China has methodically gone through Latin American dumping money into economy and now it is back to collect.
2005-12-11 04:00:00 PDT
Taracoa, Ecuador
On the porch (click here) of an Amazonian village store, a shirtless man flicks a rag at flies.
"Does Maruja Garrido live here?" we ask.
No answer. He raises his eyes, then flicks his rag again.
A woman in a pink dress appears beside him. "Yes?" she asks warily, peering at us, two foreigners.
"We're looking for Maruja Garrido," I say quickly. "We're journalists, looking to interview people who have cancer." Photographer Lou Dematteis and I had just come from the village health center where a doctor had given us her name.
The woman's eyes moisten. She hesitates. We wait. Then she motions to her teenage daughter to fetch two plastic chairs, and we are invited to sit on the porch....
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Why does it matter to the USA? Climate, of course, but, it is opportunistic 'near shore' National Security problems.
The United Nations has an obligation as well. These are indigenous peoples now threatened with losing their lands.
Petroleum products are every bit the immoral plague it promises to be.
Indigenous groups claim they have not consented to oil projects, as politicians visit Beijing to publicise bidding process (click here)
Jonathan Kaiman
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
...According to the California-based NGO Amazon Watch, seven indigenous groups who inhabit the land claim that they have not consented to oil projects, which would devastate the area's environment and threaten their traditional way of life....
Basically, the Ecuadorian government went ahead and played with the 'idea' of exploiting lands where they should not have. Their land use should never have included the indigenous people. Literally, the Ecuadorian government over extended their ability to exploit natural resources to obtain monies for their people. Literally, they can destroy the land to the point where it loses sovereignty for citizens to live there. Ecuador could become a Chinese province if the people are driven from the land for oil exploitation.
The previous episode noted in the article from 2005 where the citizens on the land were completely disregarded when the oil companies from the USA embarked on their drilling venture is an EXAMPLE to the extent the government never bothered to value their people.
The argument can always be made the Ecuadorian government was naive about the outcomes with the USA companies, but, it can't say that now.
Basically, the Ecuadorian government has to be reviewed to their dedication to the citizen. They could be considered a hostile regime based in capitalism.
China has the same paradigm. Their capitalism overrides the health of the citizen, the stability of the land and its resources providing constant conflicts of interest. The air quality in China's cities is horrible. We are even seeing this trend in the USA with hydraulic fracturing and the devaluing of the citizen over the demands of capitalism. If land is uninhabitable there is no sovereignty of the citizens.
We all know that abandoned lands are eventually occupied by the poor and disenfranchised. Their longevity is always less in comparison to other citizens in the same country.
Where the petroleum interests of the planet exist there is pure disregard for human life. There are episodes like this throughout the history of the petroleum industry, some of the worst occurred and still occurs in Africa / Nigeria. The list goes on...
The map above continues to illustrate the insult to the peoples of Latin America. The Daily Kos has had this as a focus. (click here)
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Why does it matter to the USA? Climate, of course, but, it is opportunistic 'near shore' National Security problems.The United Nations has an obligation as well. These are indigenous peoples now threatened with losing their lands.
Petroleum products are every bit the immoral plague it promises to be.
Indigenous groups claim they have not consented to oil projects, as politicians visit Beijing to publicise bidding process (click here)
Jonathan Kaiman
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
...According to the California-based NGO Amazon Watch, seven indigenous groups who inhabit the land claim that they have not consented to oil projects, which would devastate the area's environment and threaten their traditional way of life....
The country is not that big. There won't be land enough to support the populous soon.
The color map below is where oil blocks exist and where the indigenous lands exist. It looks as though a lot of the dealings of the Ecuador government when it comes to human rights falls into the conflict of the citizen and their right to land to live vs that or exploitative capitalism.
The color map below is where oil blocks exist and where the indigenous lands exist. It looks as though a lot of the dealings of the Ecuador government when it comes to human rights falls into the conflict of the citizen and their right to land to live vs that or exploitative capitalism.
land: 276,841 sq km
water: 6,720 sq km
note: includes Galapagos Islands
Basically, the Ecuadorian government went ahead and played with the 'idea' of exploiting lands where they should not have. Their land use should never have included the indigenous people. Literally, the Ecuadorian government over extended their ability to exploit natural resources to obtain monies for their people. Literally, they can destroy the land to the point where it loses sovereignty for citizens to live there. Ecuador could become a Chinese province if the people are driven from the land for oil exploitation.
The previous episode noted in the article from 2005 where the citizens on the land were completely disregarded when the oil companies from the USA embarked on their drilling venture is an EXAMPLE to the extent the government never bothered to value their people.
Basically, the Ecuadorian government has to be reviewed to their dedication to the citizen. They could be considered a hostile regime based in capitalism.
China has the same paradigm. Their capitalism overrides the health of the citizen, the stability of the land and its resources providing constant conflicts of interest. The air quality in China's cities is horrible. We are even seeing this trend in the USA with hydraulic fracturing and the devaluing of the citizen over the demands of capitalism. If land is uninhabitable there is no sovereignty of the citizens.
We all know that abandoned lands are eventually occupied by the poor and disenfranchised. Their longevity is always less in comparison to other citizens in the same country.
Where the petroleum interests of the planet exist there is pure disregard for human life. There are episodes like this throughout the history of the petroleum industry, some of the worst occurred and still occurs in Africa / Nigeria. The list goes on...
