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Summer 2022: Crisis averted?
After 17 days and over 14,000 people participating, the protests were called off in July of 2022 (Sands, 2022).
"We have achieved the supreme value to which we all aspire: peace in our country," said the conservative president Guillermo Lasso (Sands, 2022).
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Just like in 2011, when Chevron was ordered to pay billions, it remains to be seen whether Lasso will uphold his promises.
In September of 2022, at the end of a lengthy negotiation, Lasso agreed to stop approving new oil and mining projects on indigenous people’s lands, including archaeological zones and areas under environmental protection (Valencia, 2022).
