We explore the tensions between Ecuador's electoral processes and the systematic silencing of the Yasuní issue in public debate, while analyzing the historic impact of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights' ruling on Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation and its implications for the closure of Block 43.
Interview with Daniel Vázquez, a UNAM researcher specializing in macrocrime networks, who offers an in-depth analysis of the relationship between extractivism and violence in Amazonian contexts, examining methodologies for understanding the criminal dynamics that emerge in megaproject territories.
We investigate the silenced pattern of Amazonian crime in the context of the oil closure, documenting the alarming 180% increase in homicides in Orellana and the 350% increase in environmental crimes, while local communities begin processes of surveillance and planting of farms for forest regeneration in a context of increasing structural violence.