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By Rob Gray We here at Gran Roca Farm are seriously committed to farming sustainably. As 2016 has come to a close, we wanted to look back and evaluate our “sustainability progress” and see how we were doing. But first we needed to document where we started. Going back historically to the 1930s, the land...
To understand what’s at stake in next month’s presidential election, it’s important to first consider Rafael Correa’s enormous impact on Ecuador. The election will be, in large part, a referendum on his presidency. It’s also important to understand that Correa’s former vice president and heir apparent, Lenin Moreno, could steer the country on a dramatically...
When I worked on the staff of my university daily — ah, those many years ago — I was editor of a feature called the “Bitch Box.” There was an actual box in the newspaper office where students could drop their hand-written (how quaint) complaints about anything that bothered them. I would compile them, respond...
Rafael Correa is a megalomaniac, a loud-mouth, a control freak, a religious fanatic, the architect of a nanny state, a muzzler of free speech, and a court-packer. He is, by turns, intolerant, insulting, insensitive, paranoid, condescending and thin-skinned. He is also the best president Ecuador has had in decades, possibly since Eloy Alfaro at the...
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