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June 6, 2012

"Ecuador expects support from the international community."

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Cofan indigenous women stand near a pool of oil in Ecuador's Amazonian region, Oct. 20, 2005. Ecuador's President Rafael Correa has sided squarely with the 30,000 plaintiffs, Indians and colonists, in a class-action suit, dubbed an Amazon Chernobyl by environmentalists, over the slow poisoning of a Rhode Island-sized expanse of rainforest with millions of gallons of oil and billions more of toxic wastewater. (ddp images/AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
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"We are prepared to not tap the biggest natural oil reserve in the world in order to preserve biological diversity. In return, Ecuador expects support from the international community."

Nidia Isabel Valencia, Ecuador

Editor: Helen Whittle

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