The aim of the encuentro was to try to counter the ambiguity of the Ecuador president Correa who in 2007 has offered a plan that Ecuador will not allow extraction of the ITT oil fields in Yasuní, if the “world community” can create a compensation trust to leave the oil permanently in the ground and fund Ecuador’s “sustainable development” into the future. Excerpt from a longer piece by Massimo de Angelis , on the occasion of a trip in Ecuador, and the opposition of the Yasuni people against oil drilling, in which he also gives details about the spiritual underpinnings of their struggle : “I am in Ecuador at the moment, where I arrived with my family 6 days ago for a three months trip in Latin America.

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