This Week On Americas Now:
Illegal Mining in the Rainforests of Ecuador

This article was originally published on Context A year after Ecuador voted in a historic…

This article was published by The Guardian on 16 June 2024 In 2019 I helped lead a movement that…

The Indigenous campaigner won a historic legal victory to protect Waorani land in the Amazon rainforest. Now she has written a groundbreaking memoir

As Ecuador faces economic and security crises, the oil industry and its supporters in government are pushing to disregard the vote to indefinitely stop drilling in Yasuni National Park.

Someone recently asked me why it was important to protect the Amazon rainforest from oil
drilling. The question made me angry. Can you imagine

This story was originally published in El Pais. ___ The Siekopai people will finally be…