Sarayacu case: Young people in Guayaquil begin to group together.

Photo: Johannes Orejuela

A group of activists, students and young people from the city of Guayaquil interested in the Sarayaku case are beginning to group together and carry out support actions, especially in terms of disseminating the current situation of the case and the possible repercussions that the ruling of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights may have in our country; because they consider that it is a situation that "affects us directly, since the land of the Sarayaku community is one of the few virgin sectors left in the jungle that has not been touched by the oil companies."

Erin Lurrain, one of the participants, believes that although there were few participants in this first action in the city of Guayaquil, the event was a success, "we were able to perceive that our Guayacan community is NOT indifferent to the painful situation in which the Amazonian people survive" and she thanked all the people who came and who were willing to inform themselves.