Ecuador shuts down nonprofit environmental group
President Rafael Correa's government has shut down a nonprofit environmental group that opposes Amazon rainforest oil drilling, alleging it was involved in disturbing public order.
The closure Wednesday is the first of an advocacy group by Correa's government, which has been criticized as hostile to free expression and has broadened state authority over nonprofits by decree this year.
More than a dozen government agents descended unannounced on the Quito offices of the Pachamama Foundation and shut it down.
"We consider it an act of violence," foundation director Belen Paez said. "That is not how one notifies a legally constituted organization that it is being shut down."
http://news.yahoo.com/ecuador-shuts-down-nonprofit-environmental-group-200905676--finance.html
Guess this is an example of how a progressive leftist government in South America operates.
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