17 de septiembre de 2013

Señor Economista Rafael CorreaPresidenteRepública del Ecuador

Estimado Señor Presidente,

Como académicos preocupados y autores de muchos países, estamos escribiendo para apoyar la iniciativa del Ecuador de no extraer petróleo del Yasuní-ITT.

Como miles de otros ciudadanos del mundo, miramos esta iniciativa como un paso pionero en la lucha internacional por una civilización pospetrolera. Nos ha inspirado la determinación de los ciudadanos ecuatorianos que están rejuveneciendo la iniciativa ante su decisión de abandonarla.

En este sentido, estamos extremadamente preocupados de que su gobierno esté reprimiendo las voces de la mayoría de los ecuatorianos que continúan apoyando la propuesta Yasuní. Entendemos que se podría estar bloqueando la posibilidad de que haya una consulta popular sobre esta cuestión, que la libertad de expresión estaría siendo coartada, y que el ejercicio del derecho de los estudiantes de disentir está siendo amenazado con la expulsión de sus colegios.

Continuaremos siguiendo el debate en Ecuador con la esperanza de que una solución en democracia a este tema pueda ser encontrada, y que la propuesta de dejar el petróleo en el subsuelo en el ITT, así como el respeto de los derechos de los pueblos indígenas, no muera.

Atentamente,

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Elmar AltvaterProfessor EmeritusFree University of BerlinGERMANY

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Susanna B. HechtProfessor of Regional Development and Environmental AnalysisUniversity of California, Los AngelesMember, Institute for Advanced Study, PrincetonAuthor, The Scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost Paradise" of Euclides da CunhaUS

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Nancy FraserLoeb Professor of Philosophy and PoliticsNew School for Social ResearchAuthor, Scales of Justice: Reimagining Political Space in a Globalizing WorldUS

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Arturo EscobarProfessor of AnthropologyUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel HillAuthor, Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third WorldUS

Chanthana BanpasirichoteCenter for Peace and Conflict StudiesChulalongkorn UniversityTHAILAND

Donald MacKenzieFellow of the British AcademyAuthor, Material MarketsUK

Raj PatelUniversity of California, BerkeleyAuthor, The Value of NothingUS

Prof. Dr. Norman PaechProfessor of Law University of HamburgGERMANY

Patrick BondSenior ProfessorUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal, DurbanAuthor, Politics of Climate JusticeSOUTH AFRICA

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Harriet FriedmannProfessor Emerita of SociologyUniversity of TorontoAuthor, Food Regimes: International Political Economy of FoodCANADA

David M. DriesenUniversity Professor of LawSyracuse UniversityAuthor, The Economic Dynamics of Environmental LawUS

Dr. Eko Teguh ParipurnoEditor, Datang Gali dan Pergi: Potret Penutupan Tambang di IndonesiaINDONESIA

Barbara Harriss-WhiteSenior Research Fellow and Emeritus Professor of Development StudiesOxford UniversityUK

Philip McMichaelProfessor of Development SociologyCornell UniversityUS

Christoph GoergProfessor of Environmental GovernanceUniversity of KasselGERMANY

Stephen GudemanProfessor of AnthropologyUniversity of MinnesotaAuthor, Conversations in Colombia: The Domestic Economy in Life and TextUS

Dr. Ulrich DuchrowProfessor of Systematic TheologyUniversity of Heidelberg GERMANY

Rev. Daniel DalePresidentChicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin AmericaUS

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Noel CastreeProfessor of GeographyManchester UniversityUK

Frederique Apffel-MarglinVisiting Professor, Wesleyan UniversityCo-Editor, Decolonizing Knowledge: From Development to DialogueUS

Joel KovelAuthor, The Enemy of NatureUS

David Barkin Vice Presidente, Sociedad Mesoamericana de Economia EcologicaUniversidad Autonoma Metropolitana MEXICO

George CaffentzisAuthor, In Letters of Blood and Fire: Work, Machines and the Crisis of CapitalismUS

Steffen Böhm ProfessorEssex Sustainability InstituteUniversity of EssexCo-editor, Upsetting the Offset: The Political Economy of Carbon MarketsUK

Judith CarneyProfessor of GeographyUniversity of California, Los AngelesAuthor, In the Shadow of SlaveryUS

Prof. Dr. Helge PeukertUniversity of ErfurtGERMANY

Sarah BrackingProfessor of International DevelopmentManchester UniversityUK

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Robin BroadProfessorSchool of International ServiceAmerican UniversityUS

Christof ScherrerDirectorInternational Center for Development and Decent WorkUniversity of KasselGERMANY

Louise FortmannProfessorUniversity of California, BerkeleyAuthor, Participatory Research in Conservation and Rural Livelihoods: Doing Science TogetherUS

Prof. Dr. Birgit MahnkopfBerlin School of Economics and LawGERMANY

Bram BuscherAssociate Professor of Environment and Sustainable DevelopmentInstitute of Social Studies Erasmus UniversityTHE NETHERLANDS

Eduardo CanelAssociate Professor Center for Research on Latin America and the CaribbeanYork University Author, Barrio Democracy in Latin AmericaCANADA

Kathleen McAfeeAssociate Professor of International RelationsSan Francisco State UniversityUS

Anna ZalikAssociate Professor of Environmental StudiesYork UniversityCANADA

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Joel WainwrightAssociate Professor of GeographyOhio State UniversityAuthor, Decolonizing Development: Colonial Power and the MayaUS

Rob FletcherAssociate Professor of Environment and DevelopmentUniversity for Peace, Ciudad ColonCOSTA RICA

Geoff MannCenter for Global Political Economy Graduate Program Chair, Department of GeographySimon Fraser UniversityCANADA

Hans G. EhrbarAssociate Professor of EconomicsUniversity of UtahUS

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Salvatore Engel-DiMauroAssociate Professor of GeographyState University of New York, New PaltzEditor, Capitalism Nature SocialismUS

Dr. David SzablowskiAssociate Professor, Law and SocietyYork UniversityAuthor, Transnational Law and Local Struggles: Mining, Communities and the World BankCANADA

Dr. Anne TittorUniversity of BielefeldGERMANY

Dr. Rupert ReadDirectorMasters Programme in Environmental Sciences and HumanitiesUniversity of East AngliaUK

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Dr. Michael HauserAssociate ProfessorDepartment of Finance, Accounting and Statistics Vienna University of Economics AUSTRIA

Les LevidowSenior Research FellowOpen UniversityUK

Lorenzo PellegriniSenior LecturerInstitute of Social StudiesErasmus UniversityTHE NETHERLANDS

Pat DevineHonorary Research FellowUniversity of ManchesterAuthor, Democracy and Economic PlanningUK

Dr. Oliver SchweigerDepartment of Community Ecology Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZGERMANY

Sian SullivanSenior Lecturer in Environment and DevelopmentBirkbeck CollegeUniversity of LondonAuthor, Financialisation, Biodiversity Conservation and Equity: Some Currents and ConcernsUK

Isaac 'Asume' OsuokaPost-Doctoral VisitorFaculty of Environmental StudiesYork UniversityCANADA

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Michael K. DorseyNational Advisory CommitteeEnvironmental Protection Agency*US

Dr. Zeynep KadirbeyogluAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Political Science and International RelationsBogazici UniversityTURKEY

Gareth DaleSenior Lecturer in PoliticsBrunel UniversityUK

Christian SchollUniversity of LouvainAuthor, Two Sides of a Barricade: (Dis)order and Summit Protest in EuropeBELGIUM

PD Dr. Aram ZiaiHeisenberg Fellow in Political Science University of Kassel GERMANY

Stefania BarcaSenior ResearcherCenter for Social StudiesAuthor, Enclosing Water: Nature and Political Economy in a Mediterranean ValleyPORTUGAL

Dr. Laura HornUniversity of RoskildeDENMARK

Ezra HalleckAssistant Professor of MathematicsCity University of New YorkUS

Silke HeumannAssistant ProfessorInstitute of Social StudiesErasmus UniversityTHE NETHERLANDS

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Dr. Wolfgang Neef Technische Universität Berlin GERMANY

Dr. Carl MiddletonFaculty of Political ScienceChulalongkorn UniversityTHAILAND

Dr. Matthias CuntzHelmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZGERMANY

Claudio CattaneoAssociate LecturerUniversità Carlo CattaneoITALY

Dr. Sandro PuetzResearch ScientistHelmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ GERMANY

Doro WieseLecturer in Comparative Literature and Gender StudiesUtrecht UniversityTHE NETHERLANDS

Martin WiemersHelmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ GERMANY

Joanna CabelloCo-author, No REDD: A ReaderPERU

Jutta KillCo-author, Trading Carbon: How it Works and Why it is ControversialGERMANY

Elisabeth GschaiderAuthor, Kairo HeuteAUSTRIA

Christian MayGoethe University, Frankfurt am MainGERMANY

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Tamra GilbertsonAuthor, Carbon Trading: How it Works and Why it FailsSPAIN

Benjamin StephanResearch FellowCenter for Globalisation and GovernanceUniversity of HamburgGERMANY

Dr. Ruth MakoffHonorary Research Fellow in PhilosophyUniversity of East AngliaUK

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Nancy DuxburySenior ResearcherCenter for Social StudiesUniversity of CoimbraPORTUGAL

Christian MoellmannUniversity of KasselGERMANY

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Josep de TrincheriaHamburg University of TechnologyGERMANY

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Melissa CheckerAssociate Professor of Urban StudiesQueens CollegeCity University of New YorkUS

Karin WaltherBewegungsakademieGERMANY

Torsten KrauseCenter for Sustainability StudiesLund UniversitySWEDEN

Christoph OmannUniversity of ViennaAUSTRIA

Nicholas HildyardCo-author, The Politics of Industrial AgricultureUK

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Larry LohmannAuthor, El Mercado de Carbono: La Neoliberalizacion del ClimaUS

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Dr. Wolfgang FellnerInstitute for the Environment and Regional DevelopmentVienna University of Economics and BusinessAUSTRIA

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