Este número aborda la disputa geopolítica por el Yasuní, donde convergen intereses petroleros de China, que busca asegurar suministros energéticos en la Amazonía ecuatoriana, y de Estados Unidos, que propone instalar bases militares en Ecuador. A dos años del referéndum histórico donde el 57% de ecuatorianos votó por dejar el petróleo bajo tierra, el gobierno ha cerrado apenas 10 de 247 pozos activos, incumpliendo el mandato popular. La edición presenta una entrevista con el activista nigeriano Nnimmo Bassey, quien vincula extractivismo con colonialismo y propone que la reparación territorial debe incluir auditorías independientes, descontaminación, restauración ecológica-cultural y justicia epistémica, promoviendo la «Yasunización del mundo» como estrategia global anticolonial. Finalmente, denuncia la represión militar contra la comunidad Waorani de Mintaro en septiembre de 2025, con detenciones arbitrarias durante protestas, evidenciando la criminalización de la resistencia indígena en defensa de sus territorios ancestrales.

We analyze the worrying pace of oil decommissioning in the Yasuní region, where only 10 of 247 wells have been closed since the 2023 Popular Consultation, while the government signs new drilling contracts that threaten the territories of the Tagaeri and Taromenane peoples in voluntary isolation, in contradiction to the popular mandate and the recent landmark ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

Interview with Eduardo Góes Neves, archaeologist and professor at the University of São Paulo, who reveals how archaeological evidence demonstrates that Amazonian Indigenous peoples not only inhabited these territories for millennia but also created the forest we know today, challenging the narratives of scarcity that underpin extractivism and offering keys to imagining regenerative infrastructure in the face of the climate crisis.

NAWE denounced the serious violations of the rights of uncontacted peoples by a U.S. foundation attempting to establish direct contact, highlighting how the lack of territorial control allows for outside interference that jeopardizes the survival of these peoples in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

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.

In this edition, we analyze the impact of the permanent change in the water cycle on a global scale and examine the results of the recent COP in Baku, whose development has become a symbol of the lack of decisive responses to the climate crisis, drawing parallels with the Yasuní case.

Interview with Tom Mitro, an oil exploitation expert with more than four decades of experience, who offers a detailed analysis of the report published by the CEVP-ITT (Yasuní Popular Will Execution Committee – ITT).

Larry Lohman, of the Corner House organization, shares a story that narrates how capital metaphorically roams the world's forests, while we address the worrying situation of recent threats against Indigenous leaders of the Yasuní peoples.

We address the multidimensional crisis facing Ecuador through an interview with Marcelo Calazans, a prominent Brazilian environmentalist. Calazans offers a profound reflection on the challenges posed by petrocapitalism and analyzes how the Yasuní and the Waorani people are inspiring a new process of post-oil civilization.

We highlight the participation of Dr. Ramiro Ávila, lawyer and former constitutional judge, in the International Summit for the Yasuní. In his remarks, Ávila presented an update on two key legal processes related to Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation (PIAV): the protection of the Amazon and the Popular Consultation.

The newsletter also includes a detailed infographic on the closure and abandonment process of the Yasuní ITT field, prepared in collaboration with Engineer Fernando Reyes, a renowned expert on oil exploitation in Ecuador.

Interview with Laura Rival, distinguished anthropologist and professor at the University of Oxford. A specialist in Waorani culture and Amerindian concepts of nature and society, Rival is noted for her extensive academic career as a member of the Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests (OCTF) and the Oxford Biodiversity Institute (BIO), in addition to her role as editor of Tipití and her participation in the editorial boards of various academic publications.

Her career includes a stay as a Visiting Research Fellow at the prestigious Collège de France, as well as valuable work as a consultant for international development agencies and as an expert reviewer for the French Institute of Biodiversity and the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.