Rain or shine, every weekday from March to December, boat owner Salvador Mitidieri ferries students from the shore of the Amazon River in Brazil to the only primary school in miles on Santa Rosa — a remote island that is now the subject of a territorial dispute between Peru and Colombia.
Mitidieri's daily job is just one example of how the diplomatic quarrel between the two South American neighbors over the island has had little effect on the life of its roughly 3,000 residents.
