Hurricane Alex, with winds of up to 100km an hour, is hampering efforts to clean-up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.<br /><br />The state department has welcomed help from 12 countries offering to assist with the clean-up.<br /><br />And there has been a rare offer of support from an indigenous community from Ecuador for another indigenous tribe in Louisiana that has been affected by the spill.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Scott Heidler joined the Ecuadorians in Louisiana's Bay Baptiste. [June 30, 2010]
