Ecuador

Can Rafael Correa deliver his citizens’ revolution for Ecuador?

The president still faces tough challenges in modernising the economy and overcoming an intractable colonial legacy  Boaventura de Sousa Santos   The Guardian, Thursday 29 May 2014 11.34 EDT Go to original Leftwing Latin American intellectuals have made two...

Ecuador’s Campaign: “The Dirty Hand of Chevron”

Truthout Wednesday, 25 September 2013 09:49 By Sally Burch, Truthout | Op-Ed Ecuador’s president has launched a call for people around the world to boycott Chevron products, in rejection of the company’s evasion of responsibility for oil contamination in the Amazon...

Oil showdown in the Amazon

There is one area of the Ecuadorian Amazon that is so pristine that the whole ecosystem has been preserved and even jaguars roam free! But the government is now threatening to go in and drill for oil. The local indigenous people have been resisting, but they are...