Putumayo

The first result of the publication of the Putumayo atrocities in the London Press was denial.

As for the Putumayo region, it was practically unknown until the last decade of the nineteenth century.

As a rule, the criminals who controlled the Indian population of the Putumayo were chary of robbing an Indian husband of his wife.

That their large staff of European employees in the sanguinary Putumayo does not exceed eight or ten men at the most.