On Aug. 15, Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa announced his government’s abandonment of the Yasuni-ITT Initiative, the innovative attempt to reverse the economic arrangement of oil extraction in the Amazon by keeping the oil in the soil in exchange for international assistance.
[source: http://ecowatch.com/2013/ecuador-abandons-plan-to-leave-oil-in-amazon/]
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