Ecuador: Terror and Violence Threatens Positive Ecosocial Legacy

Ecuador: Terror and Violence Threatens Positive Ecosocial Legacy

Ecuador has inspired the world. It was the first country to enshrine the rights of Nature in the constitution as a response to ecological breakdown. It also oriented its constitution toward buen vivir, an understanding of a good life with indigenous roots that is based on balance, reciprocity, and the quality of relations instead of unlimited expansion and appropriation. The tiny South American country even had the guts to conduct an official au…