Antonio dreams that the land he works belongs to him, he dreams that his sweat is paid with justice and truth, he dreams that there is a school to cure ignorance and medicine to ward off death, he dreams that his house is lit and his table is full, he dreams that his land is free and that it is reason […]
With artistic interventions in Sacachún and poetry and text readings at the Farallon Dillon Inn in Ballenita, the 3rd Ancestral and Contemporary Spiritual Erotic Art Exhibition continues this Saturday the 29th and Sunday the 30th, respectively. The Sacachún community will be the third stop on the […]
BY: Diana Zavala Reyes And I, for being the first Let us sing with fullness Tonight We celebrate Saint John and the Holy Cross Tonight We celebrate Saint John and the Holy Cross More than a century ago, my maternal great-grandfather started a festival in Membrillal – Jipijapa – south of Manabí – Ecuador. The festivity […]
We denounce to the Ecuadorian people that on Saturday, September 14, 18 ENAMI trucks, accompanied by soldiers and police, began occupying the Intag area in the province of Imbabura, where farmers and residents are actively resisting large-scale open-pit mining, which they have attempted to […]
Researcher Manuel Palacios explaining a petroglyph in the province of Morona Santiago. He regularly publishes the results of his research at http://tayoscave.wordpress.com. Current scientific knowledge and the philosophical ideas we have about the world we live in are not only the product of the brilliant minds of the twentieth century but also of the contributions left by ancient cultures that served […]
From the moment the president announced the decision to exploit the Yasuní River, citizen protests across the country were swift. Thousands of images circulate daily on social media expressing this discontent. But these protests haven't been the only ones taking place on social media. Little by little, young people […]
By: Guadalupe Rodríguez (Director of Salva la Selva) The Yasuní Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon is one of the most biodiverse places in the world. Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa recently decreed oil exploitation in its last remaining corner. The harsh reality is that he has taken another step towards […]
Arturo Hortas, a Spanish documentary filmmaker, director, and singer-songwriter (Zaragoza, 35) who has already produced several documentary and research projects on the situation of the Amazonian peoples, recently visited our country to prepare his latest film about the Sarayaku people. Ballenita Sí had the pleasure of speaking with […]
The ITT is one of the largest oil extraction projects in Ecuador, coveted by multinational corporations of all stripes and origins, not only for the volume of commercially exploitable reserves (900 million barrels of crude oil), but also primarily because it is located in the heart of the Yasuní National Park, an area that would allow companies […]
"If you can't convince, confuse." This maxim of Ecuadorian politics over the years was repeated a few days ago when, in a convoluted presidential speech that mixed half-truths, "inadvertent errors," misleading figures, and even the omission of crucial information, Ecuador and the world were made aware of […]
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