Ecuador voted to keep oil in the ground. Will it happen?
Ecuador voted to keep oil in the ground. Will it happen?
More than 10 million Ecuadorians voted last year to ban oil operations in part of the Amazon rainforest. But heavy crude has continued to flow from the region, which is home to uncontacted Indigenous families.
No. There's no way to enforce the law. A frontrunner for President was killed in the streets of Quito not long ago and tanks were rolling through the streets when the cartels were at war. A crane operator expecting mother was killed not that long ago for operating for the wrong people.
Ecuador has given human rights to nature since 2014 or so. It's not difficult to see why it is so politically unstable. Only when global demand subsides will Ecuador be able to enforce its own democratic law.
If capitalists can't take legally, they will take illegally.
Nobody was punished for Iraq either.