Ecuador Troops Move In As Protest Hits Oil Exports

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Ecuador troops move as protest hits oil exports
By Hal Weitzman in Lima
Published: August 19 2005 08:36 | Last updated: August 19 2005 17:12

Ecuador has sent in the military to occupy its oil-rich Amazon region and declared a state of emergency after attacks on installations by community groups cut oil production by about 65 per cent.

The armed forces said on Thursday evening they had secured the eastern provinces of Orellana and Sucumbíos, which produce three-quarters of state oil production and about half of private oil production in Ecuador, in order “to guarantee the physical security of the hydrocarbons complex and the return of the flow of petrol”.

Earlier in the day, state-owned PetroEcuador, the country’s biggest producer, suspended all production after some of its installations were occupied by protesters.

EnCana of Canada shut down its output in Orellana on Wednesday. Iván Rodríguez, the energy minister, said protesters had sabotaged the company’s oil pipeline, causing about 1,000 barrels of crude to seep into the river near the town of Tarapoa, about 230km east of Quito.

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/c2fc7c2c-1083-11da-adc0-00000e2511c8.html

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1. Rumsfeld's trip to S.A. already bearing fruit

Hello, martial law.

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2. John Perkins (author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man) was in Ecuador

He writes about the work the US did to make US oil and construction companies rich and Ecudorans poor and sick in Ecuador.

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3. DUplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1711055