Ecuador’s constitutional assembly passed a mining mandate last week that cancelled a majority of the country’s mining concessions, suspended remaining projects, and imposed a moratorium on awarding new concessions while giving the government a six month deadline to re-write the country’s mining legislation. […]
Residents from the southern Ecuadorian province of Azuay used rocks and burning tires to block a stretch of the Panamerican Highway on April 2 to protest a planned industrial-sized goldmine, which they say will contaminate the local water supply. Canadian gold giant Iamgold has been eyeing entry into the region.
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Noted for its political upheavals and popular protest, Ecuador is now raising eyebrows in the international policy arena with a bold proposal aimed at achieving the seemingly impossible: leaving its oil in the ground. […]
Ecuador’s indigenous confederation looks to a new leader, fresh mobilizations, changes in the Constituent Assembly and a critical juncture in the relationship with president Rafael Correa.
Ecuador’s government announced on Friday that it was revoking Ascendant Copper‘s mining concessions for the controversial Junin Project. “As an Intag resident, I am ecstatic to be rid of a source of conflict that was tearing our communities apart,” said Carlos Zorrilla, executive director of Defensa y Conservación Ecológica de Intag.
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Marlon Santi is the new president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE). He says that he will "join with the people in the Amazon, in the highlands, and on the coast. Since the problems are same and we have to walk together. I am not a leader who sits at a desk. I am a leader who will be out in the field, fighting for the people." […]
Marlon Santi, the new president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE, Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador), was elected by consensus on January 12 at 3:30 p.m. in Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas, and granted this first interview before the rest of the Governing Council was elected. […]
Ecuador followed in the footsteps of Venezuela and Bolivia this past November 30 by beginning the task of writing a new constitution. The goal is to remake the country’s political and social landscape. Similar to Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales, president Rafael Correa has pledged to use a new constitution to introduce socialism for the twenty-first century into Ecuador. […]
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On the road between the two oil towns Lago Agrio and Coca the brothels are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The women along the road are waiting for the oil workers. Many of them come from the Ecuadorian coastal region or are refugees from the conflict-ridden Colombia. […]
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