Sabotage and terrorism was the formula used by Rafael Correa to silence the voices of protest, without any questions from human rights organizations, the Office of the Ombudsman and even worse from the Constitutional Court, proof for the song:

In the book ill-fated revolutions, by Mónica Almeida and Ana Karina López, point out: “Official arrows were aimed against the prefect of Orellana, Guadalupe Llori Abarca (Pachakutik). ‘Terrorism and sabotage’ were the crimes chosen by Carondelet, protected by an emergency decree, to become the protagonist of the violence. She arrived in Quito in the first week of December 2007, hand and foot shackled; a violent image that the country is not used to. A ‘crazy and crazy old woman’, according to Correa, spent nine months in prison, she did not benefit from the amnesty of the Constituent Assembly that was given to the other detainees of Dayuma”.

It is forbidden to forget!

In December 2018, a fragment of the Truth and Justice Commission report says: “A repressive state. The constitution of an authoritarian state has its precedents in the actions of militarization and repression against the inhabitants of Dayuma in 2007, in accusations of sabotage, terrorism and arrests of defenders of nature, human rights and social activists, in the cities of Nabón and Tenguel, in 2008; as in Molletur, San Miguel de Conchay, Cotopaxi, Morona Santiago, in 2009, the year in which indigenous leader and teacher Bosco Wizuma, the first fatality of Correa’s government, was killed amid state repression.”

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“Since 2010, new companies have entered, one from Ecuador: Empresa Nacional de Minería, Enami, and National Copper Corporation, Codelco, Chile. The community demanded that prior consultations be carried out to allow for research, as required by the Constitution. In order to break the resistance – according to those who appeared at the hearing – the main leaders of the community were identified through the secretary for intelligence Senain, and then criminal proceedings were initiated for which they were deprived of their liberty. In the Intag case, three leaders: Javier Ramírez, Silvia Quimbango and Marcela Méndez were accused of “terrorism and sabotage”.

Rafael Correa is convinced that his sentence will “fall” when the Civil Revolution comes to power, according to an interview with the newspaper El País

(…) It has its history in actions of militarization and repression against the inhabitants of Dayuma…

Peruvian news agency servindi, identified with indigenous movements, published a report on June 30, 2010 entitled “In repressive escalation, Correa accuses indigenous leaders of being terrorists”. “According to the Imbabura prosecutor’s office, the main people involved in the riots are leaders Marlon Santi, president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie); Delfín Tenesaca, president of Ecuarunari; and Marco Guatemal, President of the Indigenous and Peasant Federation of Imbabura (FICI)”.

“In 2013, indigenous leaders Patricia Gualinga, Nemo Grefa and Margot Escobar, among others, were charged with terrorism and sabotage.”

Because drug-criminal groups have been identified as terrorists, organizations that participated in silence are now crying out to the heavens. (OR)