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Resource Radicals with Thea Riofrancos

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Grasrood's Power in Ecuator

Grasrood's power because of importance to the system as a whole. Oil workers literally put their bodies on the line protesting against privatization, against privately owned pipe lines. They were articulating this radical resource nationalism that really resonated among the broader population. And then over the next years, this is in the early two thousands, as we said, corea comes to power. He an prioritizes a large scale mining that opens up whole new territories to a too extractive, dispossessive didispossession and an environmental ruin.

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