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Ecuadorians voted overwhelmingly on Sunday to reject oil drilling in a section of Yasuní National Park, the most biodiverse area of the imperiled Amazon rainforest. Nearly 60% of Ecuadorian voters backed a binding referendum opposing oil exploration in Block 43 of the national park, which is home to uncontacted Indigenous tribes as well as hundreds of bird species and more than 1,000 tree species.

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Sunday's vote makes Ecuador the first country to restrict fossil fuel extraction through the citizen referendum process, according to Nemonte Nenquimo, a Waorani leader. "Yasuní, an area of one million hectares, is one of the most biodiverse places on Earth," Nenquimo wrote in a recent op-ed for The Guardian. "There are more tree species in a single hectare of Yasuní than across Canada and the United States combined. Yasuní is also the home of the Tagaeri and Taromenane communities: the last two Indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation in Ecuador." "Can you imagine the immense size of one million hectares?" Nenquimo added. "The recent fires in Quebec burned a million hectares of forest. And so the oil industry hopes to burn Yasuní. It has already begun in fact, with the Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini (ITT) oil project on the eastern edge of the park."

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As a climate advocate, I know that fighting climate change can be thankless work, and the scope is overwhelming. However, it’s important to take time to celebrate climate wins because it gives climate advocates, communities and governments the courage to continue. ... In Ecuador, citizens voted in a referendum to protect Yasuní National Park — home to the Indigenous Tagaeri and Taromenane peoples and amazing biodiversity — from oil drilling. ... The same week in Montana, young advocates won a trial against the state for its inaction in protecting the environment. This is the first court case of its kind led by young people to reach trial — not to mention win. ... But neither struggle was easy, and both cases experienced many roadblocks along the way. ... The work to combat climate change is far from immediately gratifying. If anything, it’s quite the opposite — delayed and arduous. ... For every time a campaign fails or a policy is rejected, I’m inspired by the success of my peers. I know that it probably took countless failures and rejections to get to their well-deserved win. ... I hope that we all harness the courage to continue demanding climate action, even under grim circumstances of climate disaster and slow-moving policy.

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From NACLA.org: On August 20, Ecuador made history with a 59 percent vote in support of a popular referendum to stop petroleum drilling in the Yasuní National Park, one of the most biodiverse areas on the planet. “It’s an example not just for Ecuador, but for the world,” said Alexandra Almeida of Acción Ecológica, an environmental organization based in the capital of Quito.

Keeping oil in the ground in Yasuní will save 410 million metric tons of greenhouse gasses— equivalent to the annual emissions of France—from entering the atmosphere. The vote marks a triumph for the country’s grassroots anti-extractivist, ecological, and Indigenous movements, whose road to victory comes from a decade of social and political conflicts over extractive industry policies. 

Yasuní National Park is in part located in Waorani ancestral territory. It is also a unique area where South America’s richness of plant, amphibian, bird, and mammal species overlap, boasting the highest levels of biodiversity per square meter in the world. Over 150 threatened species reside there. Three Waorani groups—the Tagaeri, Taromenane, and Dugakeaeri—remain in voluntary isolation and are considered “uncontacted peoples.” Oil activity has driven illness, food insecurity, and massacres in the area

Waorani leader Nemonte Nenquimo shows hands stained with oil from a nearby spill in the province of Sucumbios, Ecuador, on June 26 [Courtesy of Sophie Pinchetti/Amazon Frontlines]

Napo river, Yasuni

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[ID: Two screenshots of articles about Ecuador’s vote to stop oil drilling in August 2023. The first is from The Guardian’s website, and the second from the Common Dream media site.

1st, article in The Guardian by Dan Collyns, posted on August 19th 2023. Above the article is a photo of Waorani activist Nemonte Nenquimo looking solemnly at the camera, and holding up both her gloved hands which are covered in black. The caption says, “ : ‘Oil causes poverty, contamination and death.' Photograph taken by Sophie Pinchetti / Amazon Frontlines.

The article is titled, “Ecuador prepares for ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ vote to stop oil drilling: Referendum alongside presidential election will decide whether to halt extraction in Amazon national park”. “As Ecuadorians go to the polls on Sunday they must not only decide between eight presidential candidates but also vote on an unprecedented referendum question that could set a new course for the oil-reliant nation. The poll will decide whether to halt drilling at the Yasuní Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini (ITT) oilfield, also known as oil block 43, which lies in an Amazon national park and one of the world’s richest pockets of biodiversity. Ecuador’s largest protected area is also home to the Waorani people and the country’s last Indigenous communities in voluntary isolation, the Tagaeri and Taromenane.” (End of first screenshot.)

2nd image, article posted by Jake Johnson on Common Dream, on August 21st, 2023 -  Titled, “Historic and Wonderful': Ecuadorians Reject Oil Drilling in Precious Amazon Region.’ ‘A remarkable example for other countries in democratizing climate politics."

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Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso, who was sworn in this past May, has vowed to double the country’s oil production. Perhaps nowhere is expected to be impacted more than Yasuní National Park. The park in eastern Ecuador — which sits at the confluence of the Andes foothills, the western Amazon basin and the equator — is about the size of Rhode Island and Delaware combined. It contains more varieties of trees in a single hectare (2.5 acres) than in all of the U.S. and Canada combined. Yasuní is also the home of the Waorani people as well as two uncontacted tribes who live deep inside the forest: the Tagaeri and the Taromenane.

‘Crude reality: One U.S. state consumes half the oil from the Amazon rainforest’, NBC News

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La Amazonía mostrada a través de impresionantes fotos

El proyecto Amazonas de los fotoperiodistas Alexander Fedorov y Elena Srapyan muestra cuán importantes, bellas e interesantes son las culturas que viven en la jungla del Amazonas. 

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The effects of oil drilling might also encroach on the lands of the Tagaeri and Taromenane indigenous groups, who live in voluntary isolation in an ‘untouchable zone’ that intersects the National Park. Today oil extraction in the Yasuní has increased ecological and social tension in the area, as the local population fears that oil drilling may risk potential spills and consequent health risks, along with unstable livelihoods for people dependent on temporary employment. This novel and radical strategy to pursue post-neoliberal development is grounded in the Quechua ‘buen vivir’ or sumak kawsay (collective well-being) worldview, which refers to a deep-rooted respect for nature and the lifestyles of indigenous groups, a notion that has resonated with similar initiatives in Bolivia and Brazil.įollowing six years of unsuccessful campaigning to obtain the stipulated minimum level of international funding and support, in 2013 President Rafael Correa officially declared the Yasuní-ITT initiative failed and approved oil drilling in Yasuní National Park. The initiative was in line with reforms to the Ecuadorian Constitution in 2008, which granted legal rights to nature. In 1979 UNESCO decreed parts of it a National Park and an Ecological Reserve, and the Yasuní-ITT project aimed to halt oil drilling and instead promote investment into social, environmental, and livelihood-related programs beyond oil extraction. The Yasuní region is recognized as one of the most biodiverse areas in the world, containing five times more mammalian species than Banff National Park in Canada. The Yasuní-ITT initiative was presented by former President Rafael Correa at a United Nations assembly in 2007 as a challenge to the international community. In exchange, the aim was for the international community to grant Ecuador conservation funds amounting to half the estimated oil revenue in the Yasuní reserve. Possibly the most significant is the 2007 Yasuní-ITT (Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini) initiative, which proposed to conserve parts of the Amazonian rainforest by banning the extraction of nearly 900 million barrels of oil in the area. (as per Wikipedia, Last update: September 20, 2020).A number of innovative efforts to protect the environment have taken place in Ecuador over the last decade. Does Dalo Bucaram Dead or Alive?Īs per our current Database, Dalo Bucaram is still alive Noted, Currently We don't have enough information about Cars, Monthly/Yearly Salary etc. Primary Income source Politician (profession) Let's check, How Rich is Dalo Bucaram in 2021? Net Worth Wendy Vera is also known for having served as an assemblyman of Ecuador.ĭalo Bucaram's estimated Net Worth, Salary, Income, Cars, Lifestyles & much more details has been updated below. He was selected to play for the Ecuadorian under 20 national team in 2001 and competed in the South American championships. Dalo Bucaram is one of the Richest Politician who was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Has ranked on the list of those famous people who were born on March 25, 1982. On our website, Dalo Bucaram is one of the successful Politician. He retired from football at 24 and started his career in the National Constituent Assembly in 2009. He studied law at the Metropolitan University of Ecuador and also studied Constitutional Law at the Universidad de Salamanca in 2013.

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Yasuni Bibliography

Why is drilling for oil in the Yasuni-ITT block of Ecuador's Amazon such a betrayal to the Ecuadorian people, the global anti-capitalist left, and to basic human rights? Today Newsweek publishes a piece I've been working on for a few months that attempts to answer this question:  "'After all the people we killed, we felt dizzy': A massacre, a twice-kidnapped girl and Big Oil star in a messy drama rattling Ecuador" 

Here is some additional reading and viewing for people interested in the story beyond what I was able to fit into the article. 

WIKILEAKS CABLE: ITT FUND HYPOCRISY IN ECUADOR GOVERNMENT

"The (Government of Ecuador) officially presented "Keeping the Oil in the Ground" at a June 5 World Environment Day celebration at the Presidency. The GOE proposed to refrain from developing the ITT field if the international community would compensate it for half of the estimated profits resulting from development, or $1.75 billion. The showy event at the Presidency included children and indigenous groups (the ITT is home to uncontacted peoples such as the Hoarani), and a colorful photo exhibit of Ecuador's Amazon forests. Cabinet members and even the President of Petroecuador all signed a large white poster in support of the initiative.

"... Meanwhile, Petroecuador's President, Carlos Pareja has been actively pushing for development of the ITT fields (reftel). In an ironic twist, the same day the GOE unveiled its Keep the Oil in the Ground proposal, Petroecuador applied for visas for a delegation to travel to Washington to meet with possible U.S.-based developers of the ITT field."

Cable 07QUITO1497, dated June 29, 2009, signed by U.S. Ambassador Linda Jewell, sent from the Quito Embassy, classified Confidential

(http://wikileaks.org/cable/2007/06/07QUITO1497.html)

SECRETOS DEL YASUNI YOUTUBE CHANNEL

I spoke to many people that didn't make it into the final version of the Newsweek article, including the Ecuadorian filmmaker responsible for this channel, and several of his sources. His work investigating the March massacre has been invaluable in my own process for putting together a narrative about what happened and why it is as important as I believe it to be, and his interviews with people like Miguel Angel Cabodevilla and Veronica Potes are extensive and compete. His interview with Cabodevilla has English subtitles (turn on YouTube's Closed Captioning option).

(http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGfFgLnW91VgVHDYYxWaMKA/videos)

WHY ECUADOR'S PRESIDENT HAS FAILED THE COUNTRY OVER YASUNI-ITT

The trajectory of Alberto Acosta is a fascinating one for anyone interested in Ecuador's current political "revolution" process. In this article in the Guardian, Acosta makes the case I briefly summarized about the vital importance of the Yasuni-ITT initiative to Correa's promise to change the source of Ecuador's economic construction.

(http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/sep/04/ecuador-president-failed-country-yasuni-itt)

(SPANISH) FULL REPORT BY ANTHROPOLOGISTS ABOUT UNCONTACTED GROUPS IN YASUNI

Due to space constraints, I wasn't able to get into this interesting report by a group of more than 20 Ecuadorian anthropologists about uncontacted people in the Yasuni jungle. The report says that the National Assembly's conclusion that there are no isolated people groups in the ITT and 31 blocks is flawed. The anthropologists conclude by "exhorting" the National Assembly not to approve oil drilling in the Yasuni, because further study is needed to determine the movements and locations used by the Taromeneni and other uncontacted people (the report identifies for the possible presence in Yasuni of an uncontacted group called"iwene"), and time is needed to determine how best to protect them.  

(http://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=d32e9902575e577778bf3fb5e&id=9585f2fbba&e=abe5d73319)

(SPANISH) LEAKED POLICE PRESENTATION SUGGESTS CRIMINALIZATION OF ANTI-DRILLING PROTEST

In a very strange twist, Yasunidos, the group trying to collect 600,000 signatures to force a referendum on whether to drill, appears to be the subject of police surveillance and tracking. 

Yasunidos themselves presented slides from a police presentation, classified "Secret", at a press conference, and Anonymous Ecuador posted the full presentation to their blog. I wasn't able to get the police to confirm or deny whether the slides were original in time for the publication deadline, but if real, they are chilling evidence that Correa is deploying state security to photograph, follow and generally keep track of people non-violently collecting petition signatures. 

(http://anonymouesecuador.blogspot.com/2013/12/anonymous-hace-nuevas-revelaciones.html)

(SPANISH) LEFT WING GROUPS RELEASE STATEMENT AGAINST GOVERNMENT DECISION TO DRILL

Felipe Ogaz is a member of Diabluma who I was able to quote in the article about his personal experience of growing distant from a revolutionary government that he once supported. His group, however, is just one part of a broader collective, Yasuni.Si, a collective of collectives of farm labourers, afro-ecuadorians and other rural people are all struggling with that process of separation and alienation with the government in different ways. This is their launch manifesto.

(http://www.yasuni.si/)

(SPANISH) AFTER BOOK BAN, AUTHOR GETS VISITED BY COMPLAINANT TO CLARIFY: BAN WASN'T OUR IDEA

In this very interesting blog entry on the Aguarico vicarage webpage, author and former Capuchin missionary Miguel Angel Cabodevilla gives new information about a visit he received that illustrated the back-story of the banning of his book.

The night of the ban, government officials arrived at the launch event with a family court judge's order (best local newspaper about that is here), banning the sale of Cabodevilla's new book about the March massacre of Taromenane. The ban had been issued by a complaint filed by the Ombudsperson's office, a supposedly neutral government entity that defends people's rights within the system, to defend the rights of Taromenane girls whose blurred photos were published in the book. However, when the ban went south and was denounced not only on social media but by top Correa ministers, the judge rescinded it. 

The next morning, Ombudsman people visited Cabodevilla to inform him they were dropping the complaint they´d made to the family court, but they also told him who their complaint had actually been triggered by: the Attorney General's office, the entity in charge of the criminal investigation into the massacre. 

(http://vicariatoaguarico.org/index.php/noticias/orellana/356-una-tragedia-ocultada-miguel-angel-cabodevilla-y-milagros-aguirre)

There are many, many more links I could share here. So much of what is going on in Ecuador right now ties back to Yasuni, to the united, organized and well-argued opposition it has inspired, and, ultimately,  to Correa's fear of that opposition. The closure of the Pachamama NGO, the raid and criminal prosecution of a journalist who was investigating oil deals in the Amazon, and a thousand other small cuts against people in some way related to environmental causes are part of the broader picture I think will become clear with time. 

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Petroamazonas dice que visita de la Defensoría del Pueblo a Bloques 31 y 43 se retrasó por incumplimiento de requisitos Respecto a la visita in situ dispuesta por la Defensoría del Pueblo de Orellana a las operaciones de los Bloques 31 y 43 (ITT), que se realiza del 23 al 26 de julio de 2019, Petroamazonas EP, aclara a la ciudadanía, que: 1. Todas las personas que ingresan a los Bloques 31 y 43, de manera obligatoria, deben contar con los carnés de vacunación de fiebre amarilla, difteria/ tétanos, influenza hepatitis B y sarampión, cuyo objetivo es precautelar la seguridad y la salud tanto de los visitantes como de los indígenas de la zona y sobre todo de los pueblos en aislamiento voluntario, en cumplimiento a lo dispuesto en la legislación vigente. 2. La visita planificada sufrió un retraso en su inicio debido a que los delegados incumplieron con los certificados de vacunas y médicos, requisitos obligatorios para el ingreso a la operación petrolera de los Bloques 31 y 43, sobre los que fueron informados de manera previa y oportuna en varios comunicados enviados a la Defensoría del Pueblo con sede en Orellana. 3. Petroamazonas cumple de manera rigurosa con el Protocolo de Conducta para el desarrollo de actividades hidrocarburíferas en zonas colindantes con la zona intangible Tagaeri- Taromenane y su zona de amortiguamiento; la Declaratoria de Interés Nacional de la Explotación Petrolera de los Bloques 31 y 43, dentro del Parque Nacional Yasuní y otras disposiciones establecidas para precautelar los derechos de los pueblos en aislamiento voluntario y de los indígenas de las comunidades de la zona de influencia. 4. Las comunidades de la zona de influencia directa para el Bloque 31 son comuna kichwa Samona Yuturi, Chiro Isla, comunidad Waorani de Kawymeno y para el Bloque 43, la comuna kichua Sinchi Chicta, San Vicente, Puerto Quinche, Boca Tiputini y Puerto Miranda. 5. El Ministerio del Ambiente (MAE) tiene presencia permanente en la operación de la petrolera estatal en los Bloques 31 y 43-ITT para desarrollar el monitoreo del trabajo en estos dos bloques. 6. En cumplimiento de la Declaratoria de Interés Nacional se realizan de manera semestral Monitor https://www.instagram.com/p/B0V8ZealfeT/?igshid=v8fnnrc4x7s1

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Pueblos aislados del Amazonas: Ecuador firmó acuerdo para protegerlos

Pueblos aislados del Amazonas: Ecuador firmó acuerdo para protegerlos

El Ministerio de Justicia de Ecuador informó que el Gobierno  Nacional firmó un acuerdo con los puelos aislados del Amazonas, específicamente con la etnia indígena waorani, para respetar y proteger los derechos de los pueblos tagaeri y taromenane.

Al respecto, la ministra de Justicia, Rosana Alvarado, y el presidente de la Nacionalidad Waorani de Ecuador (NAWE), Wilson Ima,suscribieron el…

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Ecuador votes to reduce oil exploitation in Yasuní National Park

http://bit.ly/2ElK0p4 YASUNÍ NATIONAL PARK, Ecuador — A decisive battle is just beginning for Indigenous peoples and ecologists who have been watching helplessly as state-owned oil company Petroamazonas settles into Yasuní National Park, one of the world’s most biodiverse areas, to take advantage of its oil reserves. Oil extraction in Yasuni is happening in Blocks 31 and 43, better known as the ITT Initiative, and is made up of the Ishpingo, Tambococha, and Tiputini fields. In October 2013, the Assembly accepted the request of former President Rafael Correa to allow hydrocarbon extraction in Blocks 31 and 43. These blocks encroach on the Tagaeri-Taromenane Intangible Zone (ZITT), created to protect Indigenous communities in the area whose residents choose to remain isolated from other people. For the first time, those opposing the initiative have a crucial weapon to fight the extraction of oil, which began more than four years ago. This weapon against the extraction is known as “popular will” and is supported by 6.1 million Ecuadorians (with 98.5 percent of the overall vote) who voted “yes” to Question Seven on a recent referendum. The referendum was organized by President Lenín Moreno to address changes at the economic, political, judicial and environmental levels. The results of the referendum also eliminate Ecuador’s policy of indefinite reelection, which prevents former President Rafael Correa’s intended re-election to the presidency. President Lenín Moreno, who proposed the call in the referendum and popular consultation, voted at the Equinoctial Technological University in Quito. Photo courtesy of the Presidency of Ecuador…

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Yasuni Man film is an intimate likenes of a beautiful ground under siege for world oil

US biologist Ryan Killackey spent seven years filming a polemical note of a remote grove community under pressure from US and Chinese oil companies

Watching a film-maker expend tweezers to obtain squirm, inch-long Amazonian parasites from his brutal leg is traditionally rank among the more stomach-churning of cinematic knows, but it is a mere sideshow in a new film that indicates Ecuadors most well known nature reserve faces far graver threats than it poses.

Over the past seven years, US biologist Ryan Killackey has stood bot fly larvae, dysentery, missile ant stingings and malignant melanoma that are intended to film an intimate and trenchant detail of a remote wood community under pressure from US and Chinese petroleum companies.

The result is Yasuni Man, a 90 -minute record of a stunningly beautiful region believed to be one of “the worlds largest” biodiverse on the planet at a particularly agitated time in its history.

It focuses on the Yasuni biosphere fund, which induced hope of all the countries in 2007 when the Ecuadorian authority announced a world-wide fundraising drive for its protection against mining houses.

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After the finding of a $7.2 bn oil reserve inside Yasuni, the government proposed leaving the fossil fuel in the field if the international community would donate half that amount.

The ITT Initiative( which covered the Ishpingo, Tambococha and Tiputini fields) was applauded as a bold new approach to climate change and habitat loss, but the hope was eventually killed off by President Rafael Correa after it invoked merely $13 m (8. 3m) in donations.

Despite widespread domestic and international opponent, in 2013 Correa devoted the go ahead for drilling, although he insisted it would affect exclusively 1% of the reserve.

Killackeys film, nonetheless, suggests that development projects was long doomed: even as donations were pouring in from environmental well-wishers around the planet, petroleum firms were already moving into the area.

Killackey says that in 2012, he filmed roads has been established by Ecuadors state-run oil fellowship, Petroamazonas, between the nature reserve and Block 31, an extraction zone that is now off limits and patrolled by security guards.

The camouflage of this super cryptic Osteocephalus buckleyi allows it to fusion perfectly among the moss and lichen that envelop many of the groves trees. Photo: Ryan P. Killackey/ Pollywog Productions

In recent weeks, the first wells inside the Yasuni subjects have come into full commercial operation. According to Amazon Watch, the lubricant from the Yasuni disciplines is being pumped to California, where it is processed at US refineries. In the future, different groups expects major Chinese fellowships such as CNPC or Sinopec to connect Petroamazonas in drilling more than 200 wells.

Despite these potent pastimes, indigenous groups have slowed the expansion of the distillation manufactures into Yasuni. Killackeys film which will be shown on 13 October at the Wildscreen film gala in Bristol calls for the tribes to be given more foundation.

The film looks at a community of Waorani( likewise spelled Huaorani) in Boanamo, a remote hamlet that is two-and-a half-day boat ride away from Coca, the regional uppercase. On four extended inspects, Killackey invested close to 150 daytimes here, filming communions, family life, hunting expeditions, as well as a stunning variety of wildlife, including monstrous green anacondas, creek dolphins, rare short-eared dogs, white lipped peccaries, limbless salamanders and brilliantly coloured leaf frogs.

He too organised technical safaruss by contributing biologists. Their finds such as the discovery of several word species and fresh investigate on migratory patterns will be secreted during the upcoming screening.

I miss this to be more than a documentary. I hope the data will be used to draw attention to Yasuni and help advocate for sincere preservation that works for the benefit of indigenous people, Killackey said in a phone interview.

Killackey was first drew attention to Yasuni in 2005 by a cherish of frogs. Film-making began four years later when he was invited to Boanama and then propelled a Kickstarter campaign to document the living conditions of the people there. He has since spent close to $160,000, partly been endorsed by groups such as Yale Environment 360 and Passion Planet, but primarily from his own funds.

Over the past decade, he has pictured the oil companies move closer to Yasuni, improving roads and connections that open up new domains for land clearance, logging and the bush-meat transaction. Faced by the hasten of proliferation, local indigenous groups have maintained out for as long as they canbut are then often sucked into the devastation of their own forests.

The most isolated tribes the Tagaeri and Taromenane, who shun linked with the outside world are in theory protected by the government, but their territory has steadily contracts, which has led to increased conflict. Among the victims was one of Killackeys acquaintances, Caiga Baihua, who was bayoneted to fatality in January.

Killacky enunciates the blame lies principally with the destabilising encroachment of outside cultures and foreign business, though he is a known fact that he too is an ambassador of western prices.

I feel conflicted every day. I ever ask myself whether I will be viewed as the missionaries were. Although I was invited, I fetch cameras and tents from the outside macrocosm. When the Waorani see them, they want them too. But I have to think too about the very best that we can bring. Without a proximity here, I dont think the fib would get out. I want it to reach as wide-ranging an audience as it can.

The region is now harder for foreign correspondents and scientists to enter than it was when Killackey started filming; drilling neighborhoods are entirely closed off by private defence, the footage is now an important historical record. Killackey hopes it can also stimulate change and not just in Ecuador.

This story proceeds road beyond Yasuni. It is representative of what is happening in so many other places available in the world. As an American, Id like to see a change in the way our parties do business. We are mainly responsible for what is happening here. One of the contents to spectators is that you do have a alternative. Get improved where your petrol comes from. Reduce your footprint. Assist commodities that are more sustainable.

Its difficult to be hopeful, he speaks. But Im rosy there is still time to make a change.

Read more: www.theguardian.com

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Email from Taromenane land

Email received today from one of my sources in the jungle who has been following the local fall-out of the Newsweek article, and the government's attempts to co-opt the conversation:

"A mi lo que verdaderamente me preocupa es la situación actual. Además de los presos y la incertidumbre de los que siguen fuera. Seguimos sin un mínimo plan de paz. El Magap recien va a hacer un censo en la zona de la vía auca... ¡Otro censo! ¡llevan desde el 2009 haciendo ese ofrecimiento¡¡¡ los taromenani siguen sin estar mínimamente protegidos y los vecinos, tampoco. Siguen acá las improductivas reuniones entre ministerios y waos (el jueves acá, hoy mismo están en Miwabuno). Ahora fiscalía y gestión política (ya no Min Justicia) están enfrentadas y poniéndose cáscaras de plátano, haciendo bandos entre los waorani. A la vez, como parte de la campaña política, se recogen firmas para la explotación del ITT para contrarrestar las firmas en contra. Y están en esta semana intentando modificar la Zona Intangible para hacerla más pequeña todavía (utilizarán toda clase de argumentos, incluyendo que en alguna parte del proceso de delimitación en el 2005-2007 intervino con alguna plata para la WCS, la Usaid, es decir, el IMPERIO....), no tenemos más noticias ni de la venta de armas ni de los sobrevuelos, cosa, que por cierto, con toda la actividad última, se han multiplicado. No sé. Ahi sigue habiendo tela que cortar... y algunos reportajes..."

Translation: 

"What I am genuinely worried about is the current situation. Besides the (six) men who are now in jail and the uncertainty of those (who participated in the massacre and) are not in jail. We continue to not have even the most minimum plan for peace. The MAGAP (Ministry of Agriculture) is just now going to do a census of the Auca zone. Another census! They've been offering that since 2009!!!! The Taromenane continue to exist without the most minimum of protections, and so do their neighbours (the Huaorani).

“The unproductive meetings between ministries and Huaos continue. For example, last Thursday, right in Miwabuno. Now the Attorney General and the National Secretariat of Political Management (not the Ministry of Justice anymore) are facing off against each other and wearing helmets of banana, splitting the Huaorani and forming groups within the tribe.  At the same time, as part of the political campaign, they are collecting signatures to drill in Yasuní to counteract the signatures collected against drilling. And this week, they are trying to modify the Intangible Zone (set aside for the Taromenane) to make it smaller! (They'll use all sorts of arguments, like saying that at some point in 2005-07 when the boundaries were originally set, in some way USAID or the WCS intervened, in other words, THE EMPIRE).

"We haven't heard any more news about the sale of guns (in jungle cities) or about airplane fly-overs which, by the way, with all the activity as of late, have multiplied. I don't know. There's more cloth to cut, and some stories left to tell."