Ecuador: Victory For Uncontacted Tribes As Oil Drilling Blocked In Historic Referendum

In a historic referendum, people in Ecuador have voted to block oil drilling on uncontacted tribes’ land in the Yasuní National Park. Leonidas Iza, President of Ecuador’s national Indigenous organization CONAIE , said today: 'The Ecuadorian ...

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