Squelching and Environmental Referendum

ECUADOR - Report 23 May 2014 by Magdalena Barreiro

Executive Summary This year hasn’t started off well, for either the govenrment or its citizens. The government was stung by its party’s lackluster victories in local elections, and for the first time in seven years must cope with dwindling funds. And citizens concerned about the evironmmental effects of oil drilling in the Yasuni ITT camps saw their very popular referendum initiative crushed. After President Rafael Correa dropped his plan to keep the oil of the Yasuni IIT camps underground, and proposed drilling, many voices rose demanding a referendum, to decide the future of the most dive...

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