The El Niño Phenomenon, like the 2016 earthquake, the price of raw materials, then the Covid pandemic, drug violence, and now again the El Niño phenomenon, are hitting Ecuador but especially the province of Esmeraldas, which is the province that experiences the most severe environmental and human deterioration in Ecuador,
Ecuador is experiencing the worst economic, ecological, economic, political, and social deterioration in South America. In this ecological deterioration, the most affected provinces are Esmeraldas, those in the Amazon, those in mining areas, and those along the coast in general, which are experiencing global warming, floods, and droughts, as well as polluting tourism, overexploitation of the sea, forests, mangroves, the invasion of zones or areas protected by settlers, loggers, African palm, illegal mining, shrimp farms, or drug trafficking
Emeraldas has 8 nature reserves, but the shrimp industry has assaulted the mangroves, the timber and African palm industry has assaulted the forests, the tourism industry, the beaches, the oil industry, the city of Esmeraldas with its oil port, its refinery, the heavy transport industry, especially wood, fuel and products for import and export, by the commercial port, by tourist transport, which uses the highways. All these companies have stolen in this province, the businessmen have paid bad wages, they have not provided job stability, they have not employed the Afro-Esmeraldeños, or the indigenous people, they do not pay the Esmeraldeños a single dollar for the barrel of oil that comes out of Esmeraldas, or for the crude that is refined and pollutes the air, they do not pay a single dollar of their profits for the destruction of the mangroves, and the contamination of the sea with antibiotics, oils and fuels, which come out from the shrimp farms, nor for the felling of the mangroves, which are a protected area in Ecuador, does not pay a single dollar of the profits for the contamination with plastics, garbage, and sewage in the tourist areas, they do not pay a single dollar for the contamination with mercury in the rivers, where gold is extracted illegally, they do not pay with a single dollar of their profits for deforestation and the contamination with chemicals or pesticides of the soils and rivers in the African palm plantations.
Since the 40s, when the so-called banana boom began with the arrival of UNITED FRUIT, they have not paid a single dollar of their earnings for deforestation, the transport of wood, fuel, or products to or from the port, they have not paid a single dollar for the use of nets, boats, and volume of fishing, nor for the illegal capture of fish, crustaceans or more products in times of closure, nor for fines for illegal fishing and gathering or hunting, they do not pay a single dollar for the trafficking of fuel, gas, food and to Colombia, or drugs, nor do they pay a single dollar of their earnings for deforestation and devastation of forests.
This payment should go to education, health, school lunches and breakfasts and for the elderly or chronically ill prostrate, for reforestation, the protection of water basins, forests, beaches, and marine areas, of the Galera San Francisco Reserves, of Muisne mangroves, the Cayapas Mataje Reserve, La Golondrinas, Cotacachi Cayapas, and Mache Chindul, for the training of health, environmental protection, cultural protection promotors in order to finance their work throughout the province of Esmeraldas, in each school, school, university, medical clinic, health sub-center, port, beach, to finance community ecotourism, intelligent tourism of students, researchers, or volunteers, the reforestation of forests, or riverbanks of this province. Companies such as Botrosa, Robalino, Codesa, shrimp companies such as El Rosario, and tourism companies such as Decámeron and other similar ones, the refinery, the oil, commercial, and fishing ports, do not have a tax of at least 25 percent of their profits, to finance education, food for students, the elderly and bedridden people, medicine for people who live in protected areas and neighboring towns and to protect the biodiversity and cultural diversity that exists in them, nor for medical attention and medicines, or to finance the work of health promoters, tour guides, protectors of endangered species, rangers, beach guards and rescuers, members of civil defense, or protectors of the Pacific Ocean against the province. This looting of Esmeraldas includes labor exploitation, poor wages, lack of employment, plagues, earthquakes, the El Niño and La Niña phenomenon, poor health and education of the population, the loss of domestic sources of food, poor health, educational, road infrastructure, corruption, poor application of the law and justice, the use of illness and medicine, doctors, to expand the market for medicines, teachers who encourage emigration, dishonesty, which is added to health problems, the irrational exploitation of natural and brutal resources of the population.
For centuries, Esmeraldas has turned its mangroves, forests, neighborhoods, and ports into loot for the rich, or transnational drug trafficking, the state bureaucracy of justice, the police, and the military, thanks to its proximity to Colombia, the Galapagos, and Panama by sea, the main places through which drugs now transit from Ecuador to Europe and North America.
These are the reasons why Esmeraldas is now one of the 7 most dangerous places on PLANET EARTH, for human beings.
