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Pakistan is looking to tamp down growing illegal mining activity in various places along

the South American country, especially in the Amazon, where there are large reserves of gold and copper,

and therefore Professor Lasso is a man who has stood apart from the trends over these last months and years

of moving to the pahxeless left.

illegal mining? Is this come from outside actors? Is this something of the gangs of NARCO

terrorism? What's driving this, the president is now speaking out against it again?

Well, John, there's really a broader story here and it has to do with Ecuador's wealth,

mineral wealth and natural wealth, you know, as well as the encroachment of criminal actors.

And it used to be that the big resources that was exploited in Ecuador was oil and the

mineral wealth was, which was, pardon, in the south, was not so much of focus. And so under

that, you had a big debate about interlareas like the Yusunni National Park, whether that

would be developed for oil and that has gone forward in many different ways. At the end of

the Korean administration, you had decisions to basically revamp the Ecuadorian constitution

and laws to make a mining a little bit more economically viable. And so from that point,

the Chinese and other countries, but especially the Chinese under Ecuadorian, they have come in.

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