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 […]
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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 […]
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: […]
Drawing made by a child of the Ecuadorian Amazon Towards the end of last year, the former Minister of Non-Renewable Resources, Wilson Pastor, announced in a press conference that among the companies interested in participating in the current bidding round for the blocks in the southern Ecuadorian Amazon were Petrominerales, Pacific Rubiales, and […]
The Ecuadorian government must do more to protect the human rights of Indigenous peoples (in this case, the Kichwa people of Sarayaku) if it intends to fully comply with an international court ruling, Amnesty International said. Just a year ago, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) ruled that Ecuador […]
In the Kichwa Indigenous People of Sarayaku, "People of Midday," Pachamama Uyanza is celebrated every year in May. This celebration is held in gratitude for the bounty of the earth, the Kawsak Sacha – Living Forest, and the protective beings who maintain the harmony of the […]
The lives of isolated Indigenous people, the most vulnerable within a historically sensitive and abandoned region, have returned to existence in the Ecuadorian and global imagination only through their deaths. Is it possible for us, as an organized society, to confront these situations and prevent their extinction? We firmly affirm that it is possible to do so […]
The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon (CONFENIAE), in response to the events that have occurred between our brothers and sisters of the Waorani Nationality and the Tagaeri and Taromenane Peoples, expresses its concern about the harassment that we indigenous peoples suffer in the territory that gives us life and urges the Ecuadorian State to implement the […]
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