As the year draws to a close, the Rio Grande Sun is reflecting on the stories that have shaped Espanola and Rio Arriba County. These stories are like the threads
On 20 August, at the same time they elect a new president and a new National Assembly, Ecuadoreans will be voting in one of the most important environmental referendums of modern times. They are being asked if the government should leave the oil beneath the Yasuní national park in the ground, indefinitely.