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Este mes de agosto representa una ventana crítica: ahora o nunca
Salva la Selva está circulando dos peticiones fundamentales en la defensa de los ecosistemas amazónicos, de los derechos humanos, de la justicia climática y de la democracia ambiental en América Latina.
1. “Brasil: Presidente Lula, use su veto — Detenga la Ley de Devastación”
Va dirigida al presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, solicitando que vete total o parcialmente el proyecto de ley PL 2159/2021 (conocido como “Ley de Devastación”), que fue aprobada por el Parlamento brasileño el 17 de julio de 2025 y debilita gravemente los permisos y controles ambientales .
Lula cuenta con un plazo de 15 días hábiles para ejercer su derecho de veto (es decir, hasta el 8 de agosto según las noticias que tenemos), lo que hace que la campaña en este mes esté siendo absolutamente crítica.
2. “Todas las miradas en la Amazonía: exige el fin de la explotación petrolera en el Yasuní ¡ahora!”
Dirigida a la Corte Constitucional del Ecuador con el objetivo de exigir que ordene que se cumpla el mandato de la consulta popular del 20 de agosto de 2023, que ordenó detener la extracción petrolera en el Bloque 43 y proceder al desmantelamiento de la infraestructura petrolera con urgencia.
Aunque esa consulta fue vinculante, el gobierno ha propuesto un retraso de más de cinco años, lo cual contraviene la resolución constitucional que exige una ejecución en hasta un año .
Necesitamos que esta petición alcance y movilice al máximo durante este mes de agosto, para ejercer presión a punto de cumplirse dos años de la consulta popular en defensa del Yasuní.
#Petición #PeticiónSalvaLaSelva #Brasil #Yasuní #LeiDeDevastaçao #Ecuador #Amazonía #DerechosDeLaNaturaleza #InfórmateFirmaDifunde
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#Indigenous Leader #NemonteNenquimo on Fight to Defend #Ecuador’s Ban on Future #Amazon #OilExtraction
via #DemocracyNow, November 29, 2024
"In Part 2 of our special broadcast, we look at a recent victory for Indigenous communities in Ecuador, where people overwhelmingly voted to approve a referendum last year banning future oil extraction in a biodiverse section of the Amazon’s Yasuní National Park — a historic referendum result that will protect Indigenous Yasuní land from development. But the newly elected president, Daniel Noboa, has said Ecuador is at war with gang violence and that the country is 'not in the same situation as two years ago.' Noboa has said oil from the Yasuní National Park could help fund that war against drug cartels. Environmental activists and Indigenous peoples say they’re concerned about his comments because their victory had been hailed as an example of how to use the democratic process to leave fossil fuels in the ground. 'Amazonian women are at the frontlines of defense,' says Nemonte Nenquimo, an award-winning Waorani leader in the Ecuadorian Amazon who co-founded Amazon Frontlines and the Ceibo Alliance. Her recent piece for The Guardian is headlined 'Ecuador’s president won’t give up on oil drilling in the Amazon. We plan to stop him — again.' Nemonte has just published her new memoir titled We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People. We also speak with her co-author and partner, Mitch Anderson, who is the founder and executive director of Amazon Frontlines and has long worked with Indigenous nations in the Amazon to defend their rights."
Watch / listen / read transcript:
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/11/29/indigenous_leader_nemonte_nenquimo_on_fight#ViewerSupportedNews #AmazonRiverBasin #WaterIsLife #LandDefenders #Yasuní #Waorani #IndigenousPeople #YasuníNationalPark #EnvironmentalActivists #WeWillBeJaguars #BigOil #CorporateColonialism #AmazonFrontlines #CeiboAlliance #Biodiversity
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Citizens of #Ecuador voted this week to halt the development of oil drilling in the #Yasuní national park in the #Amazon, the Guardian reported.
In what Climate Home News described as a “first of its kind” referendum, the Ecuadorian public voted 59%-41% to #ban #oil #exploitation in “one of the largest biodiversity hotspots on the planet”, which is “home to Indigenous people in voluntary isolation”.
OIL STAY PUT: The result will require #Petroecuador, Ecuador’s state-owned oil company, to close all of its active oil wells and remove all infrastructure from a portion of the national park within a year, reported Axios.
Petroecuador produces nearly 60,000 barrels a day from its current operations in the park, noted the Hill.
The advocacy group Amazon Watch said the decision would “permanently keep an estimated 1bn barrels of oil in the ground”.
SETTING AN EXAMPLE
The Spanish-language online magazine Climática reported that ethnic groups #Waorani, #Kichwa and #Shuar considered the referendum a victory and campaigners said that it was the first time Ecuador had “decided to defend life and leave the oil in the ground”.
Brazil’s civil-society organisations said they expected their country to follow Ecuador’s example, Brazilian newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo reported.
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Ecuadorians have approved ending #oil exploitation in Block 43, overlapping with the megabiodiverse #Yasuni National Park, home to #Waorani #indigenous people.
Early results show 59% support for the referendum, completing a decade-long campaign to end oil development in the area.
Fmr president Rafael Correa had proposed that wealthy countries should pay Ecuador to preserve the park, but now the country's citizens have done so on their own.
https://www.larepublica.ec/blog/2023/08/20/el-si-gana-ampliamente-en-la-consulta-del-yasuni-itt/
https://www.nytimes.com/es/2023/08/17/espanol/ecuador-consulta-yasuni.html
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@analogfilmcuba
Alicia Cawiya comes from the Waorani community of Ñoneno, one of the most remote communities in Ecuador and has resisted oil exploitation for many years. Her grandmother, Iteca, was a feared Waorani warrior.
When Cawiya was a child, she was sent to be raised by missionaries, who were tasked with "civilizing the barbarians." Her grandmother later carried her back into the jungle.
On October 3, 2013, the Constituent Assembly of Ecuador met in Quito to discuss the Yasuni-ITT plan. Cawiya was invited to participate as Vice President of the Waorani Nation of Ecuador, and was expected to read the script handed to her by her President, Chief Moi Enomenga.
The speech was about oil exploration in her homeland at the head of the Amazon River. When Cawiya stood up to speak, she challenged the president and government and made her own speech, denouncing oil companies and speaking in defense of her people.
After her speech, Cawiya received death threats, though this didn't deter her activism.
Today Huella continues to defend her community as leader of the Waorani
Nationality of Ecuador.
#ecuador #amazonia #yasuni #oil #Indigenousrights #itt #waorani