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Ecuador voted to keep oil in the ground. Will it happen? (grist.org)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

No. There's no way to enforce the law. A frontrunner for President was killed in the streets of Quito not long ago and tanks were rolling through the streets when the cartels were at war. A crane operator expecting mother was killed not that long ago for operating for the wrong people.

Ecuador has given human rights to nature since 2014 or so. It's not difficult to see why it is so politically unstable. Only when global demand subsides will Ecuador be able to enforce its own democratic law.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If capitalists can't take legally, they will take illegally.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Nobody was punished for Iraq either.