Due to a loophole that is actually a legal one, there are companies that are establishing their own plantations on ancestral lands, or smaller communities in Ecuador. Because of this the surrounding communities have come together to tell the companies that they are polluting the water and the ground in the surrounding areas. As retaliation, the community staged protests on the roads to the plantations to either slow down their production line or get them to leave.
Key Takeaways:
- A loophole let companies in Ecuador make plantations on ancestral lands.
- The community states that there is waste that is polluting the land and water
- The residents have been occupying the road in hopes to slow down or stop the companies.
“San Javier de Cachaví is a small village of some 120 families in Ecuador near the Colombian border.”
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