Issue 413 of New Internationalist
Reader-owned global journalism
July 2008
July 2008
Ecuadorian leader Rafael Correa has said that his government is prepared not to extract oil from Yasuní National Park, a part of the Amazon rainforest - if Ecuador is compensated by the international community by at least $350 million per annum for the next 10 years.
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Endgame in the Amazon
Is Ecuador’s bold proposal not to exploit a billion barrels of oil in the Yasuní National Park a serious option for combating...
Killer of Sheep
A beautifully composed episodic study of Stan, a slaughterhouse worker, his family, friends and community.
Toxic blocks
No-one said oil was clean. But Ecuador’s experience of extracting fossil fuels is about as bad as it gets, reports *David Ransom...
Couscous (La Graine et Le Mulet)
*Kechiche*, like Fatih Akin, the Turkish-German film-maker, shows us how the lives of migrants and their children straddle...
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