A people in Ecuador resists oil extractivism – Rebelion

“A village populated by irreducible Gauls resists, still and as always, the invader.” –Asterix, El Galo In Sarayaku, four communities of a small town, located in the vast Amazon, resist, still and as always, the oil invader. With just over a thousand inhabitants protect their territory from state-sponsored oil legions. They are decades of struggle. They are always unequal. They are burdened with much creativity and nourished by a magical potion …

The MoCaSE, Campesino Movement of Santiago del Estero, is a social and political organization that fights for the defense of property over its lands, its way of life and against extractivism. For several years it offers a program of experiential internships, which consists of a journey within its community to know the organization. “For us the experiential internships were built from being organized and thinking of having an exchange between the…