In Ecuador, Indigenous and environmental activists demonstrated against state-run oil company Petroecuador Wednesday, after it failed to comply with a court order to shut down gas flares in the Amazon. The flares burn off gas created during oil production. This is Indigenous activist Nancy Pilatuña.

Nancy Pilatuña: “There’s groups that are at the brink of extermination, polluted rivers and polluted water sources that affect city folk, as well. It’s not an isolated reality. … If the Amazon is destroyed, then it will affect all of the Ecuadorian people.”