Climate Change
The Death Toll Is Rising from Ecuador’s Crackdown on Protesters
The unrest has been triggered, in part, by the targeting of environmental leaders whose work protects large swaths of the Amazon rainforest.
At least three people have been killed in Ecuador as the government further ramps up its use of force against Indigenous-led protests triggered in part by crackdowns on environmentalists, according to civil society and human rights groups.
The Death Toll Is Rising from Ecuador’s Crackdown on Protesters