Author: Dr. Maximiliano Moreno
In 1968 came the first Agrarian Reform Law. Norteaamericana was an initiative in order to stop communism in Latin America, which had gained a foothold in Cuba and aroused sympathy for the death of Che Guevara.
This law gave the right of possession to the peons on the plantations were huasipungos and those who were in possession of land. The reaction was invasion of farms by the Indians in the Sierra, colonization worthless land in the Amazon and the appropriation of large tracts of land for banana cultivation and plantations or shrimp on the coast.
When the crisis came out of bananas by the American company United Fruit and Standard Fruit, which arrived in 1948, fleeing hurricanes and created conflicts in Central America and Colombia, where civil wars and generated massacres, creating the famous "banana republics", calilficativo that had the Latin American country, where some dictators and murderers of their people, favored conditions for the rapid enrichment of the company's former officers of the Central Intelligence United States through the production of tropical fruits.
At that time, large tracts of land that had been invaded by small banana, went into collapse, allowing the expansion of cattle ranchers and loggers, they found forests, earnings and labor for nothing.
Fearing the spread of communism had succeeded in freeing Cuba from the American mafia, which controlled the country and had managed to influence the U.S. government to finance the campaign of John F. Kennedy, the U.S. created the Alliance for Progress, which sought a religious colonization of Latin America by Protestant doctrines and Agrarian Reform, which turned the peasantry into small landowners, so that private property, whether the brakes on state ownership of land, which proposed Fidel Castro.
The presence and heroic death of Che Guevara in Bolivia, the crisis of Soviet missiles in Cuba, joined the war in Vietnam, enmacipación processes of African and Arab countries, after which support was Soviet Union, strongly influenced the peasants and Indians in the Sierra, supported the evangelists, and the Peace Corps invaded farms, this would be added later, the Liberation Theology of Bishop Proaño, which changed the tone to use the struggle for land as the axis of crystallization of a process of developing the indigenous power resulted in the CONAIE.
evangelicals in the Amazon, the Summer Institute of Linguistics and the Peace Corps, supported colonization for the oil companies and to relieve the tension generated great poverty in the Sierra, backed by the army, determined to create so-called live borders to keep out of Peru.
This process of land occupation, especially in the Coast wilderness, Amazon and the highlands, has been the main cause of environmental damage and great loss of biodiversity, which has made Ecuador into a grazing country. More than six million cattle, which occupy a huge area, especially in tropical areas, where each animal used per day at least one hectare. It appeared
"land hunger", which is based on the law recognizing the property worked as pastures, this has been the mechanism for generating almost unproductive land and semi-desert, which spreads rapidly to affect ecosystem ; irreversibly and have served for the expansion of African palm industry, the teak, eucalyptus, bananas at the expense of losing our gene banks in the century in which biodiversity and genetics are the key to development.
The work of our volunteers must be to help save wildlife areas, teaching people to respect them, and convert to natural areas in economic resources through tourism, research, capture international and national funding to protect forests and species, as an alternative for young people who are not going to touch a ground surface to allow for a decent existence by breaking with their relatives after the death of their parents.
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