The Latest Tactic for Silencing Ecuador’s Environmental Defenders: Shuttering Their Bank Accounts
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As the country moves to intensify mining and oil operations, environmental and Indigenous leaders’ bank accounts are being frozen or closed. Such “debanking” cuts them off from financial support and paralyzes their work. By Katie Surma It was a sweltering January afternoon in the Amazonian town of Puyo when Andrés Tapia realized his daughter’s public […]