- La Vía Terrateniente de Ecuador (2018):
línea histórica de las Élites Agrarias en la política ecuatoriana - Mandatory documentary watch for all scientists: published in September 09/2018: "Paywall: The Business of Scholarship": vimeo.com/273358286 |
In December 2016, the European Union concluded a free-trade agreement with Ecuador. This agreement is the product of extortion, since the EU had unilaterally cancelled its trade preferences for Ecuador after signing similar agreements with Peru and Colombia. 33% of all Ecuadorian bananas are sold in the EU nowadays, while being locally produced under the use of highly toxic, partly prohibited, pesticides. Living in the area of banana plantations, increases the risk of cancer about 13%, child deformations are 10 times more likely than in the rest of the country. Read here what the president of the Ecuadorian banana exporters has to say about it (in English): https://danwatch.dk/en/undersoegelse/formand-for-banan-eksportoerer-vi-overholder-alle-regler/
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