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Thinking about the rivers, David Fajardo remembers the immensity of the Yasuní. In particular, he has a vivid memory of frolicking on the Tiputini River. He also has in mind the lush vegetation, “a different and thick world.” For him, it is appropriate to refer to Yasuní by its name, which means "sacred land."
Since 2013, various civil organizations and indigenous comm Phone Number List unities have insisted on this popular consultation in Ecuador. To do this, they collected 720,000 signatures, but the National Electoral Council invalidated 60% of them. That blocked their request, since Ecuadorian law establishes that, for this exercise, the signatures must add up to 5% of the electoral roll.
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Fajardo explains that, after detecting irregularities by the institution, they decided to appeal the loss of their signatures and filed a series of lawsuits considering that the process was fraudulent. Finally, in 2022 it was determined that “the popular consultation for Yasuní had democratic legitimacy and that it should occur.” That's what they're about to do.
The prelude to this exercise, the activist details, is lived between political instability, an irregular election period and a security crisis in the country.
Towns in voluntary isolation
Biodiversity is not the only quality to take care of in Yasuní. Fajardo explains that the park has a shape similar to the inverted letter “C”; The upper part corresponds to the protected area and on the other shore is the intangible zone where the last indigenous groups that have decided to live in isolation in Ecuador live: the Tagaeri, Taromenane and Dugakaeri.
The little that is known about these groups is that they are semi-nomadic; They move according to the rhythms of the humid forest. "They are not aware of the political borders that the state establishes in the Amazon, they do not know that they are in an intangible area or in a national park. They are not guided, and do not have to be, by the established political limits."
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According to Ecuadorian laws, this area should not be intervened by the modern world in order to guarantee those who decided to do so maintain their isolation. Something that oil activity does not allow. Well, in addition to the platforms, multiple paths have been laid out that facilitate deforestation, fragmentation and illegal hunting. This has generated conflicts between indigenous populations. “One of the most violent was in 2013 and ended in the massacre of part of the Tagaeri people,” says Fajardo.
Due to this and other previous confrontations between the Tagaeri and Taromenane, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights has accused the Ecuadorian State of violating the rights of these indigenous communities.
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