Ecuador Is Suspending the Bank Accounts of Environmental Activists
Ecuador Is Suspending the Bank Accounts of Environmental Activists
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Ecuador Is Suspending the Bank Accounts of Environmental Activists
“Debanking” is the government’s newest weapon of repression against environmental leaders and anti-mining advocates.
cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/201550
It was a sweltering January afternoon in the Amazonian town of Puyo when Andrés Tapia realized his daughter’s public school fees were due. Like many Ecuadorians, he reached for his phone to make a mobile transfer. Carrying cash is too risky these days. Ecuador is in the grip of an ongoing security crisis, with transnational criminal organizations spilling in from neighboring Colombia and…
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