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RTL Today - Between a rock and hard place: Environmentalists dismayed by Ecuador presidential candidates

Environmentalists dismayed by Ecuador presidential candidates
Author: AFP|Update: 07.04.2021 08:35
Ecuadorans must choose between Andres Arauz (left) and Guillermo Lasso to be their next president, but environmentalists are not impressed / ©
AFP
Environmental activists will feel stuck between a rock and hard place on Sunday when forced to choose a new president.
Leftist Andres Arauz faces the right-wing Guillermo Lasso in a run-off election with both vowing to continue oil and mineral extraction, which has already devastated a sixth of Ecuador s Amazon jungle.
Ecuador remains immersed in an extractivist policy. That is to say that both candidates believe Ecuador s future is in oil and that has nothing to do with reality, Carlos Larrea, the director of the socio-environmental unit at the Simon Bolivar University, told AFP. ....

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Ecuador to elect new president in left-right battle

Ecuador to elect new president in left-right battle
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Ecuador s presidential candidates Andres Arauz (left) and Guillermo Lasso are neck and neck in opinion polls
Ecuadorans will elect their next president on Sunday with voters choosing between a young, socialist protege of ex-leader Rafael Correa and a veteran conservative as the oil-rich country contends with an economic crisis aggravated by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Opinion polls have the two contenders neck and neck in a classic left versus right battle for control of the country.
Economist Andres Arauz, 36, is virtually unknown but topped February s first round of voting on the back of support from his mentor, Correa, who led the country for 10 years. ....

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People in Peru, Ecuador vote to choose presidents

People in Peru and Ecuador head out to vote in the two countries’ presidential elections amid fears of possible low turnout due to COVID-19 pandemic. ....

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Ecuador begins electing new president in left-right battle

Ecuadorans began electing their next president on Sunday with voters choosing between a young, socialist protege of ex-leader Rafael Correa and a veteran conservative as the oil-rich country contends with an economic crisis aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic. ....

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