That said, if the move is effecting alot of people as you say, then the goal must be to ensure  the government finds a healthy balance. Is it possible to find one without Ecuador being gutted and sold for temporary gains?

So many governments and corporations around the world desparately scream NO, while insisting that any movement towards a YES answer is nothing short of madness. But it’s not. In fact, it’s completely rational, however challenging it is and “radical” it may seem to be… Some day it will be seen as self-evident.

Until then, we struggle.

Now, the tyrannical government of ecuador along with his “Constituent Assembly”, with all the concentrated powers (more like a Dictatorship rather than a Democracy), has revoked all mining concessions and stopped all mining process. It is true that many things were unclear in a lot of contracts, due to corruption in past governments, but, is this really the answer? It is correct to close the door to foreign investment, in a new attack against legal security in ecuador? is it OK to close the door to developement and progress, for some political decision in order to gain votes and mantain popularity among all this blind people, who keeps applauding his actions as nacional economy and social levels keeps falling down? What about the consequent unemployment of so many people, entire families dependent of mining? Who is going to take care of them? Where’s the social responsability of this “Government”??
 
Another question: who chose to the Constituent Assembly to legislating? This Assembly was chosen to drafts the new constitution, and only this.
Maybe some day when more abuses occur (and this WILL happen), and maybe when we are directly and personally affected, we may open our eyes and see the tyranny and arrogance of which we are victims… before it’s too late.

About the Canadian Stock Exchange,is there any chance you are referring to this? If not, you may still find that useful….

Take Care Carlos, and if you ever come across something that you want help getting the word out on, please don’t hesitate to contact me or post a comment here.

Respectfully,
A

If we can sustain the energy at the Assembly level where the country’s new constitution is being drafted, one of these days a historian or sociologist will look back on this triumph as a major turning point in the giveaway of the South’s natural resources to the economies and companies of the North. A lot is at stake right now at the Constitutional Assembly, and the companies are spending a lot of money trying to lobbying it; but in a sense the excess is starting to backfire.

If I was to be asked what was the single most important event to bring Ascendant’s downfall, I’d have to say it was the imbecilic use of the paramilitaries in December of 2006 against the communities, their capture by the communities of Intag, and that it was captured on film and still digital and broadcasted to the rest of the world. There are countless human rights abuses committed by these arrogant transnationals- few times they’ve so well documented. The next step is suing the bastards in their backyard- as well as the mechanism that makes all this social havoc feasible- the Canadian Stock Exchanches…. so, keep tuned!!

Carlos Zorrilla
INTAG, ECUADOR