Ecuador: 1 dead, at least 49 wounded in protest

[Bacchus39]

Source: AP

QUITO, Ecuador – Police clashed with Amazon Indians protesting proposed water, oil and mining laws Wednesday, leaving one Indian dead and 40 police and nine Indians wounded, Ecuadorean officials said. Indians said two civilians were killed.

The clash took place on the Upano River in Ecuador's southeastern Morona Santiago jungle province where Indian groups have been blocking roads this week.

President Rafael Correa blamed the Indians for the bloodshed and repeated his call for dialogue to resolve Indians' complains about the legislation..

"Tremendously violent groups armed with shotguns and rifles waited for police and received them with gunshots," Correa said in a late news conference. "For this violent act we today must lament the death of a brother Ecuadorean."



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091001/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_ecuador_indian_protest

[truedelphi]

1. I have met several different members of tribal peoples from the Ecuador basin

Most heart-open people you can imagine.

And just as the President of Peru laid the blame on his need to kill the Peruvian indigenous peoples last July (An event overshadowed by the happenings in Iran at the same time) so now the President of Ecuador blames these people. They are the polluters, who have to go. (HINT: think sarcasm.) Not the Big Oil Companies. The indigenous peoples. (That churning in my stomach makes me think it is good that neither of those Presidents will be poking their sorry asses in this bedorrom in the next hour. I'd make mince meat of them, I would.)

Same as it ever was. (I am beginning to think we need to abolish the Office of Presidency world wide. The world is run by the Powers that be. Why do we need these sold-out middle men?)

[Zorro]

2. Uh oh

Why are the right-wing fascist Indians protesting brother Correa's leftist agenda?