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 […]
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) urged its member states to guarantee full respect for the human rights of indigenous peoples of the Americas on the occasion of their international day, August 9. The IACHR called for "full respect for the human rights of indigenous peoples […]
Nearly 500 archaeological artifacts, currently being studied at the National Institute of Cultural Heritage to determine if they are original, were confiscated on August 7 by the National Police's Specialized Unit for the Investigation of Crimes Against Cultural Heritage. The 469 artifacts were found in an apartment in the citadel […]
The UN (United Nations, of which Ecuador is a member) commemorates this August 9th the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples with a strong call to states to comply with existing agreements and commitments with these communities. In fact, the 2013 theme is "Indigenous Peoples Building Alliances: […]
By: Peter Smith Machalilla National Park is part of Ecuador's National Parks network. Located in the province of Manabí, in the northern part of the Spondylus Route, it is the only coastal national park and one of its objectives is to help protect one of the most endangered tropical forests in […]
A couple traveling by car, lost in Ballenita, asks, "Which way to Esmeraldas?"; bewildered travelers who had passed through Santa Elena minutes earlier arrive in La Libertad wondering, "How long until we get to the Sumpa Lovers Museum?"; an entire family arrives in Sacachún and […]
When paleontological fossils were found in Tanque Loma near Quebrada Seca in La Libertad on November 2, 2003, one of the most talked-about myths of decades, that of the Sumpa Giants, began to be clarified. What had been presumed for some years, that is, the existence of […]
A short list of "inconvenient truths" about SUSTAINABILITY, which, although known by many, are expressed by very few. Knowing and accepting them can lead us toward better behavior as a human collective. Only those inhabitants of the planet who lead unsustainable lifestyles care about becoming more sustainable. In many cases, those who have […]
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