 March, shuars gathered again to demand justice and the arrest of Tsamarenda (one of the suspected kidnapping of Yankuam), indicating that they were in a state of "Community Emergency" as long as necessary.
On March 6, before the request of the authorities, shuars agreed to return the remains of Tunka: The director Tarquinio Altamirano, met with five people, twenty of them with their faces covered by ski masks and handkerchiefs, calling for the arrest of Tsamarenda, which accused him of various crimes.
One of the conditions imposed by the natives to return the remains of the victim of their opinion was that the superintendent and the police undertook to capture Tsamarenda in the following five days, and then deliver it to the courts. Also warns that remained in the "war footing" until it stops.
biprovinciale According to a document of the Assembly of the Shuar Nation, their leader Gilberto Yankuan was deleted because, after a voyage in the United States, he discovered a traffic shrunken heads (tzantzas). Heads from corpses of people killed or dug up. A native arrested and transported to museums of shrunken heads for North Americans, gave the name of Tsamarenda as a principal. To avoid disclosing his lucrative trafficking, illegal and criminal, it would have ordered the kidnapping of the vice president of the Confederacy.
On 28 February 2007, moving from Puyo to conduct this investigation, police in Quito has continued his research on the missing parts of the body of Eva and Emily Denis Tronchin. It is in these circumstances that were found near Pastaza, along with thirteen other bodies ...
6. What do you think?
The story told here deals with the my thoughts for a few months. It was thanks to the record of an investigative journalist who led an investigation on the dangers of ayahuasca and the "shamanic tourism," which I learned about the deaths of two young Italians in the equatorial Amazon, after an overdose organized by the natives during a ritual.
The research carried out allowed me access to witnesses and documents in English and Italian translation, which has proved very informative (4).
Emily and Eva Denis Tronchin were full of projects and had the future ahead of them. It is exciting to see the need for research that remains on the canvas. Their faces are the picture of health, youth (5). But there are more victims of the barbarism of their naivete and a media and cultural conditioning that leads us to believe that happiness is necessarily find elsewhere in the "others" visible to "invisible entities" or "guardian spirits of the forest "at the end of a journey" initiation "in which you ingest the drink called" sacred ", the teas actually neurotoxic effects with powerful hallucinogens.
Contrary to the claims of the promoters of these initiatives that support, through their lawyers, who can not die under the influence of ayahuasca at a session led by shamans, as we should succumb to take a huge amount of drink, the death of two Italians in the heart of their forces shows that the experience can be fatal. And, in this case, is not really possible to get out easily by saying that they had complied with the rules, accusing them of failing to have prepared and delivered to the first shaman arrived.
The horrific death of Emily and Eva Denis Tronchin should lead to the most extreme caution investigators that potential staff recruiters, sometimes enlightened, but more often cynical and greedy, register through the Internet to their workshops, seminars, workshops or meetings more or less folkloristic held in Europe, in Cogolin (France), for example. The main risks to physical health, mental, intellectual, spiritual of the individual are carefully passed over in silence or minimized to the maximum of apprentice wizards and by Dr. Mabuse fashion, with a thorough discussion of techniques and psychological manipulation to get answers on all evade embarrassing questions and apply to disqualify associations or institutions who denounce the excesses therapeutic and sectarian rifts that contaminate the health and social fields.
(1). Since May 2005, ayahuasca (or yagé or natem) is classified as a narcotic in France The decision was upheld by the State Council in December 2007. http://www.psyvig.com/default_page.php?menu=14&page=7
(3). Several newspaper articles in Italian and English including:
(4). Thanks to Isabelle Rituit, professor, for the translation of articles in Italian.
Article unpublished Rouquet Guy, President of the Vigilance Psychotherapie, put online on 11 May 2009. The text, which will be the subject of additional joins to those appearing under the heading "drugs" and that "shamanism and neosciamanesimo" site Psychotherapie Vigilance: http://PsyVig.com
Date of ' Last Mass of the text: May 12, 2009, at 8:55 am.
