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[-] autotldr 26 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


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.

When casting their ballots in a snap election that has been marked by the brutal assassination of a presidential candidate, a second referendum question will ask voters just in Quito whether to allow mining in the Chocó Andino, a vast area of land near the capital.

While it cited the country’s political and security risk, it also estimated a $600m fall in fiscal revenues and a 12% drop in oil output if the yes vote succeeded.

Alberto Acosta-Burneo, an economist and editor of the Weekly Analysis bulletin, said Ecuador would be “shooting itself in the foot” if it shut down the fourth oil block in Yasuní ITT.

Gualinga fought and won a case in the inter-American court of human rights in 2012 to block government-authorised oil exploration by an Argentinian company on her people’s land.


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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

I wish them the best of luck but it sickens me that we're having to vote on whether or not to destroy the ecosystem.

[-] laxe@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

The photographer for this article’s image did a very good job.

[-] FarraigePlaisteach@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

They’ve had voter turnouts of 80% there, but rises in crime and violence have also at times made it unsafe to even leave home. I hope the people of Ecuador can have their voices heard.

[-] A7thStone@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Looks like Ecuador might be in line for a little "freedom".

[-] MrAlagos@feddit.it 7 points 1 year ago

Ecuador is in a very vulnerable and dangerous situation at the moment, with three high profile political homicides in just the past few weeks and an ever increasing influence of drug cartels that are escalating violence, control and homicides to huge levels.

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