As murder rates soar, Daniel Noboa plans high-security jails in remote areas. But local communities are determined to save their ancestral lands and a fragile, unique ecosystem
The construction site for the new maximum-security prison in Bajada de Chanduy, Ecuador, showing the extent of the works last month, as the forest is cleared and excavators level the ground. Tropical dry forest is one of Ecuador’s most endangered habitats.The construction site for the new maximum-security prison in Bajada de Chanduy, Ecuador, showing the extent of the works last month, as the forest is cleared and excavators level the ground.
However, just a few metres from the path is a large construction site, where the forest has already been cleared. There, workers are building a new maximum-security prison, one of many election promises made last year by the hardline Félix Adán de la Cruz Rivera, president of Juntas del Pacífico, says the comunas lost the land in 1995 after a member used it asto obtain a loan – something that would be illegal today. During a banking crisis in the 1990s, when several financial institutions had to be bailed out, the state acquired the land.Police escort demonstrators in Santa Elena, with a banner reading ‘no prison’, protesting at President Daniel Noboa’s plan to site a jail near them.
This would also open up the forest to hunters and animal traffickers seeking rare bird species, such as the red-faced parrot or Pacific parakeet, says Camacho.Get a different world view with a roundup of the best news, features and pictures, curated by our global development teamowever, not everyone in the comunas is against the project. De la Cruz Rivera says he signed an agreement with SNAI and various government ministries in July, agreeing to the project in return for various benefits.
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